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559
dre
"prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder"
sufficient to keep in force and to render still operative the Commission dated the 7th of March, 1884,
this more so as -particularly article 16 of the Letters Patent of 1888 especially refers to such persons as we have appointed while no such words are included in the Letters Patent of 1877. General Barker further argues that the Commission of the 7th of March, 1884, being of general and not of a personal nature, would have been expressly revoked by the Letters Patent of 1888 had it been intended to annul it.
We further point out that if this Commission of 1884 is no longer in force, the Senior Military Officer who is also senior Member of the Executive Council, would, in no event, succeed to the administration