Sessional_Paper_1887-1888 — Page 97

No. 32.

#7

7/2/34.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF TIE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 17th December, 1888.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.), Chairman.

the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).

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the Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE),

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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER Meredith Deane),

C.S.0.

3015 of 1885.

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PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

JOHN BELL-IRVING.

BENDYSHE LAYTON, (vice the Honourable ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN).

The Committee meet at the request of the Colonial Secretary.

The Report of the proceedings of the last Meeting, held on the 12th instant, having been taken as read, is confirmed.

Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government :--

FREDERICK STEWART.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $1,600, being the balance of the vote passed in May, 1887, for $9,600, for the extension of the Cattle Market, of which only $8,000 were expended in 1887.

Government House, Hongkong, 17th December, 1888.

After explanation by the Surveyor General, the Committee recommend that this amount be voted.

The Committee then adjourn sine die.

Frederick Stewart,

Chairman.

Laid before the Legislative Council on the 2nd January, 1889.

کمرے کے دریا

Read and confirmed on the 2nd January, 1889.

Fusion Bett.

Clerk of Councils.