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PAPER.-The Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, laid upon the table the Report of the Captain Superintendent of Police for 1888. (No.).

BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FOR THE INCORPORATION OF THE DIRECTOR, in Hongkong, OF THE BERLIN LADIES' MISSION FOR CHINA.-The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill, and addressed the Council.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED THE PRISON AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1889. The Acting Attorney General moved the first reading of this Bill, and addressed the Council.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a first time.

BILL ENTITLED THE STONE CUTTERS' ISLAND ORDINANCE, 1889.-The Acting Attorney General moved the second reading of this Bill, and addressed the Council.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a second time.

The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.

Bill reported without amendment.

The Attorney General then moved that the Bill be read a third time.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 11 of 1889.

BYE-LAWS UNDER "THE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE, 1887."-The Colonial Secretary, pursuant to notice, moved that the Bye-Laws made by the Sanitary Board, under The Public Health Ordinance, 1887, dated the 13th February, 1889, which were laid on the table at the last meeting, be approved.

Question-put and passed.

ADJOURNMENT.-The Council then adjourned to Thursday, the 14th instant, at 4 p.m.

Read and confirmed, this 22nd day of March, 1889.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils.

G. WILLIAM DES VOUX,

Governor.