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Tengku Badar Shah, Tengku Panglima Besar.

The Honourable Mr. A. S. Bailey, M.F.C.

The Honourable Mr. S. N. Veerasamy, M.F.C., J.P.

The Honourable Mr. J. S. Arter, M.F.C.

The Honourable Mr. H. B. Egmont Hake, M.F.C., J.P. Towkay Lai Tet Loke, J.P.

The State Council was formally opened with full ceremony on the 5th January, 1932. This was the 334th meeting of the Council.

His Highness the Sultan arrived at the main entrance of the Public Offices at 10.30 a.m. where he was received by a Guard of Honour consisting of Malays of the Federated Malay States Police under the command of Mr. F. Wallace, Assistant Commissioner of Police. His Highness was accorded the Royal Salute and the Selangor National Anthem was played by the State Band. After inspecting the Guard of Honour His Highness was received by the British Resident who presented to him the newly-appointed members of Council and State Heads of Departments who were assembled at the foot of the main staircase.

His Highness, the British Resident, the members of Council, Heads of Depart- ments and a small number of the public then proceeded to the Council Chamber. All members of Council, with the exception of His Highness the Sultan, the British Resi- dent, and the Raja Muda, made and signed the affirmation as members of Council in turn standing in their places His Highness then addressed the Council. The British Resident then read out in English and Malay a telegram received from His Excellency the High Commissioner of which a copy is attached, after which he addressed the Council in Malay. His Highness the Sultan briefly replied voicing his cordial apprecia- tion of His Excellency's telegram and his thanks for the good wishes expressed by the British Resident. A copy of a telegram sent by the British Resident to His Excellency is attached. The State Heads of Departments then withdrew and the Council pro- ceeded to the business of the day.

6th January, 1932.

J. W. SIMMONS, British Resident, Selangor.

Copy of a telegram from the High Commissioner to the British Resident, Selangor, dated 4th January, 1932.

PLEASE Convey to the Sultan my cordial greetings on the occasion of the first meeting of His Highness's reconstituted State Council and also an expression of my fervent prayer and confident belief that in its performance of the duties that will gradually devolve upon it under the policy of decentralization the new Council will advance the welfare and good Government of Selangor.

HIGH COMMISSIONER.

Copy of telegram from British Resident to the High Commissioner, dated 6th January, 1932.

I READ Your Excellency's telegram to the Council yesterday and His Highness desired that I should convey to you his cordial thanks for it and the good wishes contained therein.

Enclosure 3 in No. 37.

STATE OF NEORI SEMBILAN.

THE members of the reconstituted State Council of Negri Sembilan are as follows:-

Upper Chamber.

President: His Highness the Yang di Pertuan Besar (Tuanku Muhammad,

G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., ibni al-Marhum Yam Tuan Antah).

The Honourable the Acting British Resident (Mr. J. W. W. Hughes, M.C.S.). The Dato' Klana Petra of Sungei Ujongj (Che Mamor bin Inche Kasim, C.B.E.). The Dato' Penghulu of Jelebu, Mendika Mentri Akhir Zaman (Che Abdullah bin

Panglima Mude).

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The Dato' Penghulu of Johol, Johan Pahlawan Lela Perkasa Setiawan (Che

Kamat bin Leman).

The Dato' Penghulu of Rembau, Sedia Raja (The Honorourable Enche Abdullah

bin Haji Dahan, M.F.C.).

The Tengku Besar of Sri Menanti (Tangku Besar Burhanu' din ibni al-Marhum

Yam Tuan Antah).

Lower Chamber.

President: The Honourable the British Resident. Vice-President: The Secretary to Resident.

The Honourable the Legal Adviser, Federated Malay States, or his deputy. The State Engineer.

The State Medical and Health Officer. The State Forest Officer.

The Agricultural Field Officer.

D. Farquharson, Esq.

Unofficial Members.

Dato' Wong Yick Tong, J.P.

Towkay Chan Seng Long, J.P.

Tuan Sheikh Ahmad bin Mustafa, J.P.

Dr. S. R. Krishnan.

The reconstituted State Council of Negri Sembilan was formally inaugurated by His Highness the Yang di Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan and the Undang in the State Council Chamber on the 25th February, 1932, in the presence of a fair crowd of visitors.

His Highness the Yang di Pertuan Besar arrived at the entrance of the Council Chamber at 10.25 a.m., when he was received by a Guard of Honour consisting of the Malayan Volunteer Infantry under the command of Captain E. H. Wilson. His Highness was accorded the Royal Salute and the Negri Sembilan Anthem was played by the Band of the Malayan Volunteer Infantry.

The British Resident then accompanied His Highness to the Council Chamber where the members of the State Council were presented to him.

The British Resident then read in English and Malay a telegram received from His Excellency the High Commissioner, a copy of which is attached, after which His Highness addressed the Council. A translation of His Highness' speech is attached. All the new members of State Council then made the affirmation.

Mr. D. Farquharson, on behalf of the Unofficials, thanked His Highness and the Undang for the honour conferred on them.

His Highness voiced his cordial appreciation of His Excellency's telegram. Visitors then withdrew and after a photograph of the combined Councils was taken, the State Council reassembled.

A copy of the opening speech made by the British Resident as the President of the new State Council is attached.

26th February, 1932.

J. W. W. Hughes, Acting British Resident,

Negri Sembilan.

Copy of a telegram from the High Commissioner to the British Resident, Negri Sembilan. PLEASE Convey to the Yam Tuan and Undang my cordial greetings on the occasion of the first meeting of the re-formed State Council of Negri Sembilan. I earnestly hope and believe that the re-formed Council in assuming the duties which will gradually devolve upon it under the revised Constitution of the Federated Malay States will promote the welfare and good government of Negri Sembilan.

Copy of reply sent at the request of His Highness the Yang di Pertuan Besar.

On behalf of the Undang and myself I thank Your Excellency for your message to-day on the occasion of the inauguration of the reconstituted State Council. I reci- procate Your Excellency's hope and belief that the reformed Constitution will promote the welfare and good government of Negri Sembilan.

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