HONGKONG.
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Enclosure 2.
Copy.
Protest
OF
UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
against alarming increase in cost of Administration
and with reference to their position
and treatment in the Council.
HONGKONG, 14th January, 1893.
No. 344.
The Government House,
Hongkong 21 Dec 92.
My Lord Marquess,
I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's consideration the enclosed protest by the Unofficial members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong against the Appropriation Bill for 1893 passed by the Council.
2.
The Memorialists contend that the Bill, as passed, was not legally passed inasmuch as the
Right Hon: Marquess of Ripon, K.G.