Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [‎19v] (43/968)

Ordinances
to be sent
home
authenti
cated.
Collection of
Ordinances
to be
published.
Disposition
of Crown
lands.
Appoint
ments to be
provisional
and during
pleasure.
Regulation
of power of
pardon in
capital
cases.
into immediate operation, he is authorized to enact such Ordinance,
unless the same shall impose import or export duties or additional
taxation or shall be inconsistent with any obligations imposed upon
Us by Treaty, but he is to transmit to Us, by the earliest oppor
tunity, the Ordinance so enacted, together with his reasons for
enacting it.
17. When any Ordinance shall have been enacted by the
Governor, he shall forthwith transmit to Us through one of Our
Principal Secretaries of State a full and exact copy in duplicate of
the same duly authenticated under the Public Seal and by his own
signature. Such copy shall be accompanied by such explanatory
observations as may be required to exhibit the reasons and occasion
for passing such Ordinance.
18. At the earliest practical period at the commencement of each
year, the Governor shall cause a complete collection to be published,
for general information, of all Ordinances enacted during the
preceding year.
19. Before disposing of any vacant or waste lands to Us belong
ing the Governor shall cause such reservations to be made thereout
as he may think necessary for roads or other public purposes. The
Governor shall not, directly or indirectly, purchase for himself any
land or buildings to Us belonging without special permission given
to him on that behalf through one of Our Principal Secretaries
of State.
20. All Commissions to be granted by the Governor to any
person or persons for exercising any office or employment shall,
unless otherwise provided by law, be granted during pleasure only. 21
21. Whenever any offender shall have been condemned by the
sentence of any Court in the Colony to suffer death the Governor shall
call upon the Judge who presided at the trial to make him a written
report of the case of such offender, and shall cause such report to
be taken into consideration at a meeting of the Executive Council,
and he may cause the said Judge to be specially summoned to attend
at such meeting and to produce his notes thereat. The Governor
shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender unless it shall appear
to him expedient so to do upon receiving the advice of the Executive
Council thereon ; but in all such cases he is to decide either to extend
or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to his own deliberate
judgment, whether the Members of the Executive Council concur
therein or otherwise ; entering, nevertheless, on the Minutes of the
Executive Council a Minute of his reasons at length, in case he
should decide any such question in opposition to the judgment of
the majority of the Members thereof.