CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6] — Page 539

COPY.

Enclosure

REC

42028 Prince's Buildings,

11th. January, 1918,

REG 31 AUG 18j

The Clerk of Councils.

Sir,

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At a meeting of the Unofficial Members of tho

Legislative Council which was held at my Office yesterday

afternoon it was unanimously decided that the following

Motion should be made at the next Meeting of the Legislative

Council, and, in accordance with that decision of the Un-

-official Kembers I beg leave to give notice that I shall make the following Motion at the next Meeting of the

Legislative Council, namely:-

That His Excellency the Governor in Council be asked to appoint Commissioners, under the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting on the working, efficiency, organisation, and pay of the Police Force, and of the Fire Brigade, and of the Staff of the Imports and Exports Office, and that such Commissioners do consist of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and two European Unofficial Members of Council and the two Chinese Unofficial Members of Council, with power to add to their numbers and to select their own Chairman, and that a Secretary be also appointed to such Comission, and that the Commission appointing such Commissioners be so framed as to give to such Commissioners and also to all witnesses giving evidence before them and all other persons the fullest powers, rights, privileges, indemity, and protection which are possible under the provisions of the said Ordi-

-nance,

I am etc.,

(Sa.) H. E. Pollock.