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6. The object of clauses 3 and 4 of this Bill is
to enable the oaths of Members of the Councils to be duly tendered, in the absence of the Governor or Officer Administering the Government, by the person lawfully presiding at the Council.
7. The object of clause 5 of the Bill is to substitute a new Schedule for the Schedule to the principal Ordinance, No. 1 of 1869.
8. In Part I of the old Schedule the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General and the Financial Secretary were required to take the oath of allegiance and the official oath, which were tendered by the Governor.
9. All these officers are ex officio members of the Executive Council, which however now also includes as ex officio official members the Senior Military Officer for the time being in command of Hisajesty's regular troops within the Colony, and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and generally one other appointed official member.
10. In England under the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868 (31 and 32 Vict. c. 72) the First Part of the Schedule comprises the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chancellor, the President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretaries of State, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chief Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, the President of the Board of Trade, the President of the Poor Law Board, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Earl Marshal, the Commander in Chief, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, the Paymaster General, the Postmaster General, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, the President