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unofficial.
concurrence - but I
cannot recall to mind that within
my experience,
within
observation, when an
onlooker, onlooker
from a neighbouring port, that public funds have been wasted in defiance of the unofficial protest. If you begin to tamper with system of Government and to claim popular representation here you open the gate to a vista of troubles. The Chinese must have
the
more
representatives to look into disposal of their taxes or
proposals
become
unjust,
after the
your
and I see
objections which I will not
weary you by enumerating. I would
like to see a
representative in the
Legislative Council of those who, being neither members of the Chamber of Commerce, nor Justices of the Peace,
are specific members of their
class,
and I would be pleased to see one
or
two unofficial members in the Executive Council, but I feel
that
nothing that has happened in the past can justify a petition of the nature of the one, of which, I return the draft.
many
thanks I now