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INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION.
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person exercising the same, which suspension shall continue and have effect
only until Her Majesty’s pleasure therein shall be made known and signified
to the High Commissioner. And in proceeding to any such suspension, he is
to observe the directions in that behalf given to him by any such instructions
under Her Majesty’s Sign-Manual and Signet as may be hereafter addressed
to him.
“ XXV. There shall be in the said Island, for the purpose of advising the
High Commissioner, an Executive Council, which shall be composed of such
persons and constituted in such manner as may be directed by any instruc
tions which may from time to time be addressed to the High Commissioner
by Her Majesty, under Her Sign-Manual and Signet, and all such persons
shall hold their places in the said Council during Her Majesty’s pleasure ;
and the said Executive Council shall observe such rules in the conduct of
business as may from time to time be contained in any such instructions
as aforesaid.
“XXVI. In the event of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence from
the said Island of the High Commissioner for the time being, all and every
the powers and authorities herein granted to him shall, until Her Majesty’s
further pleasure is signified therein, be vested in such person as may be
appointed to administer the same by any instrument under Her Majesty’s
Sign-Manual and Signet; or if there be not in the Island any person so
appointed, then in the senior military officer for the time being in command
of Her Majesty’s regular troops in the said Island.
“ XXVII. The following Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council
that is to say : the Order of the 12 th day of December, 1873, for the Regula
tion of Consular Jurisdiction in the Dominions of the Sublime Porte ; the
Order of the 13th day of May, 1875, for the Regulation of Hospital Dues
levied on British Shipping within the said Dominions ; and the Order of the
26th day of October, 1875, amending the said Order of the 12 th day of
December, 1873, shall cease to have any force and effect in the Island of
Cyprus from and after a day to be named in a proclamation to be issued
in the said Island by authority of the High Commissioner, with such saving
and exceptions (if any) as may be contained in such proclamation.
“ XXVIII. This Order shall commence and have effect as follows : —
“ (a.) As to the appointment of the High Commissioner, and the issue of
any instructions immediately from and after the making of this
Order.
“ (b.) As to all other matters'and provisions comprised and contained in this
Order immediately from and after a day to be named in any Pro
clamation to be issued in the said Island by authority of the High
Commissioner.
“ And this Order shall remain in force until the same shall be revoked or
altered by Her Majesty with the advice of Her Privy Council.
“And the Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury and the Right
Honourable Viscount Cranbrook, two of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries
of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, are to give the neces
sary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
“ C. L. Peel.”
ECCLESIASTICAL ADMINISTRATION.
The ecclesiastical division of the island is into an Arch-
hishopric and three Bishoprics. The Archiepiscopal diocese is that
of Nicosia, and comprises the Famagusta and Karpas districts.
The dioceses of the three bishops are Larnaca, Baffo, and Cerinea.
The number of the Christian clergy in Cyprus is said to exceed
1,700. The incomes of the archbishop, bishops, and the clergy, are
derived from the people on the voluntary system, and are therefore
fluctuating. Consul White, in his report of 1863, says that the
Dioceses