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Dear Young,
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PL
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
S.W.1.
25th June, 1947.
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Constitutional changes in Hong Kong.
I am now enclosing the revised draft of the “Constitution despatct which has been prepared in
the light of our discussion on Monday. The pas ages which are now in the draft are sidelined.
2. The amendments to paragraph 3(a), 3(f) and 3(g) need no further explanation, as they were fully covered in our discussion and have already received your concurrence.
3. The new paragraphs 3(b) and 3(c) are now required mines we have dropped the suggestion that your despatch No. 145 should be amended before publication so as to omit reference to any difierentiation as between non-British Chinese nationals on the one hand, and mon-British Furopeans and Americans on the other, in regard to the period of residential qualification for both membership of the Municipal Council and the franchise. We explained to you that we had been led to sugest these amendments owing to a corruption in the text of the last paragraph of your telegram No. 817 of the 13th May, as received here. We also agreed in the light of our discussion to drop the idea of the omissions to paragraphs 2, 9 and 15 of your despatch which we had suggested in paragraph o(I) of our
SIR ARK YOUNG, 0.0.4.0.
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