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No. 3.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 5th March, 1890.

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Mis. Serv.

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The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).

the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).

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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES, vice the

Honourable WALTER MEREDITH DEANE).

ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK, (vice the Honourable JOHN BELL-IRVING). HO KAI, M.B., C.M.

ABSENT:

The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER),

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PHINEAS RYRIE.

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

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 12th ultimo, having been taken as read, are confirmed.

(1.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-

ment:

F. FLEMING.

(1.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of 31890. Two hundred and Nine Dollars, as a gratuity to the daughter of the late Mr. J. Carneiro, in consideration of his 15 years' good service as Wardmaster in the Civil and Small-pox Hospitals. Mr. CARNEIRO was invalided and applied for pension, but did not live to enjoy it, as he died a few days after it was sanctioned.

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The above sum is equivalent to One year's pension of the deceased. Government House, Hongkong, 25th February, 1890.

After explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.

(2.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern-

ment :-

F. FLEMING,

(2.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of 5800. Fifty Pounds Sterling as remuneration to Colonel BEAUMONT for his report on the proposed

removal of the Bokhara rocks,

also

8100. One hundred dollars for the cost of his stay in Hongkong.

Government House, Hongkong, 26th February, 1890.

After deliberation, the Committee recommend that the papers be circulated for the perusal of Honourable Members.

The Committee is then adjourned sine die.

Laid before the Legislative Council on the 12th March, 1890.

Read and confirmed on the 12th March, 1890.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils.

W. M. DEANE,

Chairman.