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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 22.

SATURDAY, 14TH DECEMBER, 1889, NOON.

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).

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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-Innes). the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL Brown).

PHINEAS RYRIE.

WONG SHING.

ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER,

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).

The Council met pursuant to notice.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 4th instant, were read and confirmed.

REPORTS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the Reports of the Finance Committee, dated respectively the 4th and 9th instant, (Nos. 12 and 13).

OFFICIAL SALARIES.—Mr. MACEWEN, pursuant to notice, made the following motion, and addressed the Council,-

That the Report of the Committee on the question of Official Salaries be laid on the table. Mr. CHATER seconded and addressed the Council.

His Excellency the Governor then laid on the table the Report referred to, and addressed the Council.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL, 1888.-The Acting Colonial Secretary read the following Report of the Finance Committee on this Bill:-

"The Committee having considered this Bill, recommend that the same be reported without amend-

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The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.

Bill reported without amendment.

The Acting Colonial Secretary then moved the third reading of the Bill.

The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question--put and passed.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do

pass.

Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 33 of 1889.

THE APPROPRIATION BILL, 1890.-The Acting Colonial Secretary read the following Report of the Finance Committee on this Bill:-

"The Committee having considered this Bill, recommend that the same be reported as amended." The Council then went into Committee on the Bill.

Bill reported with amendments.

The Standing Orders being suspended, the Acting Colonial Secretary moved the third reading of the Bill.

The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and passed.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance 34 of 1889.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Governor then adjourned, the Council until Wednesday, the 18th instant,

at 3 P.M.

Read and confirmed, this 18th day of December, 1889.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils,

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX,

Governor.