Minutes of the Extraordinary Meeting of the above-named Corporation, held at) the City Hall, Hongkong, at nyon on the 16th January, 1890.
Present were:—Mr. W. H. Forbes (in the chair), Messrs. H. L. Long ig w.
Brodie, Hon. J. J. Keswick, B. Layton, A. P. MacEwen, Messrs. S. C. Michaelsen,
D. R. Sassoon, G. E. Noble (Chief fuses, L.' Poesnecker, H. Hoppius, Manager), Directors; Messrs. C. D. Bot-tolley, J.S. Lapraik, H. N. Mody, J. Moffat, C. Ozorio, TI. Just, P. Jordan, G. Stewart, S. Hancock, K. A. Chinoy, W. H. Young, C.F. Carvalho, C. J. Gonsalves, W. H. Gaskell, D. McCulloch, Hon. C. P. Chater, A. McConnachie, D. H. Mackintosh, A. G, Stephen, D. Ezekiel, G. T. Veitch, H. T. S. n, E. Georg, F. Henderson, A. W. Maitland, G. de Cham-beaux, R. Lyall, N. J. J. Ezra, S. 1. Danby.
The Chief Manager, Mr. G. E. Noble, having read the notice convening the meet he Chairman ssid—Gentlemen, you have heard the notice convening this extraordinary meeting read, and as this matter is of such, paramount' importance to the Bank, I take it that you will all be in favour of accepting the Ordinance recently passed by the Governor in Council, as it is mar festly so much to our advantage. The condition that the Home authorities have imposed upon us for agreeing to amend our Ordinance was that we should give security numbers were greater and in some respects the corps was more efficient than it You are doubtless aware that we have been was now; but all round, it was in about trying for years to get our Ordinance as good a condition as it had been since amended, and we are greatly indebted to he joined it, except as regards numbers. ELE. the Governor for assisting us towards Passing on to refer to the recent sham the successful accomplishment of this obfight, the speaker said it was with ject. (Applause). With these remarks, I out doubt the best hey had ever had. In to propose as a resolution the sham fights in the olden days there was "That the following Ordinance, passed very little attempt on the part of anyone by the Legislative Council on the 20th november last, and assented to by HE. to make the fight a real one, and the greater proportion of the men had not the the Governor on the 27th November, be slightest idea of what was going on at all. accepted by the shareholders.
On this occasion, if there were mistakes No 29 oF 1889. made, at all events there was right through An Ordinance enacted by the Governor the corps an attempt on the part of every of Hongkong, by and with the advice and man to do his best and make it really a consent of tire Legislative Council thereof, fight; and once they reached that stage it to amend The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was merely a matter of improvement, for Ordinance. they were on the right road. Passing on Wiuuiaw Des Varvx. to sot: to bu being Ranger ey ole corps, the speaker said the principal thin; Whereas it is expedient to amend The (27th November, 1880,] wanted in the Light. Horse was numbers. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance: As he had often said before, there were a Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong-great number of riding men in the place kong, by and with the advice and consent who thought they knew pretty well all Legislative Council thereof, as fol-that was necessary to be known and lows dish if thay wars aide to dilo encoun oouiey 1.—In the interpretation of this Ordin-that was all that was wanted, as in the ance the expression Ps nicipal Ordinance event of a disturbance here the Light Horse shall mean The Hongkong and Shanghai would be wanted to entry despatches, etc, Bank Ordinance (No. 5 vf 1866).
Well, if @ man's ambition was to be a post-2.—The Proviso contained in Section 4, man, he was doing just as well in riding of the Principal Ordinance is hereby re-across country as doing anything else; but if his ambition was to be a soldier that pealed, and the said Section shall be read would not advance him in the least. Then as if the proviso next hereinafter contained had been inserted therein there were members of the Light Horse proviso hereby who were anxious to yo in for tent pegging, Provided alw tte., and who urged that in the army there was a lot of that kind of thing. That was tained shall be deemed to restrict the suid Company with the consent of the Commis-true, but in the army they were soldiers sioners for the time being for executing the who did these things, and did them to make themselves better soldiers. 1f the members Ottice of Lord High Treasurer (such confied in writing under the of the Light Horse would go in for their lioners or any drill and spend their spare time in tent two of them) from est: any Branch Banks or any Agencies for Exchange, De-pegging that would be a very good thi but these sports would not teach the men to be soldiers. It had been quite posit and Remittance at any place out of the Colony in conformity with the law of decided that the drill of the Light Horse must be cavalry drill and not mounted in-such place.
3.—This Ordinance shall not take effect fantry drill. If mounted infantry were needed it would be easy to mount such unless and until it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor that the of the infantry as could ride; but cavalry Court of Directors of the said Company has were wanted and it was impossible to make been duly authorised, under the provisions them in a month. With regard to the of Article 96 of the deed of Set ut of Artillery they had been showing up very the Company, to accept the same; such well of late, but although the shooting was fairly good there was no doubt it was not satisfaction tu be evidenced by a Nutitication of Proclamation under the haud of the as good as it might be and it did not receive the attention from all the members Governor, tu be published in the Hongkong of the battery that it should receive.
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