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No. 24.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 8th December, 1890.

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PRESENT:

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

the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD).

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the Acting Colonial Treasurer, (HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, C.M.G.). the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-Innes). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.

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Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.

ABSENT

THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.

The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.

C. O. Desp. 212 of 1890.

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

The Minutes of the last Meeting held on the 24th November were read and confirmed. Read the following Minute under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-

F. FLEMING.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Two thousand Eight hundred and Eighty Dollars, ($2,880), as a compassionate allowance for the benefit of the children of the late Colonial Treasurer and Postmaster General, Mr. ALfred LISTER.

Government House, Hongkong, 27th November, 1890.

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

The Committee is then adjourned to Thursday, 11th December.

Laid before the Legislative Council on the 15th December, 1890.

Read and confirmed on the 15th December, 1890.

F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Clerk of Councils.

W. M. DEANE,

Chairman,