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to a certain extent satisfactory to the Inhabitants, and certainly could not be otherwise than useful to the authorities

enable the

and it would moreover Government to explain its acts which in

many, nay,

I will

say in most cases

are

complained of because they are unexplained and consequently misunderstood. I therefore beg respectfully to offer it as my opinion that Her Majesty might be moved to sanction two of the principal inhabitants being appointed to the Legislative and Executive Councils respectively - By paragraph V. of Her Majesty's Gracious Instructions to the Governor of this Colony bearing date 4th April 1843, the number of Members in each Council is restricted to three, in addition to the Governor.

The three Gentlemen at present composing the Legislative Council are the Chief Justice, the Attorney General,

?

and the Colonial Treasurer; those in the Executive are the Major General in Command of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, and the Secretary to the Chief Superintendent of Trade. If therefore Her Majesty should be graciously pleased to sanction an addition to these Councils, it will be necessary that her Instructions be modified to that effect.

In the last paragraph of the petition the Petitioners express their conviction of the bad moral effect produced on the minds of the Chinese by the present system of forms adopted by the Supreme Court and by the heavy fees authorized to be levied by the Courts, whereby the ends of Justice are too often frustrated whereas in their opinion these forms and fees should be the simplest and lightest that circumstances will admit of.

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to a certain extent satisfactory to the Inhabitants, and certainly could not be otherwise than useful to the authorities enable the and it would moreover Government to explain its acts which in many, nay, I will say in most cases are complained of because they are unexplained and consequently misunderstood. I therefore beg respectfully to offer it as my opinion that Her Majesty might be moved to sanction two of the principal inhabitants being appointed to the Legislative and Executive Councils respectively - By paragraph V. of Her Majesty's Gracious Instructions to the Governor of this Colony bearing date 4th April 1843, the number of Members in each Council is restricted to three, in addition to the Governor. The three Gentlemen at present composing the Legislative Council are the Chief Justice, the Attorney General, ? and the Colonial Treasurer; those in the Executive are the Major General in Command of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, and the Secretary to the Chief Superintendent of Trade. If therefore Her Majesty should be graciously pleased to sanction an addition to these Councils, it will be necessary that her Instructions be modified to that effect. In the last paragraph of the petition the Petitioners express their conviction of the bad moral effect produced on the minds of the Chinese by the present system of forms adopted by the Supreme Court and by the heavy fees authorized to be levied by the Courts, whereby the ends of Justice are too often frustrated whereas in their opinion these forms and fees should be the simplest and lightest that circumstances will admit of.
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to a certain extent satisfactory to the Inhabitants, and certainly could not be otherwire than useful to the authorities

enable the

and it would morcover Government to explain its acts which in

many, nay,

I will

say in most cases

are

are complained of because they unexplained and consequently minnuderstood. I therefore bey respectfully to offer it as my opinion that Her Majesty might be moved to sanction two of the principal inhabitants being appointed to the Legislative and hoecutive Councils respectively - By paragraph. V. of -Majesty's Gracious Instructions to the Governor of this (olony bearing date both. 4pril 1843, the number of Members in each Council is restricted to three, in addition to the Governor. The three scrubers at prezent, composing the Legislative founcil me the Chief Justice, the Attorney General.

are

?

1

200

and the Colonial Treasurer; those in the Excentive are the Major General in Command of the Forces, the Colonial Secretary, and the Secretary to the Chief Superintendent of Trade. If therefore Her Majesty should be

to sanction an

graciously pleased

addition to these-

Conneils, it will be necessary that there Instructions be modified to that

9.

effect.

преве

In the last paragraph of the

express their conviction

petition the Petitioners of the bad moral effect produced on the minds of the Chince by the present system of forms adopted by the Supreme Court and by the heavy fees authorized to be levied by the fourts, whereby the ends of Justice are too often frustrated whereas

opinion there formes and fees should be the simplest and lightest that circumstances will admit of In these.

in their

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