3.4. The Chamber of Commerce comprises the principal merchants and bankers of all the races settled in Hongkong, including the Chinese. There is no Chamber of agriculture, because agriculture can hardly be said to exist on this rocky island.
The most efficient organs for the representation of the intelligence, the education, and the property of this community, are the Chamber of Commerce, and the body of Justices of the Peace.
I propose, that in pureuance of the Unofficial Anglo delegation, the Members should be, as a general rule, appointed on the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce, and one on the recommendation of the Justices of the Peace. There should certainly be a Member of the Chinese community, as representatives of the Native Communities have for some years past held seats in the legislature, in British India, Ceylon, New Zealand, and the Straits Settlements.
Indeed, it might be proper to place two Chinese in the legislature, if their interests were not already protected by the Registrar-General. Moreover, I have always held that the Governor, as the Representative of the Queen, is bound to protect impartially the interests of all Her Majesty's subjects of every race.
Of course, the final appointment would continue, in every case, to rest absolutely with the Governor, subject to the approval...
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