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We the undersigned unofficial members of the Legislative Council of Hons. Kong desire to record our protest against the addition by His Excellency Sir John Bowring, of another official member to the Legislative Council, by his unexpected nomination of the Auditor General - Personally
we can have no
objection
to the gentleman so appointed, whose abilities & official position might give him a to a seat in the Council whenever a va
occurs by any
one
of those
officers
a fair
claim vacancy whose func
tions do not necessarily demand their
presence in Council.
The grounds of
ORASU
objection are,
that, in contravention of what was under- settled limitation of the number
stood to be a
of the Legislative Councillors at the
re-organi-
sation of the council in 1857, Sir John Bow= ring has since caused to be added two offical body in which the
Foth Tris members to a
W
is now
official seats County, Sandwwere already twice the number of the
official
ones _ This disproportion increased to light against Three, and what consequently might be considered as to a certain extent the exposition of the opinions rwiches of this wealthy rinfluential com- munity is altogether lost this
pre= ponderance.
by
The history of the Legislative Coun
cit