MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, At the Meeting of the Council held in the Board Room, No, 23, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, on Monday, the 24th July, 1882, at 4 o'clock p.m.
Present:—Messrs, W. ©. Ward (Chair. man), D. Brand, W. H. Dalgliesh, Be A. Gubbay, R. Mackenzie, G. J. Morrison, A. Myburgh, J. Roustan, and the Secretary, The Minutes of the previous meeting are read, confirmed, signed by the Chairman, and passed for publication.
Cash Statement, for week ended 22nd inst., is submitted, and cheques for sundry counts are signed, Liceuses—Liquor.—The Superintendent of Police reports that the Japanese occupants of Nos. 40, 83 and 84, Boone Road, ug foreign liquors without having obtained licenses from the Council.
Decided to have the men summoned before the Japanese Consul-General for breach of Municipal regulations, Proposed New Municipal Regulations. Attention is directed to the new Municipal Regulations as revised and amended by the Foreign Ministers at Peking, and it is auked whether it would not be better to continue with the Regulations of 1869 than to accept the new ones with the alterations and amendments,—After some discussion about the inconvenience of the clauses limiting the amount of license fees and the taxes on houses and land, and to the omission of the
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