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No. 6.

103

C.S.0.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

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OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 9th April, 1890.

PRESENT:

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

the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER.)

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.

The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.

294 of 1690.

C.S.0.

611 of 1890.

ABSENT:

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

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 19th March, were read and confirmed.

Read the following Minutes 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 Nine hundred and Ninety-one Dollars, and Fifty-seven Cents ($991.57) being cost of repairing the Telegraph Cable between North Point and Kowloon-damaged by some vessel's anchor dragging various cables together and entangling them.

Government House, Hongkong, 28th March, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

(2.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of One thousand Nine hundred and Two Dollars, and Twenty-seven Cents ($1,902.27) to enable the Sanitary Board to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the recent Cattle Epidemic.

The sum asked for is thus made up :-

Compensation for Cattle and Fodder destroyed,

Slaughtering and disposal of carcasses,

Disinfecting and cleansing sheds,

Government House, Hongkong, 8th April, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

C.S.0.

19 of 1890.

(3.)

.$1,820.50 51.77 30.00

$1,902.27

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Thirty-four thousand Dollars ($34,000) for the purchase of Inland Lot No. 598 with the premises erected thereon, for use as a Police Station in lieu of No. 8 Station at Taipingshan.

Government House, Hongkong, 10th March, 1890.

After explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amounts be voted, and the purchase money in the Minute No. 3 be defrayed from premia on land sales.

The Committee is then adjourned sine die.

Laid before the Legislative Council on the 29th April, 1890.

Read and confirmed on the 29th April, 1890.

F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Clerk of Councils.

W. M. DEANE,

Chairman,