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understood that neither
he
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his predecessors
in the command have
been omitted from the
Council through inad-
vertence, but that the
Senior Military Officer
has never been expressly
designated ordinary Members,
as one of the
"It appears that by the
earliest Royal Instructions,
the Governor
was
empowered to appoint three
Members of the Council,
and that he exercised
in 1843
this power in
favour of General
D'Aguilar, then com-
manding
the Troops;
but this Officer's
name
does
not
appear
in the
Blue Book
as a Member of Council
after 1844; and the
subsequent commanding Officers appear not to
have been so appointed
up to 1839 when the
Instructions were revoked.
In 1835 however
Colonel d'Aguilar, the Lieu-
tenant Governor, was appointed personally by
the Sovereign under the
Sign Manual; but it
does