Department must often be called upon to give information and advice as to the funds available for every Department. To illustrate, on a small scale, small things by great, the exclusion of the Treasurer from the Executive Council at Hongkong is even more inconvenient to the public service than would be the exclusion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the Cabinet in England. Moreover, I submit, that it is manifestly unjust to expect the Treasurer to propose and support in the Legislature financial measures, which he is precluded from discussing in the Executive Council. As I wrote in my despatch No. 62 (7.6.) "My own long experience and that of other Governors, teaches us that it is expedient, in a high degree, that the official members of the Legislative Council in a Crown Colony should, as a general rule, have seats in the Executive Council.
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