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The first
is the Political
administration of the colony. It
A.
appears to 8. his foot that it
will be necessary
that
a
Legislative
Power should be vested somewhere, and that it should probably be entrusted to a Governor, and an Council, nominated in some
mode or other by the Crown 4. his foot conceive that
any
popular form of Govt.
would be wholly
unsuited to the
existing, or probable, condition
of
the Colony. Assuming this to be correct, #. his
foot would wish to have your opinion how such a Council
should be constituted, whether
wholly, or partially of official servants of
the Crown; and also
whether the precedent of India should be followed
in
regard
to the
power to be conferred on the
Governor of the Colony, and that the Governor, like the Governors in India, should have the power of overruling the decision