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popular election of the Legislature
obvious reasons,
is, for many impracticable; while it is alike just, safe, and expedient to allow certain representative Public Bodies to nominate their
own
6.
delegates.
The power of general
taxation in Hongkong is vested in the Governor and Legislative Council, while the power of — Municipal rating is vested in
nor in Executive Council
the Governor
This latter arrangement is, of ~~
Course
course, anomalous and inconsistent
or
with the proper theory of taxation of every Kind. No petition remonstrance, however, has been addressed to me
the subject;
On
which may be regarded.
as a
of
the
proof of the confidence- community in the present administration of their affairs. Still I am disposed to think that it would be well to
anticipate the agitation
on this
point which is sure to arise in the future, by now amending
the
: