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It is laid down in the Instructions under tbe Royal Sign Manual and Signet, dated the 10th March, 1925, that the
Executive Council of the Colony shall, save as thereinafter provided, consist of snch persons not exceeding four, holding
pubhc offices within the Colony as the Governor m a y by an Instrument or Instruments made in His Majesty's
name and under the Public Seal of the Colony, constitute and appoint to be Members thereof. Whenever any such
Member shall die, or resign his seat in the said Council, or he absent from the Colony, or be lawfully suspended from his
office, or become from any cause incapable of discharging the duties thereof, the Governor may by any such
Instrument as aforesaid nominate any other person w h o m he shall thinkfit,being within the Colony, tofillany auch
vacancy.
In addition to the Members appointed under the preceding clause the Governor may by an Instrument
made in His Majesty's name and under the Public Seal of tbe Colony, appoint any? fit persons residing in the
Colony, not exceeding three in number at any one time, to be Members of the said Executive Council, and s u m m o n such
Additional Members to the meetings of the said Executire Council ou any occasion on which he shall think it desirable
to obtain their advice.
Provided that meetings of the said Executire Council shall be held to be duly constituted notwithstanding that the
said Additional Members may noe have been summoned thereto.
If any elected Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony be appointed an Additional Member of the said
Executive Council he shall cease to be such Additional Member as soon as he ceases to be a Member of the Legislative
Council, and if any person who :•> not an elected Member of the Legislative Council be appointed to be an Additional
Member of the Executive Council he shall vacate his seat as such Additional Member at the end of three years from the
date of tbe Instrument by which he is appointed.
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