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J.H. HAAN
These were the following:
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II.
A Committee (the Defence Committee) "to consider any propositions laid before them for the defence, draining, lighting and general improvement of the Settlement", appointed on January 3, 1862.
A Committee (the Assessment Committee) "to assess the value of foreign property in concert with the Municipal Council", appointed September 8, 1862.
III. A subcommittee of members from the Defence Committee and the Assessment Committee "to consider the modifications (of the Land Regulations which had been proposed by the foreign consuls — JH) and to report upon them to the community", appointed September 8, 1862.
IV. A Committee "to confer with the Treaty Consuls, and recast the Land Regulations in some such form as may meet the support of the foreign and Chinese authorities", appointed March 31, 1863.
V.
The "Hongque Provisional Committee of Roads and Sanitary matters", appointed May 29, 1863 (Hongque, or Hongkew, was what was briefly called the American Settlement until it was merged with the British Settlement in 1863).
VI. The "Hongque Provisional Committee of Ways and Means", appointed May 29, 1863.
VII. The "Hongque Committee of Assessment", appointed September 21, 1863.
VIII. A Committee to study the possibilities of a Charter of Incorporation; appointed June 29, 1864.
IX. A Committee "to consider the method of government best adapted to the requirements of the community and that the interests of all classes be taken into consideration", appointed...