with general satisfaction. He requested the Justices accordingly, at their perfect convenience, within the next month or six weeks, to return him the names of any two gentlemen whom they might consider as eligible for the office in question.
At a meeting held on the 6th December, at the Club Пlouse, Megara, David Jardine and Joseph Frost Edger were elected by a majority of votes as members of the Legislative Council. The Justices, however, did not think this a favourable opportunity to interfere with municipal management, and declined the Governor's offer, at the above-mentioned meeting, to go into the question. The names having been submitted to the Governor, the latter on the 17th December informed the Justices that he would submit them to the Secretary of State
'as gentlemen in his estimation in every way qualified for seats in the Legislative Council of this Colony.' From this it appeared that the non-officiál members were not to take their seats until the formality of submitting their names to Earl Grey had been complied with. It was one of the misfortunes of this Colony that, from the carliest days, the Executive had been ingenious in inventing pretexts by which established customs might be departed from...
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Lord Grey's despatch directing the admission of the new members to be chosen from the civil community was received on the 11th September. Had that despatch been acted upon with the usual celerity, these members could have been selected
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