CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 310

additional Mcumber to that Body.

The trecutive Council

من

at present constituted comists

7 4 Members_ He Governor,

斥

the Sieutenant Governor the

Military Commander of the

Forces and (provisionally) the Acting Colonial Secretary.

For Mary Mouth, the Military Commander of the Forces.

has been much more at Head : Quarters in Canton than in the

• Colony and the busince

Executive depend upon in together of the three

Members who

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the

the

gathering

remaining

are meocurry uccessary

form a quoruin.

to

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In a Colony like this where

illuen frequently incapacitates

from the discharge of our dutus, its

has

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than once happeuch thać

ALCELLIALY to assemble

it has been mec:

the Council in the sick rooie of one

the

of its members, in order to get through ungent buinces of the Gorusment

the

the

"at

present moment the

Lieutenant foreure (the General

bein

in Canton) has appliche for

on

six weeks leave of abeuce ni tisk | Entificate which being granted deavis only two members of the Council in the Colony, siz- Angelf and the Acting Colonial Secretary-

And as regard suyself. for