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No. 12.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 4th December, 1889.

PRESENT:

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

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the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).

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

the Captain Superintendent of Police, (WALTER MEREdith Deane).

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

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WONG SHING.

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PHINEAS RYRIE.

ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.

CATCHICK PAUL Chater.

James Johnstone Keswick, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING).

The Committee meet at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary,

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 27th ultimo, having been taken as read are confirmed.

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1888.-The Committee consider the Bill to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Two hundred and Ninety-five thousand and Eighty-seven Dollars and Ninety-nine Cents to defray the Charges of the Year 1888.

The Committee recommend that the Bill be reported without amendment.

ESTIMATES, 1890.-Laid before the Committee the Bill entitled An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding One Million Two hundred and Ninety-two thousand, Eight hundred and Fifteen Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1890.

next.

At the suggestion of Mr. RYRIE, the consideration of this Bill is postponed until Monday

The Committee is then adjourned until Monday, the 9th instant, at 3 P.M.

Laid before the Legislative Council on the 14th December, 1889.

Read and confirmed on the 14th December, 1889.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

A. LISTER, Chairman.