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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 29th April, 1890.

PRESENT:

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

the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN.

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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

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CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

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

The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.

ABSENT:

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

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 9th April, were read and confirmed.

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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 Two hundred Dollars, ($200), for an additional Clerk, and Interpreter of Indian and Malay languages, at the Harbour Department, from 1st May next, at a salary of $25 per month.

Government House, Hongkong, 14th April, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

(2.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of One hundred and Twenty Dollars, ($120), for House Allowance to the Compradore of the General Post Office.

Government House, Hongkong, 14th April, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

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(3.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Twenty-one Dollars and Seventy Cents, ($21.70), for the refund of the overcharged Municipal Rates at the erroneous valuation on two Tenements, Nos. 69 and 70, in the Village of Hok-Un, in the Kaulung Peninsula.

Government House, Hongkong, 11th April, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

(4.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of One hundred and Sixty Dollars, ($160), for the salary of a Shroff in the Money Order Office, from 1st of May, at $20 per month.

Government House, Hongkong; 14th April, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

(5.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Two hundred and Twenty-eight Dollars, ($228), as a gratuity to the Children of the late SOOPPRAMANI SOONDERAM, in consideration of his 25 years' service as Police Officer, Clerk and Interpreter in the Harbour Office.

Government House, Hongkong, 18th April, 1890.