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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 15.

WEDNESDAY, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1909.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

(Sir FREDERICK JOHN DEALTRY LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.0.).

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).

the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER).

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

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the Registrar General, (ARTHUR WINBOLT BREWIN).

the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS Josepii Badeley). Dr. Ho KAI, M.B., C.M.G.

Mr. WEI YUK, C.M.G.

Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT.

Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE.

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Mr. MURRAY STEWART.

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ABSENT:

The Honourable the Officer Commanding the Troops, (Colonel CHARLES HENRY Darling,

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the Attorney General, (Sir HENRY SPENCER BERKELEY, Kt., K.C.).

Mr. WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON.

The Council met pursuant to adjournment.

The Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 27th August, 1909, were read and confirmed.

FINANCIAL MINUTE.-The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minute No. 39, and moved that it be referred to the Finance Committee:

No. 39.-Quarantine Station at Lai-chi-kok,

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

.$ 3,277.

REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee, dated the 27th August, 1909, and moved its adoption.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

LIQUOR LICENCES.-The Resolution for the increase of Fees for Licences payable under the provisions of the Liquor Licences. Ordinances, 1898-1908, was not proceeded with.

QUESTION. Mr. M. STEWART, pursuant to notice, asked the following question :-

Is it a fact that, as stated in the newspapers, a coolie was fined $25 at the Police Court for playing a dice game in the street, and that, in the same Court on the same day, fines amounting to less than half that amount were imposed in the case of a conviction for being drunk and disorderly in Morrison Hill Road, and umprovokedly assaulting and wounding Mr. Blowey by striking him several times on the head with a heavy stick?

The Colonial Secretary replied.