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Colonel Hall he raises
he should sit as an
a question as to whether Official Member of the Exactive Council, stating that His Emeeleway Major General Donovan, before leaving Hongking had informed him that he (Colonel Hall) would
not become a member of the Executive Council during the Major General's absence from the Colony as the latter was absent from the Colony only
on a tour of inspection in the
Straits Settlements and would remain as it
were still within the limits of his command,
was
whilst he (Colonel Hall,
Denior Military Officer in Honghong, only for the time boing.
His Excellencey the Governor said that such a difficulty had never, to his. Knowledge, been raised before either in this Colony or any
other His
Excelleney
said the
rule in Honghong
was that when the General in Command had absented himself from the Colony of Hongkong on his amual inspection
to the Straits Settlements the next sessior
Military Officer assumed the Command of the droops in Hongkong and always took the Oath and his seat as a member of the Excentive Corneil. That had occurred in the case. of.
In
Colonel Stuart, Colonel Hall and others.
the Windward Islands where he had also been
Governor, the same practice had been followed. When General Farren left Barbadoes
Jamaica and
она
tour of
inspection to the other Islands, the next Senior Officer Colonel Porter, R.C, took his seat at the Excentive Council of Barbadoes as Denior Officer in Command of the troops. The Governor asked
the Attorney General to refer to Her Majesty's Letters
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