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this head.

We submit the following recommendations under

The Pro-Chancellorship, as an office permanently

vested in any individual, we recommend be abolished; provi-

sion being made in the Ordinence for the Officer Administering

the Government to act as Chancellor in your absence from the

colony.

The Vice-Chancellorship. We consider it essential

that a suitable Vice-Chancellor be appointed as soon as

possible, and that steps be taken forthwith to this end,

Unless the arrival of the new Vice-Chancellor is assured

almost immediately, we recommend that if possible a suitable man be temporarily appointed as acting Vice-Chancellor. We are of opinion that the Vice-Chancellor should have good

University and administrative qualifications; and should give

his whole time to the work; and should, if possible, possess a knowledge of China and the Chinese.

We recommend the reconsideration for the Vice-

Chancellorship of the names of Mr. Clementi, Mr. Johnaton, and

Sir James Stewart Lockhart; and we suggest that enquiry be

first made whether Sir John Jordan would accept the post. Sir James Stewart Lockhart might perhaps be prepared to come

temporarily as acting Vice-Chancellor.

The Pro-Vice-Chancellorship, as an office

permanently rested in any individual, we recommend be

abolished; prevision being made in the Ordinance for the

appointment, as acting Vice-Chancellor, of the most suitable

men available when the occasion arises.

We recommend that the appointment of both the

Vice-Chancellor and the acting Vice-Chancellor should be made

by the Court, on the nomination of the Council.

With regard to the Court, there is at present no

legal requirement that it should ever meet, and in fact it has

not

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