CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4] — Page 383

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faithful to himm

personally-

And otherwise to take on themselves

personal obligations of a high and special import._

Testablish

Je devolved on me to

Govermente

responsible

in South Australia, and at

that period I had much anxious trouble in arranging precedents, which, I knew, would serve as the mould in which

leach

a

of

the

large Future might eventually be shaped. The relations "Governon to his Ixexcutive

Council under the new

7

Regime

were amongst the most difficult

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and important points to adjust

as

those who assumed the "responsible" position of Ministers became thereby beccutive Councillor

as

such,

and, under their outh were rendered at the same

time individually responsible to the Governon as the Queen's Representative. Nevertheless, this responsibility to the Governor personally attacked itself to the Office of each Minister without interfering with the freest play the Constitution, whilst it enabled the Governon usefully and without obtrusive publicity

to evert just such influence

as

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