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IV. The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, for Our confirmation or disallowance, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, every provisional appointment of any person as a Member of the said Executive Council.
Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument under the Public Seal revoke any such appointment.
V. The Official Members of the Executive Coun- cil shall take precedence of the Unofficial Members, and among themselves shall have seniority and precedence as We may specially assign, and, in default thereof, first, the exfofficio Members in the order in which their offices are above men. tioned (except that the Senior Military Officer, if below the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after the person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney General), and then other Official Members and all Unofficial Members according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by or in pursuance of the same Instrument, ac- cording to the order in which they are named therein.
VI. The Governor shall forthwith communi- cate these Our Instructions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from time to time, as We may direct, or as he shall find convenient for Our service to impart to them.
VII. The Executive Council shall not proceed to the despatch of business unless duly summoned by authority of the Governor, nor unless two Members at the least (exclusive of himself or of the Member presiding), be present and assisting throughout the whole of the meetings at which any such business shall be despatched.
Such provisional appointments to
be immediately reported.
Precedence,
Governor to communicate Instruc-
tions to Executive Council.
Executive Council not to proceed to business unless summoned by Governor's authority.
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Minutes of Executive Council to
bo kept.
To be transmitted home twice a
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Governor to consult Executive
Council.
Governor aldae entitled to submit
questions.
VIII. The Governor shall attend and preside at all meetings of the Executive Council, unless when prevented by illuess or other grava cause, and in his absence such Member as the Governor may appoint, or in the absence of such Member the senior Member of the Council actually present, shall preside.
EX, Minutes shall be regularly kept of all the proceedings of the Executive Council; and at each meeting of the Council the Minutes of the last preceding meeting shall be confirmed or amended, as the case may require, before pro- ceeding to the despatch of any other business,
Twice in each year a full and exact copy of all Minutes for the preceding half year shall be transmitted to Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.
X. In the execution of the powers and authorities granted to the Governor by Our said recited Letters Patent, he shall in all cases consult with the Executive Council, excepting only in cases which may be of such a nature that, in his judgment, Our service would sustain material prejudice by consulting the Council thereupon, or when the matters to be decided shall be too unimportant to require their advice, or too urgent to admit of their advice being given by the time within which it may be neces- sary for him to act in respect of any such matters. In all such urgent cases he shall, at the earliest practicable period, communicate to the Executive Council the measures which he may so have adopted, with the reasons therefor.
XI. The Governor shall alone be entitled to submit questions to the Executive Council for their advice or decision; but if the Governor decline to submit any question to the Council when requested in writing by any Member so to do, it shall be competent to such Member to
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