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.VIRtstoel Iminolo Idr

Sir,

Hongkong, 21st. January,

1919.

In response to the request conveyed to us

from His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government

for an expression of opinion upon the proposals recently made for an increased unofficial representation on the Legislative

Council we have the following remarks to make.

The two points demanded by the Constitutional

Reform Association by the Resolutions passed at the Meeting

held on the 9th, January were:-

1st.

2nd.

An unofficial majority on the Legislative Council.

That all Members of the Legislative Council should be

elected with the exception of two of the Chinese

Representatives.

There is no doubt that there is a strong feeling

among a large number of the Community that these two points

should be conceded and while we sympathise with them in

theory we are not prepared to support them in practice, Bave

to some extent as regards Municipl functions and control,

Broadly speaking we do not think it would be fair to

the Native and Indian population, who can never be propor-

tionately represented, to hand over the power to pass laws

to an unofficial majority which, if the above demands were

granted, would be elected on a popular franchise, essentially

transitory, consisting of a small proportion of the total

population.

The power to pass laws should remain in the hands of

those appointed by the Imperial Government though a greater

share in their administration might be delegated to an

unofficially and locally elected body.

The unofficial Members have in the past from a

Parliamentary point of view acted in Council as the opposition

to the Government.

It might be said that with an unofficial

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