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The constant presence of the Governor required by the Queen's Instructions.
Long experience, and that of other Governors, teaches us that
(1.) Many considerations, in a high degree, show that the Official Members of the Legislative Council in a Crown Colony should, as a general rule, have seats in the Executive Council. These gentlemen are expected to support the measures of the Government, or else to resign their offices, like the members of the Ministry in a Parliamentary Government. It is, consequently, only just and reasonable that they, like Ministers elsewhere, should be in a position to understand thoroughly the basis and the details of the measures which they are called upon to support in the Legislative Council, and that they should be fully discussed and settled in the Executive Council.
(2.) It should be provided that, during the absence of any one of the official members of the Executive or Legislative Council, his temporary replacement shall not necessarily fill his seat in the Council, unless he be specially authorised.