CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 369

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

changes, if rendered per : : Manent, which it w?

be difficult to corid, would

be to render the apponit: -mont to unofficial seats Elective for a limited period.

The Rection being placed in the hands of gentlemen Whe, however well qualified

to fill the posts which They occupy and to take

h

vere pimportant part

in the administration

of the affairs of the Colony,

cannot be said in

way

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to represent the com.

- manity

7. Her Majesty's

Government are not

prepared to assent to such

3

a charge and they behein

long.

That 80.

The Colony

not adapted.

of Hong Kong is wehretend

for the extension to it.

2

Represe Native institutions

Vie

in the ordinary sense, choice of unofficial men

:bers is best entrusted,

heretofore, to the Officer

Who

mag

administer the

Government.

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