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the subject of a petition addressed to the House of ~ Commons by certain resi- dents at Hongkong praying for an amendment of the constitution of the Colony,. the last paragraph of which Your Lordship states that I lam at
at liberty, if I see oc- easion to do so, to give pub- licity to the despatch under acknowledgement. I have not considered it advisable to
avail myself of the permission
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to make publia Your Lordship's reply, because the Unofficial members of the Legislative
Council are
opposed to the creation of a Municipal Council in this Colony, and the question of the abolition of the Sanitary Board, which Your Lordship thinks it might be possible to develope into a satisfactory Municipal Council, has been strongly urged upon me and is at present under consideration. It has been
proposed
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