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subject to any form of external control, within
their allotted sphere, gives rise to a number of
important legal and financial problems and questions
of policy, which I desire to reserve for further
examination. I shall accordingly address you
separately on this question as soon as I am in a
position to do so.
Meanwhile, I have already
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drawn attention in sub-paragraph (h) above to the
necessity for ensuring that, for such time as the
Colony is in receipt of assistance from His Majesty's
Government, the external control exercised over its
finances in consequence of that assistance will be
applied to the finances of the Municipality in so
far as this may be necessary, and to the need for
providing that the Municipality shall carry out the
accounting responsibilities of the Colonial
Government in regard to any Colonial Development
and Welfare scheme with which it may become
concerned.
In this context I would also suggest that it
would be more appropriate to describe the process
of handing over of functions to the Municipal
Council as one of delegation rather than of transfer,
since it is clearly not intended that the
Legislature should surrender its powers and vest
them in the Municipal Council, but rather that the
Legislature should delegate certain of its powers
to the Municipal Council, to be exercised by that
Council.
5. I have referred above to my statement in the
House of Commons on the 5th March, in which I
announced my acceptance of the recommendations in.
paragraphs 43 to 45 of Sir Mark Young's despatch for
a modification of the constitution of the Legislative
These changes will achieve a more direct
Council.
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