the seats on the Executive and Legislative Councils vacated by M. F. A. Cooper on his transfer to Beylon_
Commander Robert Murray Rumsey, R. N., Harbour Master, to be a member of the Executive Council, and Mr. William Chatham, Acting Director of Public Works, to be a member of the Legislative Council. It is my intention to recommend Mr. Ormsby, the newly appointed Director of Public Works for appointment to the vacant seat on the Legislative Council temporarily occupied by Mr. Chatham when he takes up his duties in the Colony, but I consider that Commander Rumsey has a prior claim to the vacant seat on the Executive Council, and I therefore beg to recommend that he be permanently confirmed in the appointment here in reported