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The spirit of the existing consultative system should be retained;

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The final court of appeal should be set up in HK;

9. Community service groups should be retained and expanded;

10. The Police Force, including the auxiliary police, should be retained;

11. The Volunteers, CAS, fire brigade, AMS, St. John's Ambulance Service should

be retained;

12. HK should be able to recruit its own civil servants. The benefits of serving

civil servants, including their conditions of service and pensions, should be safeguarded in the future;

13. HK should be given a limited degree of power to handle certain external

issues, such as external trade and immigration;

14. Freedom of thinking should be preserved;

15. Freedom of religion should be preserved;

16. Freedom of speech should be preserved,

17. Freedom of the press should be preserved;

18. Freedom of publication should be preserved;

19. Freedom of communication should be preserved;

20. Freedom of assembly and forming unions should be preserved;

21. Freedom to travel in and out of 4K should be preserved;

22. Private property and asset owners and the right of inheritence should be

protected;

23. Land leases north of Boundary Stor

extended for 50 years without paying rents of these properties should be used by the Government in reassessin. Kowloon which expired in 1973:

ve to expire in 1997 should be additional premiums. The Crown sessed on the basis of the metho the Crown rents of those leases in

24. HK's status as a free port and mernational financial centre should be

retained and enlarged;