EVIDENCE ORDINANCE (AMENDMENT) BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Evidence Ordinance 1889.
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 that the Bill be read a third time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend The Wireless Tele- graphy Ordinance 1903.
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 that the Bill be read a third time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed.
MERCHANT SHIPPING AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill entitled An Ordinance further to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Question-put and agreed to.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
On the motion of the Colonial Treasurer seconded by the Attorney General considera- tion of the Bill was postponed.
PEAK TRAMWAY BILL-The Committee stage on the Bill entitled An Ordinance for authorizing the Construction of a Tramway within the Colony of Hongkong was not pro- ceeded with.
ADJOURNMENT. The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 20th May, 1909.
Read and confirmed, this 20th day of May, 1909.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
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