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Mr. Ma Hsiao-chin was born at Tai-shan Hsien, Kuangtung Province, in 1887. He was a Province Graduate in the Ching regime. Mr. Ma studied in the following schools: School of Political Science, Canton; St. Stephen's College, Hongkong; Columbia University and New York University, U. S. A. Mr. Ma was a prominent meinber of the revolutionary party Tung: Ming Hui, and played important roles in its activities prior to the establishment of the Republic. In January 1912 the Nanking Provincial government awarded Mr. Ma an Order of Merit. In 1913 Mr. Ma was elected a member of the Lower House of the First Parliament which was convoked in Peking in April 1913 and dissolved by Yuan Shih-kai in January 1914.