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INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION.
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through one of Her Principal Secretaires of State, to confinn or disallow any
such Laws and Ordinances as aforesaid in the whole or in part, and to make
and establish from time to time, with the advice of Her Privy Council, all
such Laws or Ordinances as may to Her appear necessary for the peace, order,
and good government of the said Island as fully as if this Order has not been
made.
“ YI. The Legislative Council for the said island shall consist of the High
Commissioner for the time being, and of such other public officers and persons
within the same, not being less than four or more than eight in number, as
shall be named or designated for that purpose by Her Majesty, by any in
struction or instructions, or warrant or warrants, to be by Her for that pur
pose issued under Her Sign-Manual and Signet; or shall be provisionally
appointed, subject to Her Majesty’s will and pleasure, by the High Com
missioner, in pursuance of any instruction or instructions, warrant or
warrants, under such Sign-Manual as aforesaid : Provided always that one
half of the members of the said Council, other than the said High Commis
sioner, shall be persons holding public offices in the said Island, who shall be
styled ‘ official members,’ and the other half shall be inhabitants of the said
Island, who shall be styled ‘ unofficial members,’ and shall hold their seats at
the said Council for a period of two years only, subject to reappointment for
a like period as from time to time may seem fit.
“ VII. In case any member of the said Council shall be temporarily absent
from the said Island, or incapable of acting in the exercise of his office, or in
case he shall die, or from any cause shall cease to be a member of the said
Council, it shall be lawful for the High Commissioner by any instrument
under the seal of the Island to appoint provisionally any fit person to be an
official or unofficial councillor (as the case may be) in the place of such
member ; and in all cases where such provisional appointment shall be made
by reason of the temporary absence or incapacity of such member, so soon as
he shall return to the said Island, or shall be declared by the High Commis
sioner capable of exercising his office of legislative councillor, the person so
provisionally appointed shall cease to be a member of thes aid Council. Every
such provisional appointment may be disallowed by Her Majesty, through one
of Her Principal Secretaries of state, or may be revoked by the High Com
missioner, by such instrument as aforesaid.
“ VIII. Every legislative councillor shall, notwithstanding anything here
inbefore contained, hold office during Her Majesty’s pleasure, and whenever a
Councillor shall from any cause cease to hold office, the said Council may
continue to transact business, and its proceedings shall be valid, notwith
standing that the proportion between the official and unofficial members may
be temporarily altered, pending the appointment, provisionally or otherwise,
of a new member in the place of the Councillor ceasing to hold office as afore
said.
“ IX. The official members of the Council shall take precedence of the
unofficial members, and shall take rank among themselves in the order of
precedence of their respective public offices, or, in case of any doubt, as the
High Commissioner shall direct. The unofficial members shall take rank
according to the date of their appointment, or if appointed by the same in
strument, according to the order in which they are named therein, unless the
High Commissioner shall, in any case, otherwise direct.
“ X. The High Commissioner, or in his absence any member of the Council
appointed by him in writing, or in default of such appointment the member
present who shall stand first in order of precedence, shall preside at every
meeting of the said Council. All questions brought before the Council shall
be decided by the majority of the votes given, and the High Commissioner
or Presiding Member shall have an original vote on all such questions, and
also a casting vote if the votes shall be equally divided.
*. “ XI. Until otherwise provided by the Council no business (except that of
adjournment) shall be transacted, unless there shall be present three Member’s
of Council besides the High Commissioner or Presiding Member.
“ XII. The Council shall in the tnmsaction of business and passing of laws
conform as nearly as may be to such instructions under Her Majesty’s Sign-
Manual and Signet as may hereafter be addressed to the High Commissioner
in that behalf.