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IT
8.
The question is one of considerable importance both immediately and
prospectively. If I
own
or my
being induced to decline
to sit in the council, I would then
be allowed
may
for
on
it,
я
to advise Your Lordship
should dissuade any very large
Concession, because it is bound to
be misinterpreted and to fail of
uneful effect. I would, subject to
any compromise which can be effected in regard to gaol extension, allow matters to take their course. If the unofficial members resign, I should
take steps to fill their places, and
in the event of the Justices
Ø
the
Chamber of Commerce refusing to make the two nominations which it is their
privilege to make, or of their nominees
Oy
даму
own
a short time leave their places, as was done in Ceylon 20 years ago, Vacant.
Section IV of the Royal
Instructions of the 19th January 1888
lays down that "the Legislative Pencil
" shall not be disqualified from the
" transaction of business on account
"of
any
vacancie
among
the members
"there f"; and I have no doubt whatever
that firmness will at all events check a movement which is mis-
chirous in its tendencies, which is prouted by only
a
fer, and there
not of the greatest weight in the
Community, and which is not
grounded in
any
real grievance.
I are feally