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No. 11.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,

On the 29th September, 1904.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Officer Commanding the Troops, (Colonel LOUIS FAULKNER BROWN, R.E.).

the Colonial Secretary, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.), Chairman.

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the Attorney General, (ERNEST HAMILTON SHARP, K.C.).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (Lewis AUDLEY MARSH Johnston).

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the Registrar General, (ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN).

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the Director of Public Works, (PATRICK NICHOLAS HILL Jones).

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the Harbour Master, (Capt. LIONEL AUBREY WALTER Barnes-Lawrence, R.N. (ret'd). Ho KAI, M.B., C.M., C.M.G.

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ROBERT GORDON SHEWAN.

WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON.

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GERSHOM STEWART.

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ABSENT

The Honourable Sir C. P. CHATER, Kt., C.M.G.

The Committee met pursuant to summons.

Read the following Minutes under the band of His Excellency the Governor :--

C.8.0. No.

3938 of 1904,

M. NATHAN.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Two hundred, and fifty Dollars Extension. ($250) in aid of the vote Land Court, New Territory, Other Charges, for repairing the house- boat used by the Land Court Department as a branch office in the New Territory, which was damaged by the recent typhoon.

C.O.D. No.

5689 of 1903.

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Government House, Hongkong, 26th September, 1904.

M. NATHAN.

The Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of Five hundred Dollars ($500) in aid of the vote Botanical and Afforestation Department, Other Charges, for Taipingshan Gar- den-Levelling and laying out.

Government House, Hongkong, 26th September, 1904.

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

The Committee considered item by item the Bill entitled An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Five million eight hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred and seventy Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1905.

The Chairman addressed the Committee.

The several items in the Bill were approved.

The Committee then adjourned sine die.

Laid before the Legislative Council and adopted on the 6th October, 1904.

S. B. C. Ross,

Cierk of Councils.

F. H. MAY,

Chairman,

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