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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 14.

FRIDAY, 30TH MAY, 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).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).

the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

the Acting Registrar General, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES). PHINEAS RYRIE.

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

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HO KAI, M.B., C.M.

ABSENT:

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The Honourable ALEXANder Palmer MACEWEN.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 16th instant, were read and confirmed.

Her Majesty's approval of the appointment of the Honourable P. RYRIE and the Honourable Ho KAI as Un-official Members of the Council having been received, they were duly sworn and took their seats as Members of the Council.

REPORTS.-The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Harbour Master's Report for 1889 and Reports by Honourable O. CHADWICK on the Water supply of Kowloon, the Sewerage of the Hill District, and the proposed distributary system of the water supply for the city of Victoria.

Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-

F. FLEMING.

(1.)

476 of 1890.

C.5.0. The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Eight thousand Dollars, ($8,000), for works in the Wongneichung Valley, inside the Race Course.

Government House, Hongkong, 20th May, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

(2.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Five hundred and Thirty-four Dollars, ($534), being additional sum required to defray the salaries and rations of Nursing Staff for the Civil Hospital, for six months of 1890, viz. :----

Additional Salaries: *--

1 Head Nurse, 6 months,

5 Nurses, (one new), 6 months,

$

60.00

360.00

1 Amah, 6 months,

24.00

$ 444.00

Rations for one more Nurse, 6 months,........

90.00

$

534.00

C.S.O.

1883 of 1889.

Government House, Hongkong, 20th May, 1890.

F. FLEMING.

(3.)

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of Two hundred and Thirty Dollars, and Eighty Cents, ($230.80), being expenses incurred in carrying out an experiment as to the possibility of successfully and economically cultivating in the Colony bovine vaccine lymph.

Government House, Hongkong, 21st May, 1890.