50
January 1879.
then
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In that memorist.
We bey humbly to cubuit that the
Kineu wurents qpuced the Foreign residents more than ten times in
number and the amount of taxation bone by the Shinen community las exceeds for for the amount boue by thes Facien Consuunity. Henceforth it would be lout this to allow the Krines Community a share in the management & buthe affairs of the Loun
10.
When in May, 1879, I reported
havin provisionally asiointed Mr. Ribb
to a seat on the Council, I said. _
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"I have had to consider the fact that
the four untthcial Smembers of Council
in Houston belous to the European
- and that
Community excéncially the time has undoubtably
this
come when
thousand Chinese subjects
on the Queen who have been born
univer the British Flax and the
wealthy and enterprising Linere Communite severaly, right to have, as at Singapork,
Th
come one of their body
the festilative Council. But this
suction is raised in the address to in
the Chinese Merchants
from
transmitted in
my
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