CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938 — Page 34

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that the opportunity might be taken to

consolidate all the amendments into one

Instrument

Instrument and thus have in force only the

original Instructions of the 14th of February

1917, and one set of Additional Instructions.

With this end in view draft Additional

Instructions have been prepared, a copy of

which I enclose for your consideration.

You will observe that the recitals have been

shortened considerably as compared with

the earlier Additional Instructions, that

the Instrument revokes all the existing

Additional Instructions and replaces certain

clauses of the Instructions of the 14th of

February, 1917. The reasons for the

various amendments which it is now proposed

to make are exaplained in the following

paragraphs of this despatch.

Clause II provides for the

constitution of the Executive Council and

embodies the provisions now contained in

the present blouse II as it appears in

the Additional Instructions of the 15th of

November, 1928, and in Clause I of the

,

Additional

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