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CHAPTER IV.
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§ I. Appointments to Public Offices.
63. The regulations comprised in Chapter are not intended to apply to Colonies under Responsible Government, in which
- appointments to Public Offices are made by the Governor with advice of his Executive Council, and are not authorised or confirmed by any Commission or Warrant from the King.
64. In other Colonies Public Offices are generally granted in the name of His Majesty, and holden during His Majesty's Pleasure.
In some cases, however, it is specially provided by law that they shall be granted by the Governor or by the Governor in Council or by some judicial. authority, and in some few cases they are holden during good behaviour.
65. The general rule is, that all Public Offices of considerable rank, trust, and emolument, should be granted by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony in His Majesty's name. The appointment may be made either provisionally, when the Instrument is issued under authority of His Majesty's general instructions and subject to the Royal approval, or absolutely, when the instrument is issued in pursuance of His Majesty's special instructions, which special instructions conveyed to the Governor through one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and. when prescribed by the King's Letters Patent or Instructions, or by local law or other authority in the form of Warrants under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet.
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66. The distinction between Offices which are, and Offices which are not, of considerable rank, trust and emolument, being in itself vague and indefinite, has been rendered as precise as the nature of the case admits, by the following distinction. Offices are classed under three heads:-1, those of which the emoluments do not exceed one hundred pounds per annum; 2, those of which the emoluments exceed one hundred and do not exceed two hundred pounds per annum; 3, and those of
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