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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 21.

MONDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1891.

PRESENT:

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

The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

the Acting Attorney General, (ANDREW JOHN LEACH).

the Registrar General, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART).

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

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the Acting Surveyor General, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER). PHINEAS RYRIE.

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

THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.

ABSENT:

The Honourable CATCHICK PAUL CHAter.

JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.

The Council net pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 26th October, 1891, were read and confirmed.

VOTE-REFERRED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Acting Colonial Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the following Minute and moved that it be referred to the Finance Committee:

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C. O. Desp. or if 381,

G. DIGBY BARKER.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Six hundred Dollars, ($600), to cover the increase to the sulary of the Harbour Master, so as to bring his salary from $4,800 to $5,400 per annum, from 1st January last, as approved by the Secretary of State.

Government House, Hongkong, 27th October, 1891.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

VOTES PASSED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.-The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee, dated the 26th October, (No. 11), and moved that the following Votes referred to therein be passed, viz. :-

A sum of Six hundred and Seventy-nine Dollars and Twenty-nine Cents, for the purchase of a Nordenfelt Gun on tripod mounting, and 1,000 rounds of ammu- nition,....

..$ 679.29

C.S.0.

2237 of 1891.

A sum of Six hundred and Forty Dollars, to provide for the Salaries and Uniform

for 4 Chinese Constables for Cemeteries,....

.$ 640.00

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Votes passed.

The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD gave notice that at next meeting of Council he would move the following resolution:-

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That in view of the opinions expressed at the meeting of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography held in London on 11th August last the Government appoint a Commission composed of medical men to investigate and report on the whole subject of Quarantine and Quarantine Regulations and as to the advisability or otherwise of retaining Section 25 in the proposed new Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Merchant Shipping. The Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD gave notice that at next meeting of Council he would ask the following questions:-

1. As the place formerly set apart to be a Lazaretto viz. "That part of the northern shore of

Stone-cutters' Island which is bounded and contained by a line of yellow posts" has been abandoned, the hulk "Hygeia" having as stated in this Council by the Honourable the