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Committee to the existing rules for admission to the

Musenv

Im

reply they pointed

out that the rules

were made

with

many

after consulting of the leading Chinese of the Colony, that they had never known them complained of

in

any way by

themselves

been framed

the Chinese

and that they had

in

the interest

of all parties Chinese and

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Chinese alike. They

further pointed out to His Excellency that the

rule as to admission

was not a

hard and

inflexible regulation but

was intended to be one

that

could be appealed to and

enforced should occasion

require.

A

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A basis of settlement.)

of the dispute between the Committee and His Excellency:

was then privately submitted to the Committee which ran

in the following words..

"The Committees will

be

ready

to meet and associate

with them the Bishop

in

order to

(1) consider amending the existing rules for admission to the museums if after full

discussion amendment is

thought necessary-

(2). Whether

any

departure from

the

original

understanding with the Government as to the

conditions of admission to the public has taken place.

The common basis

of settlement...