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The second part of this Chapter provides for the setting up of a pengrent Fobof 200ce Commission wageill Comfe0appoint- ments, promotions and transfers in the Federal Public Service once it is established.

(ix) Chapter VIII. The Federal Judicature

This Chapter provides for the establishment of a Federal Supreme Court whose members will include at least three Judges who are not members of the High Courts of the three Territories. It is intended that this Court shall have original jurisdiction and also be the Court of first appeal from the High Courts of the three Territories. A number of other matters connected with the establishment of the Federal Supreme Court will require further examination by a Judicial Commission, whose terms of reference are also given in this Chapter. (x) Chapter IX. Miscellaneous

This Chapter deals with a number of matters not dealt with in other parts of the scheme. Included among these are the provisions for the amendment of the Constitution. These require that all amendments must be carried by a two-thirds majority of the total membership of the Federal Assembly and be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure. There is also provision that if a Territorial Legislature or the African Affairs Board has objected to any Bill to amend the Constitution Her Majesty's assent to the Bill can be given only by Order in Council which would be laid in draft before the United Kingdom Parliament. The scheme makes it clear that power to amend the Constitution includes power to institute a second chamber if at any time that is thought desirable.

CONCLUSION

13. The scheme endeavours to safeguard the essential interests of the three Territories and all their inhabitants and to strike à fair balance between the need to create a Federation possessing, both economically and politically, adequate scope and strength for its work and the requirement that the Territories themselves shall continue to exist as vigorous entities, independent of the Federation within the sphere of government assigned to them.

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(Sgd.) SALISBURY.

OLIVER LYTTELTON.

G. M. HUGGINS.

G. M. RENNIE.

G. F. T. COLBY.