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No. 11.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY to LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR F. NAPIER

BROOME, C.M.G.

Downing Street, January 17, 1888.

No. 42. SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatches* of the Nos. and dates noted below, forwarding respectively, a petition addressed to Her Majesty, and signed by 3,329 persons, praying for certain changes in the consti- tution of the Council of Government, including the addition of 10 elected members, and the corresponding increase of the numbers of official and nominated members, a letter addressed to my predecessor, by Mr. Antelme, C.M.G., and others, deprecating the introduction of the elective element into the Council, but suggesting

an increase of the number of the unofficial members, by the addition of three new members; and a petition addressed to Her Majesty, and signed by about 7,000 Indians and others, with the copy of a covering letter from Mr. B. H. Colin, also objecting to the intro- duction of the elective principle into the Council, but advocating the addition of two more unofficial members.

2. The important questions raised in these papers are receiving the careful con- sideration of Her Majesty's Government.

Lieutenant-Governor F. Napier Broome.

I have, &c. (Signed)

DERBY.

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