Hong Kong, 6th June 1876.
Acting Registrar General (M. S. Tonnochy, Esq.)
District Watchmen.
Returns connected with for 1875.
Enclosure in Governor Sir A. E. Kennedy's despatch no. 101 of 8th June 1876.
Governor.
No.
Medy Cruft
Date.
1876 June 8
Last previous Paper.
5
8644.
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Added Instructions & Warrant
Seal sent. 21 Feby 1877!
2753
8
Hong Kong
No. 8601.
(Subject.)
DESPATCH.
236
Necessity for appointing another member to the Executive Council.
Submits - Expresses opinions as to fitness of different parties & recommends M. Prive, the Surveyor General.
Mr. Meade.
(Minutes.)
The difficulties in this matter appear to me to have arisen very much from the mode in which the Executive Council has been dealt with during the last few years.
It used to consist of the Gov., Officer Commanding Troops, Colonial Secretary, Attorney General, Auditor General.
When the Auditor Generalship was abolished as a separate office, its duties were amalgamated with those of the Colonial Secretary; at the same time the Treasurership was also...
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