Department, by advising with clients upon cases where, as superintendents of trade, Sir John Bowring needed my advice also, in my capacity of Laur tiviser to the Superintendency; - a capacity inseparable annexed to that of Attorney General of Hong Kong by a despatch received from the "East of Clarendon in the early part of 1857.

In dengins the computation this cast upon me, I was careful to protest against the extraordinain selection of an Feline polonial Secretar to be the organ through which it was East, and the rather because, wither then nor since, had any complaint on such a subject been comvenicated to me through the proper organ of the Superintendency of Trade, the secretare to the Experintendent. of my protest. but His bxcellencs afterwards verbally informed me that to had lodged complaint against

No notice was taken

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on that head

at the office of the Secretare

Foreign Affairs.

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State for

Your Lordship's decision respecting it has not been comorenicuted to me.

I have now the honor to inform

the same teling Colonial Secretary, having been, in May

your Lordship that the same

by the unanesicous vote.

lall

of a

a Committee of

Legislative

the

332

of Vegislations Corenci - Amanded and retested by

himself. – found quitting of

a went

dee

appreciation of the demands of his high. " and wisportant offices as Acting Colonial

the Legislation

of the ft and oth

547 Seame

The

Gazelle of the Button 1555 Maniculer of the 31 and Gazette of the 19 June containing the port and perending. the Committee.

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" Secretary, Kember

of

the Executive

proper

" Council, and Member "founcil ", and of an absence of that,

sensitivenes, which should have made ' hein, adone all other persons, forces and : avoid all positions of possible conflic : between his Public and Private duties. ' which, in the case of the Opicem Menspenter

sufficiently obvious : _ and that censure having been afterwards confirmed by the Legislative Council itself, contradicente, - found

'mere

Mynaiter of forencil

fagitle of the 17th Barty Bast f the

laining & Zurly.

21000

emine

nd heimself under the.

necessity of resigning those several offices question was that of his :

The case in question was

was

having, at the time when, and the place. where, the Grantee of the Monopoly perfecting his recognisances

with a view to

such Grant, agreed to accept of him in his (Dr. Bridges' s ) capacity of Barrister, the extraordinary yearly Retainer of Four Hundred

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