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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 20.

WEDNESDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER, 1889.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR G. WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G.).

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (A. LISTER).

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the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN Leach).

the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).

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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL Brown).

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PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

ALEXANDER Palmer MacEWEN.

James JohnstonE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).

The Council inet pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 20th instant, were read and confirmed.

VOTE REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Governor :—

C.5.0. 1516 of 1889,

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote the sum of Five hundred and Five $505. Dollars to provide for certain expenses in connection with the Nursing Staff of Sisters in the

Civil Hospital, viz. :--

Rations for 5 Sisters at $15 each per month, for 5 months,.. Wages of a Cook, 5 months,

Do. of an Amah, 5 months,

Do. of 2 Coolies, 5 months,

$375.00

40.00

30.00

60.00

$505.00

Government House, Hongkong, 2nd July, 1889.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this Vote be referred to the Finance Committee. The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.

VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee, dated the 20th instant (No. 10), and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed, viz.:-

Contingencies:

ESTABLISHMENTS. Treasury.

1:85 fisso. Expenses incurred in re-numbering houses in the villages,

C.S.O.

1889,

.$ 300.00

SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS. Botanical and Afforestation Department.

C.S.O.

1988 of 1889. Concreting a portion of the walks in the Public Gardens,...

C.S.O.

1350 of 1889.

(This amount will be taken from the unexpended balance of $2,500, voted in the Estimates for Tree planting which has become available owing to the failure of the Contractor to complete his agreement.)

Repairing damages caused to the Gardens by the rainstorm of the 29th and 30th

May last,

.$1,000.00

805.00

$1,805.00

Works and Buildings.

C.S.O. 2269 of 1889.

Supplementary vote for repairs to Buildings,

.$8,000.00

Roads, Streets and Bridges.

C.S.0.

1027 of 1889.

Supplementary vote for Road and Street Contingencies,

.$8,000.00