CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5] — Page 220

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3.4. the Chamber of Commerce comprises the punicipal

Merchants and bankers of all the races settled in StringKing, including the Chamese - There is no Chamber of agriculture, because Agriculture cam bartly be said to Exist on this weekly island.

representation of the intelligence, the

Education, and the property of this

immunity, are the Chamber of Commerce,

and the Mouch

of

Justices of the Peace. &

I propore, that in pure

caf

muance

of

the

the die Unofficial

Anglin degation, tho Mombers Chould be, as a general rule, apported on the recommendation

Ne Chamber of Commerce,

of

and one

in Me wamenundation the Justice's

of

of

the Peace. The more should

certainly be a Member

the Chinese

of community, as representations of the.

Native Communities have for reamp

& the

Junkar the Peach are now 52 his

candy rumber, including three Chuire

Years

of

·-217-

years part held seats in the legislature, British India, Ceylon, New Zealand,

And the Chaits Settlements. Indeed it might be proper & place two Chinese te the legislature, if their interests were not already protected by the Registrar- Eneral. Moreover, Chave always held that the Governor, as the Representative

the Queen, to bound to protect

Impartially the interests of all ster Majesty's subjects of Every

Na ce..

of

course, the final appointment would Continine, in Every care, to 202h absolutely bith the Governor, subject to the

approval