At the Meeting of the Council, held in the Council Room, 17, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, on Monday,' the 17th Sept., 1877, at 9 o'clock a.m.
Present—Messrs. E. H. Lavers (Vice-Chairman), in the chair, G. J. W. Cowie, P. G. Hiibbe, J. Bell Irving, C. W. Sieg: fried, and the Secretary.
The Minutes of the previous meeting are read and confirmed, and passed for Cash Statement for week ending 15th inst. is submitted for inspection, and cheques for sundry accounts are signed.
New Cemetery Road. communication from Consular Body, reporting the result of an application made at instance of Council to the Taotai, to issue a proclamation forbidding Chinese from depositing coffins on the New Cemetery Road; and requesting that a delegate from the Gouneil should meet the Chehsien and another mandarin, who had been deputed to enquire into the matter at the Consulate office, at 10 o'clock that morning, for the purpose of accompanying them over the road.
The Secretary is ordered to attend at the hour appointed.
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