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SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL.-The Colonial Treasurer moved the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to authorise the Appropriation of a Supplementary Sum of Four hundred and Eighty-one thousand Three hundred and Thirty-five Dollars and Thirty-five Cents, to defray the Charges of the Year 1899.

The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.--The Honourable R. M. GRAY and the Honourable Dr. Ho KAI were appointed members of the Public Works Committee vice the Honourable E. R. BELILIOS, resigned, and the Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD, absent.

ADJOURNMENT.—The Council then adjourned until Monday, the 16th July, 1900, at 3 p.m.

HENRY A. BLAKE, Governor.

Read and confirmed, this 16th day of July, 1900.

R. F. JOHNSTON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.