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NOTICE OF QUESTION.-Mr. WHITEHEAD gave notice that at the next meeting of Council he would ask the following question : –

In view of Your Excellency having received several applications for an increase of salary from officers in the service of the Government and your proposal to refer these to a Committee for consideration and report, will the Government lay upon the table a statement shewing the total cost of or expenditure on the administration of the Government, including pensions, exchange compensation, and all other allowances, during the years 1895 and 1896 separately? BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE SUITABLE LATRINE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE PUBLIC.-The Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question---put and agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

Council resumed and Bill reported without amendment.

The Attorney General moved the suspension of the Standing Rules and Orders.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAWs relating to THE PRO- TECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS.-The Attorney General moved that the Bill be re-committed.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

Council in Committee on the Bill.

Council resumed and Bill reported with amendments.

The Attorney General moved the suspension of the Standing Rules and Orders.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time.

Question put that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned sine die.

Read and confirmed, this 28th day of June, 1897.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils.

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.