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and precedent elsewhere.

A letter, dated from "Government

House, Hongkong, 6th. September, 1887*, from the Private

Secretary to His Excellency Lieutenant-General Cameron,

C.B., who at that time administered the Government of the

Colony, to the Secretary of the College, contains the

following.-

*His Excellency the Acting Governor

desires me, in answer to your letter of yesterday's date,

to inform you that he entirely concurs in your proposal

that the College of Medicine for Chinese should be under

the auspices of the Governor of Hongkong".

The College was formally inaugurated

at a public meeting in the City Hall on the first of

October, 1887, addressed by Dr. Manson, at which the

Acting Governor publicly expressed his good wishes for

the success of the enterprise.

From that day to this the Governors

of the Colony have publicly and privately declared their

entire sympathy with the efforts of the Court and Senate

to make the College worthy of this British Colony, but

all proposals and schemes for a permanent endowment have

for one reason or another come to nothing.

The Court submit that the time has

now come when the Colony and the Community should take up the work, and recognise that the profit is to the

public; and they most respectfully beg His Excellency

the