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The following is the text of the Petition prepared by the constifu- tional Reform · Association for public signature and despatch to the House of Commons:--
Petitian
for a more Eepresentative Form of Constitution in Hongkong.
To the Members of the House of
Commons of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ire- land in Parliament assembled.
The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Inhabitants of the Crown Coliny of Hongkong.
Showeth as follows:--
-The Colony a. Hongkong. situated in the China Seas, is one) fof the most valuable and important,
of the Crown Colonies,
2-It is 30 years since the Colony was founded in a barrea rock. which Was then the abode of a fow dahermen and pirates. To-day it is a Colany comprising not only the Island of Hongkong, but also part of the, mainland called Kowloon and the New Territories, the levelopment of which is expanding rapidly.
The population is over 090.009. and the Colony had a trade of 212 million pounds sterling clusive of bullica for the rear 1920. The Revenue, which I wholly derived from internal taxation, amounts to about 15' milion dol-, lars annually, of which 20 per cent, exclusive of the premia de-l rived from sales of Moon Land,, is contributed to the Imperial Government for Military purposes. |
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Furthermore, when the Rail road is completed from Canton to] Hankow there will be direct com- munication by rail from Hongkong | with all parts of China and alsɔ wit all the principal Capitals of Europe. thereby farreasing the Colony's commercial importance.
3--As a result of the receat Great War, in, which British sub- jects throughout the Empire con- tributed their quota in men and money. His Majesty's Government has decided that the component parts of the Empire should have a Igreater voice in the conduct of
their own local affairs,
We, your Petitioners, ask that the same principle may be extend- led to us in Hongkong, inasmuch as we accepted our due share of the common burden.
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mitted by those who framed the Constitution that the peculiar conditions obtaining in It is surely a hardship that a man Hongkong require that the fran- who would have had but the par chisc should be restricted, your liamentary and municipal vote if Petitioners feel that to restrict it he had remained in Great Britain to this extent is both necessary should be disfranchised en arrival and unjust, seeing that it has the in Hongkong, although by his pre-effect of depriving the great ma- sence here he is furthering Brit-
jority of Britons in this Colony of jish interests overstay. What justification can be offered for vote for the election of a re- presentative the Legislative thus penalizing his enterprise? Council.
4-Notwithstanding that all 5. Furthermore, the Unofficial Four Petitioners have a direct in-Members of Council are them. terest in the securing of efficiency selves in a hopeless and perman- in the Administration uffocal ent minority on the Legislative affairs, all but a small minority of Council, which consists of 14 Four Petitioners have voice Members, namely, 8 Official Mem-: whatever in the selection of thebers (including the Governor) and Members who sit in our sole locals Unofficial Members. Legislative body known as the It is decessary to add that the Legislative Council which, by its official Members are not free to enactments, controls the liberty vote according to their convictions i and property of the inhabitants of bat are liable to be deprived of this Colas; and whien, in the ab their seat on the Council for sence of a Municipal Council, dis- charges nearly all the functions voting contrary to the President's
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instructions. Accordingly, inas- usually performed by such a body much as the Governor or other At present there are four non-presiding Official absolutely con- Chinese Unofficial Members of
trols all the Oficial Votes, the Council, and two Chinese Unoff cial Members of Council. Of the Legislative Council, as at present constituted, though consisting non-Chinese Members of Council numerically of 14 Members, simply two are not elected at all but are carries into effect the Individual nominated by the Governor, whilst will and judgment of the Governor
or other presiding Official,
the other two non-Chinese Tinoff- cial Members of. Connell are each
6. The constitation of such a elected by a very limited co Council must seem strange indeed stituency, namely, in one case by to you who have for so long been the Laoficial Justices of the faccustomed to the idea of all Peace (a body appointed by the Members of your House being Governor) consisting now of some directly responsible to their con 180 persons, and in the other casestituents for their conduct and Tel. E.21. by the Members of the Chamber policy in Parliamentary affairs.
E.633. of Commerct, consisting now of
Petitioners Accordingly your K369. about 200 persons or firms or com are seeking your ald iz obtaining K.604 &panies. K.622.
the Reform of the Legislative These constituencies are in Conneil in Hongkong in the fol- Telegrams "SEYBOURNE.”. fact, even more limited than they towing 3 respects, namely:---
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CIGARETTES
I. The abolition, so far as the non-Chinese Castrial Mem- bers of Council are concerned, of the principle of Government nomination and the substitution of popular election thereof.
Your Petitioners submit that it is clearly contrary to roodera principles
representation
of
that the Govrenor should be al- lowed to select and nominate, on behalf of the Public, persons. who are intended to represent the Public on the Legislative Council, and to criticize,,and, if need be, oppose Government : measures.
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of Commons of 1894, which ask-í ed for Д British Unofficial Majority on the Legislative Council.
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The adoption, so far as non-Chinese Members of Council are concerned. of a larger, electoral-body than exists at present, except in the one case of the Member for the Chamber of Commerce, for the reason that that Chamber repre- | sents the trading and shipping! interests, which required, and are entitled to direct representa- tion.
At & Public Meeting, which was So far as the Chinese Unoffi held at the City Hall on the 9th cial Members of the Council are January, 1919, it was suggested concerned, it is not pr.posed to that a far wider and more repres depart from the pressat'system sentative electorate should be of pemination by the Governor, constituted, consisting of British The Chinese, however, have ex- Subjects on the Jurors' List and preased the desire (in the event of those eligible for Jary service of the total number of Unofficial but excmpted by reason of their Members on the Council being occupations.
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(vii) Persons registered under the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908.
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(viii) Clergymen of various de
'mominations. ··
(ix) Schoolmasters and Unt
versity professors, lectur-. ers and officers.
(x) Superintendents, senior ofEcers and supervisors of the Cable and Tele- phone Companies. (xi) Representatives of the
Pres.5.
(xii) Former jurors who ате
above the age-limit for. serving on a jury.
3. The third amendment in“ the Constitution of the Legisla- tive Council which `is -befog sought for is the establishment of an Unofficial Majority on the Council by increasing the man- ber of Unofficials from 6 to 9: (thus placing the combined British and Chinese. Unofficial Members of Council in a majori .ty of one), subject to the i
troduction of such checks and safeguards as are heraxiter re-” ferred to. The arguments in favour of an 1. British subjects on the Jury Unofficial Majority on the Leghla
List.
tive Council are briefly as fol Certain classes of British lows:-' subjects who are exempted! ́1--The Public ought to have S from serving on the Jury by reason of their occupation, namely:-
fol-
increased from 6 to 9 so as to The electorate now suggested. areate an Unofficial Manrity of which is representative of all one) to have опа additional classes of the community and in- Chinese Member on the Coun- volves an adequate knowledge of cil, so that the same proportion the English language, is as fol- "of Chinese to non-Chinese lows:-
Unofficial Members of Council as exists at present may be pre- served, ie, that one-third of the.. Unofficial Members of Council may be Chinese.
It seems desirable to point out that, in such a reformed Legi- slative Council as is proposed. of 9 Unofficials to 8 Officials, the non-Chinese Unofficial Members of Council by themselves would be in a minority on the Council,; and that the only possibility of. the Government suffering defeat. on a division in such a reformed Council would be by the Govern- ment's proposals proving so un-" acceptable to all classes of the community as to weld the Unoffi cial Meinbers into a solid mark . of opposition. This was not the case in the Petition to the House
2.
(i) Government Civil Ser- vants, such as are usually appointed from England. (H) Membars of the Naval and Military Services. provided that they pos- Bess an adequate house- holder or lodger qualifica-
tion.
(iii) Unofficial Members of
Council (iv)Barristers, and Solicitors:
(v) Medical practitioners. (Ti) Dentists in actual prac
tice in the Colony"
controlling voice, by, theit, representatives, in the Legi- slative Council, which dis“ poses by its legislation of the liberty and property of the inhabitants of this Colony. 2-Such an Unofficial control over local affairs by means of an Unofficial Majority has been conceded in the case of other Crown Colonies (some of which are of less importance than this comi mercial and shipping out post in the Far East), such * Bermuda(which has (Continued on Poge 4)-