by thee Officer Commanding the Troops,
The later arra
rangement,
which entrusts
the administration to the Colonial
Secritary s
σε
to some other Civil
Ifficer, "unless a Lieutenant Governor should have been appointed "by the queen," is open to ruvch.... objection, and has led to much practical inconvenience, as I have partly shown in my despatches he69 (parq) and hos: 82, 318 and 330 of 1885. Many other considerations might be added to those therein
stated ; especially as affecting Hong kong, where there is no
is to large territory
or population to governs ;
where
there are about 3,000 (three thousand)
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Raval and Military,
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only
about 300 ([toreehundred) English
That is, without counting Civil residents.
me and
All the laval
Children_ and Military, and, (as I am
the great majority of
assured)
the Civil
inhabitants of
ttäis
Colony,
Evoreld
prefer a rettern to the former dystens .
3. Whatever principle may
be
adopted elsewhere, or, as a general
rule, at Hongkong, it is my duty to
submit for your consideration whether
a dormant Commission as
Governor
Lieutenant
should be issued, in this
particular instance, in favour of
General Cameron, who has proved
timiself to be a skilful livil as well
as Mic
Isilitury Administrator.
For:-
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