additional Mcumber to that Body.
The trecutive Council
من
at present constituted comists
7 4 Members_ He Governor,
斥
the Sieutenant Governor the
Military Commander of the
Forces and (provisionally) the Acting Colonial Secretary.
For Mary Mouth, the Military Commander of the Forces.
has been much more at Head : Quarters in Canton than in the
• Colony and the busince
Executive depend upon in together of the three
Members who
T
the
the
gathering
remaining
are meocurry uccessary
form a quoruin.
to
+
308
In a Colony like this where
illuen frequently incapacitates
from the discharge of our dutus, its
has
Munc
than once happeuch thać
ALCELLIALY to assemble
it has been mec:
the Council in the sick rooie of one
the
of its members, in order to get through ungent buinces of the Gorusment
the
the
"at
present moment the
Lieutenant foreure (the General
bein
in Canton) has appliche for
on
six weeks leave of abeuce ni tisk | Entificate which being granted deavis only two members of the Council in the Colony, siz- Angelf and the Acting Colonial Secretary-
And as regard suyself. for