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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 7.

FRIDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1886.

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PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.,

Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G.

His Honour the Chief Justice, (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.)

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART.)

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the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD.)

the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.).

the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)

HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.

PHINEAS RYRIE.

FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON.

WONG SHING.

ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON,

on leave).

JOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave).

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 19th instant, are read and confirmed.

VOTES OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:--

W. H. MARSH.

(1.)

Mis. Doc. 1249 of 1886.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a transfer of the sum of $253 from the Registrar General's Department to the Treasury, to defray the expenses of collecting Municipal Rates at Villages.

This service which has hitherto been performed by the Registrar General's Department is now carried on by the Treasury; therefore a transfer vote is required, viz.:—

Allowance to Collector,

Salary of a Coolie, ....

Petty expenses, .....

Government House, Hongkong, 26th November, 1886.

W. H. MARSH.

(2.)

$120.00

108.00

25.00

$ 253.00

C.S.D.

2672 of 1886,

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $12,176 to pay the expenses incurred in making good the damages caused by the rain-storm of the 15th of July last, to roads, streets, bridges, and sewers.

In former years the practice has been to assess the damages at the time, and apply for a supplementary vote. This year, however, this practice has been deviated from, and the alter- native adopted of seeing how far the ordinary votes for Public Works could be made to meet this extraordinary demand, leaving the balance only, which could not be met from ordinary sources, to be voted as Extraordinary Expenditure.