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called to it when the draft Instruments go to him for conan. A paragraph has been added to IX preserving the precedence of Unofficial M.L.C. reappointed.

CLAUSES IX AND XXX EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUN- CIL MINUTES The words "read over and' have been deleted from these Clauses, as in the case of the Gambia Instructions (See also Gov. 811:1911-12 Hong Kong).

CLAUSE XIII

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Provision has been added for the appointment of official Members by the Governor in pursuance of the Instructions this obviating the necessity for fer Royal Warrants. CLAUSES XIV AND XV. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PROVISIONAL

APPOINTMENTS. Those Clauses have been ampli- fied on what are now the usual lines.

CLAUSE XVI LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS-

VACATION OF SEATS AND REAPPOINTMENT. I have added the proviso-inserted in the Sierra Leone and Gambia Instructions that if a provisional appointment is immediately followed by a definitive appointment, the 6 year term shall date from the former appt.

If an Unofficial is reappointed it gives

him a total service of 12 years, whereas one reap- pointment in Straits and Ceylon gives a man 6 years and 10 years respectively. Is it worth while to reduce the term for new appointees.? CLAUSES XVII and XVIII. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SEATS

DECLARED VOID IN CERTAIN CASES.

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OF RESIGNATION OF UNOFFICIALS. These Clauses are taken from the Straits Instructions. If the Governor concurs they might be included in the Hong Kong

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CLAUSE XXI.

REGISLATIVE COUNCIL → WHO TO PRESIDE.

The Clause agrees with the corresponding Straits Clause and gives the Governor when absent power to appoint any Member to preside.

CLAUSE XIV. RULES UNDER WHICH ORDINANCES ARE TO BE

ENACTED. - is now in the usual form.

CLAUSE ZIVI, BILLS NOT TO BE ASSENTED TO. CLASS 3. affecting Public Officers is omitted, in accor- dance with recent precedent; doubts having been

expressed as to whether in view of this restriction a Governor could assent to an Appropriation Acti AIR FORCES have been added in Class, as decided

in recent Bermuda Instructions.

The modern form of

CLAUSE XXVII. PRIVATE BILLS.

this Clause has been inserted but has been modified somewhat in view of the standing rules, require 2 Advertisements in the Gazette, 2 in some daily paper (and one in a Chinese paper in certain cases) before

the introduction of the Bill, in addition to the

Publication of the Bill at least once in the Gazette

prior to 1st reading, and if amended, onçe prior to

3rd reading.

CLAUSE XXX. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MINUTES. are now

to be sent home after every meeting in accordance wit

Colonial Regulation 185.

CLAUSE XXXII and XXXIII APPOINTMENT AND SUSPENSION

OF OFFICERS. have been amended in order to bring

them more into accord with the Colonial Regulations,

and other R.I.

There is no provision in the existing Instructions for the summoning of extra-ordinary members to w

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