The reforms should, it is suggested. be introduced as a purely local mea sure by the several purely civil bodies representative of the national communities and be municipally documented—by the Council's acceptance thereof—in an agreement made purely between the international citizens themselves, to which no National Government officially shall be a party, and which therefore does not in any way technically affect the present Land Regulations. The trend of the "Agreement of Reforms" should be, first, to increase the influence of ko Chinese population in municipal affairs and, secondly, more correctly to proportion the influence in municipal affairs of the foreign communi-tes. The aim is to revert to those objects envisaged by Judge Feetham and approved by the foreign community ten years ago, viz: "to develop, during the transition period, a genuine system of international partnership in the common interests of China and of the different foreign nations represented in the Settlement" With Judge Feetham it is asked: "Is it to" much to hope that the communities will combine to remove the difficulties and anomalies which have hitherto hampered the operation of the Settlement system and diminished its usefulness?" crease in Japanese Councillors, and for the exercise of this greater voice in municipal affairs to the end of achieving reforms in the machinery of the administration, including the finance and tax systems, and to effect a break from the static and fettering bold which they assert an antiquated charter (the Land Regulations) has on the municipal life of the Settle ment.
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