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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 10.

TUESDAY, 29TH APRIL, 1890.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT

(The Honourable FRANCIS FLEMING, C.M.G.).

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

the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER),

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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

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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 PHINEAS RYRIE, (on account of sickness).

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 16th instant, were read and confirmed. The QUEEN'S Warrant for the appointment of the Honourable N. G. MITCHELL-INNES to be a Member of the Legislative Council so long as he performs the duties of Registrar General in this Colony having been received, he was duly sworn and took his seat as a Member of the Council.

REPORTS. The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Blue Book for 1889, the Police Report for 1889, the Report of the Botanical and Afforestation Department for 1889, Registrar General's Returns of Births and Deaths for 1889, Mortality Statistics for 1889, Report of the Superin- tendent of the Fire Brigade for 1889, and also the Report of the Observatory Commission.

VOTES REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minutes by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government :-

C.S.0. 628 of LS90.

C. O. Desp.

88 of 1890.

C.$.0.

640 of 1890.

C.8.0.

#78 of 1890.

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.

(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-Ün, 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.