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* The Legislature
89. In our view a bi-cameral Legislature would be inappropriate to the present conditions of British Central Africa, where it would not be easy to provide sufficient representatives to sit on three separate territorial Legislatures and a bi-PamerabontrolfLegislature. In a federal aystem with of single-chamber Legislature, however, it would clearly be undesirable for any one territory to have representation equal to or exceeding that of the other territories combined. We recommend, therefore, that the federal Legislature should consist of a single chamber of 35 members, of whom 17 would represent Southern Rhodesia, 11 Northern Rhodesia, and 7 Nyasaland. Three of the repre- sentatives from each territory would be members specially chosen to represent African interests. In each of the northern territories two of these would be Africans.
90. The fact that the three territories are in different stages of political development makes it in our view neither possible nor desirable that the method of election of members for the federal Legislature should at present be uniform throughout British Central Africa. The methods which we recom- mend for adoption in each territory are set out in Annex VII.
91. The new constitution should provide for the reservation by the Governor-General for His Majesty's pleasure of any bill reported by the African Affairs Board to be detrimental to African interests. The Royal Instructions would, as now, require the Governor-General to refer to the Secretary of State before assenting to certain classes of Bill, e.g., those which appear to be incon- sistent with Treaty obligations or which affect currency.
The Cabinet
92. We recommend that in accordance with normal constitutional practice, the Governor-General should invite the member of the Legislature most likely to be able to command the support of the majority to form a Government. As Prime Minister this member would, in turn, submit to the Governor- General a list of the Ministers he proposed to include in his Cabinet. We think that a convention should be established by which the Prime Minister would select at least one member of his Cabinet from each territory. All Ministers except the Minister for African Interests, whose special position is described in paragraph 50 above, would be responsible to the Legislature in the normal way. The exact number of Ministers would clearly have to be determined by the Prime Minister, but we consider that an appropriate number would be six, including the Minister for African Interests. A suggested division of func- tions among the members of the Cabinet is given at Annex VI.
The Civil Service
93. We recommend that the Central Government should have its own Civil Service with conditions of service and a promotion structure separate from those of the territorial Civil Services. The problems arising in connection with the setting up of the Civil Service are discussed more fully in Annex VIII.
Judicature
94. We recommend that the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Court of Appeal should be the Supreme Court of Judicature for British Central Africa. This Court would be responsible for deciding any question as to the respective powers of the central and territorial Governments, and we recommend that provision should be made whereby any other Court in British Central Africa in which such a question is raised should refer the point by way of case stated direct to the Court of Appeal. We do not expect any serious difficulty to