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(3:)

C.5.0.

2888 of 1887.

$240.

C.S.D.

2895 of 1887,

and

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of Two hundred and forty Dollars as an allowance for a Mandarin Teacher for Messrs. MAY and SERCOMBE SMITH, at the rate of $20 per month.

This was inadvertently omitted in the Registrar General's Estimates for 1888.

Government House, Hongkong, 27th February, 1888.

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G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

(4.)

The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of Twenty-four Dollars, as

ses, additional pay to the Gate-keeper of the Government Civil Hospital.

56 of 1988. 821.

The salary of the late Chinese Gate-keeper was $8 per month, the Superintendent recom- mended that an Indian should be employed at the salary of $10 per month.

Government House, Hongkong, 27th February, 1888.

The Colonial Secretary moved that these Minutes be referred to the Finance Committee. The Treasurer seconded.

Question--put and passed.

BILL ENTITLED THE TREES PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1888.-The Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill.

Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED THE RATING ORDINANCE, 1888.-The Treasurer moved the first reading of this

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED THE REGULATION OF CHINESE ORDINANCE, 1888.-The Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a second time.

The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.

Bill reported with amendments.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned to Monday, the 5th proximo, at 4 P.M.

Read and confirmed, this 5th day of March, 1888.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils.

G. WILLIAM Des Vœux,

Governor.