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Superintendent of Police is not on the Executive
Council, but might be put on if the caught recessay.
This second suggestion embodies part and the main
part of the constitutional change which has been sug-
On other papers gested
as practicable. I would add with reference to
that subject, that now that it has been decided that the
Officer in Command of the Troops is to administer the
Government in the absence of the Governor, it might be
well that he should be given a seat in the Legislative
Council, and he might be counterbalanced by one alii-
tional unofficial member, whom I should leave the
Governor to nominate, telling him, when feasible to
select a second Chinaman.
C.P.L
22nd January,
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