RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1982 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/mk61z420p 46 J. H. HAAN lay in the Land Regulations. In those of 1845 article XX declared that "the several contributors (of taxes, etc JH) will request the Consul to appoint three upright merchants to deliberate upon and determine the amount to be subscribed by them". And the 1854 Land Regulations stipulated in article X “meeting of renters of land.. to appoint a committee of three or more persons to levy the said rates and dues ..". With 10 out of the 29 articles of the Land Regulations of 1869 referring to the Municipal Council, this set of Regulations were far more elaborate as to the election and functioning of the Municipal Council than their predecessors. This was mainly caused by the problems several councils had faced in the 1860s as a result of which it was decided to strengthen the powers of the executive. Article XIX laid down the qualifications for a Municipal Council member: "And no one shall be qualified to be a member of the said Council unless he shall pay an annual assessment, exclusive of licenses, of fifty taels, or shall be a householder paying on an assessed rental of one thousand two hundred taels per annum". From this it is clear that the qualification for membership of the Council was even more restrictive than that for voting (the threshold for Council membership as suggested by the Commission of 1865-66 was even higher at Taels 1800, but this was changed by the foreign ministers). This was in sharp contrast to the earlier constitutions by which it was theoretically, and even in practice, possible for non-landrenters to sit on the Municipal Council, whereas only landrenters had the vote, thereby indicating that, at that time, the qualification for membership of the Council was more liberal than that for the franchise. In the records of the Settlement's early history (until 1865) two cases have come to light in which a non-landrenter was elected as a member of the Municipal Council, but in both cases there was some opposition from part of the foreign community. At the Public Meeting of June 14 1851 three gentlemen were proposed for membership of the executive then still called the Committee of Roads and Jetties, a name it kept until 1854 — William Seton Brown, Clement D. Nye and Edward Langley,37 viz: ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1982 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/mk61z420p 62 J. H. HAAN APPENDIX MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP 1849-1865 Note: Dates after the term of office refer to the Public Meeting at which the Municipal Council was elected. Members Firm Nationality Russell & Co. Rathbones American British 1851 (June) MacVicar & Co. J. M. Smith & Co. Wetmore & Co. American British American 1849 (March) — 1850 (August) (10.3.1849) John N. Alsop Griswold Thomas Moncreiff 1850 (August) (2.8.1850) Hector C. R. MacDuff J. Mackrill Smith Oliver Everett Roberts 1851 (June) — 1852 (May) (14.6.1851) Edward Langley Clement D. Nye William Seton Brown Oriental Bank Bull, Nye & Co. Rathbones British American British 1852 (May) — 1853 (July) (25.5.1852) William Hogg Edward Cunningham (Chairman) Russell & Co. American Lindsay & Co. Blenkin, Rawson & Co. British British William Kay 1853 (July) — 1854 (July) (21.7.1853) William Shephard Wetmore Wetmore & Co. American Shaw, Bland & Co. British? (Chairman) John Hammond Winch J. Caldecott Smith 1854 (July) — 1855 (March) (11.7.1854) William Seton Brown (Chairman) x David O. King (Treasurer) x Edward Cunningham Charles A. Fearon William Kay Dr. Walter Henry Medhurst x John Skinner Dent, Beale & Co. Birley, Worthington & Co. King & Co. Russell & Co. Aug. Heard & Co. Blenkin, Rawson & Co. London Missionary Society Gibb, Livingston & Co. British British ? American American British British British Note: In March 1855 only those members marked "x" were still in office, plus: H.C.R. MacDuff, ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1984 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/5h73wh572 211 tees VI, VII and VIII. He left Shanghai in May 1865.* BRAND, Andrew 1862-1863 Partner in Smith, Kennedy & Co. from December 31, 1860.7 He died late 1862 or early 1863.8 BRAND, Robert 1863-1864 10 Authorized to sign for Smith, Kennedy & Co. from July 1, 1861.9 Partner from January 1, 1862 (or 1863, this is not quite clear).1 Later he was a partner in Brand Bros. [1 BROWN, William Seton 1851-1852, 1854-1855 Arrived in Shanghai late 1850;12 originally in partnership with William Rathbone, Samuel Rathbone, James Worthington and Thomas Moncreiff as commission agents; turned into Birley, Worthington & Co. as from January 1, 1853.13 Member Committee Shanghai Library 1852;14 member Committee to study the erection of a new building for the Shanghai Library 1852;13 member Committee Shanghai Library 1854.16 COCK, James 1862-1863, 1863-1864 Authorized to sign for Watson & Co. from March 6, 1857; partner as from March 15, 1861.18 Trustee British Episcopal Church 1863.19 Member Committee IV. COUTTS, George Watson 1857-1858 Partner in Watson & Co. from November 25, 1853.20 He was still living in Shanghai in 1890.21 COUTTS, J.C. 1865-1866 Partner in Coutts & Co.22 21 ================================================================================