of the circumstances
of the Colony,
239 proposals with regard to the Executive Council, and the opinion that an Executive Council of seven Members would be unnecessarily large, and that the Office of Treasurer, which is generally united with another Office, and has only a salary of four thousand eight hundred and sixty Dollars per year, should not be specified as conferring a seat in that Council.
In other respects I generally approve your proposals. I send on the Draft.
2.B. It is a draft. The Day Council Instrument shall be prepared for adding the present Registrar General to the Council, thus raising the number to six.
3. Turning to the Legislative Council, I have the honour to inform you that the question whether the Officer commanding H.M. Troops should be a Member of that body