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No. 4.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 10th April, 1902.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G.), Chairman.

the Acting Attorney General, (ALFRED Gascoyne WISE).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON). the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.).

the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM).

ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN.

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

THOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD.

WEI YUK.

JAMES JARDINE BELL-IRVING.

JOHN THURBURN.

ABSENT:

The Honourable CATCHICK Paul Chater, C.M.G.

The Committee met at the request of the Colonial Secretary.

Read the following Minutes under the hand of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government

C.S.0. 703 of 1902.

C.S.O.

$24 of 1900.

C.S.0.

$17 of 1902.

W. J. GASCOIGNE.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand five hundred and eighty-six Dollars and Twenty Cents ($1,586.20) being a sum equal to the unexpended portion of the vote for 1901 for laying out Mountain Lodge grounds.

Government House, Hongkong, 21st March, 1902.

W. J. GASCOIGNE.

The Officer Administering the Governinent recommends the Council to vote a sum of One thousand and four hundred Dollars ($1,400), being a sum equal to the unexpended vote for 1901 for the construction of locked private letter boxes for the use of the General Post Office.

Government House, Hongkong, 4th April, 1902.

W. J. GASCOIGNE.

The Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote a sum of Four hundred and thirty-three Dollars and Thirty-two Cents ($433.32) to meet the cost of the rent of The Cliffs" for the two first months of the current year.

Government House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1902.

The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that the above votes be passed.

The Committee then adjourned.

Laid before the Legislative Council and adopted on the 30th April, 1902.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

A. M. THOMSON,

Chairman.