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aside, it appears to me that the case
for admitting an unofficial element
into the Executive Council is thereby
strengthened, because for the future
the sooner we recognise the principle
that the Colonial Government is also
the Municipal authority, the better it
و
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will be for all parties, and that there.
Of opinions that
fore,
representatives of the class of
leading residents who would ordinarily
have seats on a municipal Board, have
a special claim to a voice in the ad-
ministrative organ of the Colonial
Government, in other words, in the Exe-
cutive Council.
In your despatch No.133 of
the 5th of June 1894, you expressed
yourself as not unfavourable to such a
concession, and you added that, as
indeed I should have expected, you al-
ready to some extent, and informally,
admit