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only $960 a year, should not be specified as conferring a seat in that Council"
Respecting this statement & would ask permission to offer the subjoined remark on
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It would appear that my this point have been overlooked. For I entirely agree that an Executive Council of seven members (including the Governor), would be "unnecessarily large" for this Colony, if there were or even any certainty, or probability;
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of the constant attendance of those members. But I have already shown that "At Hong Kong it is necessary at all times & absolutely necessary
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for the preservation of the vigour, often for the preservation of the "lives, of the English Officials, that they should be allowed periodical leave of absense. Consequently; it is
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Three of the principal Functionaries of this Government have died within the last twelve months; and, according to the best medical opinions, the lives of two, at least, (Mr Justice Snowden and Mr. ... that he was ...), might have been saved by their proceeding to Europe on leave.
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