Towards the end of the sixties affairs as reflected in the records of Municipal meetings were getting more satisfactory, and the community was able to direct attention to some of the anomalies which existed in the mode of government, After setting forth these anomalies in vigorous language the members of the outgoing Council in 1865 suggested something like a Charter of incorporation "thus calling into existence "Town Council, not only in name but in reality, whose Tegal constitu ion will arm with adequate authority the efforts of those residents who may hereafter grapple with the difficulties which nought but a stron; executive cin effectually overcome ani place Shanzhai im the envious position of being second to no port in the East in the efficiency of all the branches of Municipal administration; with the obvious corollary.
improvement tothe public health, and perfect security to life and property." What form this ambition would have taken outwardly we do not know, but it is a curious little fact that the members of the next Council are referred to in official records as Councillor" so-and-so, but the title was dropped the next year and not revived.
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