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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL No. 29.

FRIDAY, 13TH MAY, 1887.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM GORDON CAMERON, C.B., Administering the Government in the absence of His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, G.C.M.G. His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE

PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.

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

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the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD.)

the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.)

HENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

JOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SAS-

SOON, on leave).

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The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER), on duty.

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ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON,

on leave), on leave.

The Council met pursuant to notice.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 6th instant, were read and confirmed.

VOTE OF MONEY REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:—

C.S.O. 948 of 1887.

W. G. CAMERON.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $150 for the purpose of supplying to the Magistracy a Press for keeping Court Records, similar to one supplied in 1883.

Government House, Hongkong, 13th May, 1887.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this vote be referred to the Finance Committee. Captain THOMSETT seconded.

Question-put and passed.

PAPER.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid upon the table the following paper:-

Reclamation of, and building at, Causeway Bay (No. 27).

The Surveyor General moved that the question be referred for the consideration of the Public Works Committee of the Council, and that all the Members of the Council be invited to take part in it.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

OPIUM BILL.-The Officer Administering the Government informed the Council that a telegram had come into his hands stating that the Chinese Government had accepted, as an experiment and on trial, the recent proposals of a Member of this Council accepted by the Chamber of Commerce in con- nexion with the Opium Bill now before the Council, and that the Government was in communication,. by telegraph, with the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject.

BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELAting to Jurors.—On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Council went into Committee on this Bill.

Bill reported with amendments.