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Your telegram No. 371.
Constitution.
To conform with the constitutional position, the fourth paragraph should be amended to read as follows;-
"In accordance, therefore, with these principles the Secretary of State proposes to ask Her Majesty to increase the number of unofficial seats on this Council by five and the official seats by three. Subject to Her Majesty's approval of these proposals, it is proposed to advise Her Majesty that, in the latter category, the officers serving as Director of Commerce and Industry, District Commissioner, New Territories, and Commissioner of Labour should be appointed to the Council. On the floor of the Council there would thus be 13 unofficial and 12 official seats, but the Governor's powers under the constitutional system would be maintained by virtue of his original and casting vote."
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