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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 10.

FRIDAY, 22ND MAY, 1891.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT Major-General G. Digby Barker, C.B.

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (Walter MereditH DEANE, C.M.G.). the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

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the Surveyor General, (SAMUEL BROWN).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN GILBERT MITCHELL-INNES).

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the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).

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PHINEAS RYRIE.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK,

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

THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.

ABSENT:

The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 5th May, 1891, were read and confirmed.

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The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table. Bye-laws for licensing and regulating Common Lodging-Houses made by the Sanitary Board under sub-section 12 of section 13 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887 and sub-section Ď of section 1 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1890; and moved that these Bye-laws be approved of.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

VOTES REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-Read the following Minutes by their Excellencies the Governor and the Officer Administering the Government :-

C.S.O. 880 of 1891.

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253 of 1201.

C.8.0. 820 of 1891,

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Nineteen thousand Nine hundred and Eighty Dollars, ($19,980), for the Peak Water Supply.

The materials for this work having ärrived too late last year and the work could not be commenced before this year, the vote for 1890 was not expended, and a re-vote is now required.

Government House, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1891.

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand Two hundred and Twenty-nine Dollars, ($1,229), for general repairs to the Police Steam Launch No. 2, and providing a launch while the repairs are being executed.

Government House, Hongkong, 21st April, 1891.

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX,

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Ninety Dollars, ($90), for an allowance for a Chinese teacher to Mr. WAGGOTT, one of the Student Interpreters, appointed under Section II of the Scheme published in Government Notification No. 209 of 4th May, 1889, at the rate of $10 per month.

Government House, Hongkong, 8th April, 1891.

G. WILLIAM DES VEUX.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Ninety Dollars, ($90), for an allowance for a Chinese teacher to Mr. NOLAN, one of the Student Interpreters, appointed under Section II of the Scheme published in Government Notification No. 209 of 4th May, 1889, at the rate of $10 per month.

Government House, Hongkong, 16th April, 1891.