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other

it is our deliberate conviction

year, it

now-off

official

that it would be infinitely there were no no- members than that they should continue as at present component parts of. a council so constituted.

cal solution

of

We respectfully submit to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies the following as the only practes. the difficulty caused by A. E. The Governor. Either the nominy= ation of the Auditor General should pes -

abeyance until the original num. of six official members be returned to, by vacancies occurring, or the original position

main in abeya

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of

of

pro- Sir John Bowring as to the numro-

now- official members should ales

be carried out.

Hongkong, 20th Nov: "1858.

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Victoria Hong Kong 24th November 1858.

On the part of the now.

official members of the Sigis - lative Council of this Colony I do myself the honour of forwarding to you " which they have thought it

a Protest

to make on the pub-

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necessary to make on ject of the recent appointment by His Excellency the Governor of the Auditor General to a seat in the Council.

To the Right Honourable

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bart: MP. Kev Majesty's becretary of State for

the Colonies

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