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It ia laid down in Clause II of the Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, dated the 10th March. 1925,
that the Executive Council of the Colony shall, save as thereinafter provided, consist of such persons noc exceeding four,
holding public offices within the Colony as tbe Governor may. 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 be abseut 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 such
vacancy.
In addition to the Members appointed under the above-mentioned clause the Governor may, by an Inst rn ment
made iu His Majesty's name and under the Public Seal of the 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 summon such
Additional Members to tbe meetings of the said Executive Council ou any occasion on which he shall think it desirable
to obtain their advice.
Provided that meetings of the said Executive Council shall be held to be duly constituted notwithstanding that the
said Additional Members may not have been summoned thereto.
A n Additional Member of the Executive Couucil shall vacate his seat as such Additional Member at the end of
three years from the date of the Instrument by which he is appointed.