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No. 5.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 28th March, 1892.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (GEORGE THOMAS MICHAEL O'BRIEN, C.M.G.), Chairman.

the Attorney General, (WILLIAM MEIGH GOODMAN).

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the Registrar General, (JAMES Haldane Stewart LOCKHART).

the Colonial Treasurer, (NORMAN Gilbert Mitchell-Innes).

the Surveyor General, (FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER).

the Acting Harbour Master, (WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS). CATCHICK PAUL CHATER.

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

THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.

EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS.

ABSENT:

The Honourable JAMES JOHNSTONE KESWICK.

The Committee meet at the request of the Colonial Secretary.

The Minutes of the last Meeting held on the 14th March, 1892, were read and confirmed. Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Governor :-

WILLIAM ROBINSON.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Fifteen thousand Two hundred and Seventy-two Dollars and Eighteen Cents, ($15,272.18), being the difference between the aggregate of the expenditure to 31st of December, 1891, and of the amount provided in the Estimates for 1892, and the total Estimated Cost of the undermentioned Public Works:-

Estimated Cost,

Expenditure, 31st Dec., 1891.

Provided in 1892 Estimates.

Balance.

Slaughter House, Kowloon,

6,500

837.26

3,500

2,162.74

Civil Hospital Staff Quarters,

66,000

55,485.67

6,000

4,514.33

Quarters for Superintendent, Botanical and Afforesta-

tion Department,

20,100

15,093.34

2,500

2,506.66

District School, Saiyingpoon,

10,000

6,911.55

Nil.

3,088.45

Repairs to St. John's Cathedral,

3,000

Nil.

3,000.00

$ 15,272.18

C.5.0.

€18 of 1892.

Government House, Hongkong, 24th March, 1892. WILLIAM ROBINSON.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Two thousand Seven hundred and Thirty-three Dollars and Eleven Cents, ($2,733.11), being the difference between the aggregate of the amount spent up to the 31st of December, 1891, ($1,266.89 as against $4,000 estimated expenditure) on the Extension of the Cattle Depôt (Extraordinary Public Works No. 10) and of the amount voted for this work on the Estimates for 1892 ($6,000), and the total estimated cost of the work, viz., $10,000.

Government House, Hongkong, 19th March, 1892.

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