CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4] — Page 16

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Bench of Justices and by the

Chamber of Commerce. All that

the English settlers at Hongkong

now claim is that, as a

as a general

rule, and in matters of purely

iosal and municipal concern, in

which no

S

for the

settlers at Shanghai, through their

Municipal Council, under the

supervision of the Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs and of the British Minister at Peking. I am

in

to

Imperial interests are involved, they should be permitted to sxcraise, through their Legislative Council, and under the supervision of the Secretary of State

for

the

Colonies and of the Governor, those municipal privileges which are freely sxercised by the English m

settlers

free

confess, Excentive Council, and with the

that in common with the

other chief Officers of Government, I fail to perceive any sufficient reason why this ordinary privilege of British subjects, which is enjoyed by every Town Conneil in Great Britain, and by the Municipalities of British India and of other Crown Colonies, should be

with nee