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powers and authorities therein mentioned, and have further declared our 

 ])leasure, to be that the said council shall consist of such and so many 

 members as have been, or may thereafter for that ]mrpose be, nominated 

 an<l appointed by us under our royal sign manual and signet, or as should 

 be previously appointed by you until our pleasure therein shall he 

 known : Provided always that the total number of the members of the 

 said leo-islative council resident within our said province, shall not at any 

 time, bv any such provisional appointment, be raised to a greater number 

 in the whole than twenty-one : JSTow know you that Ave, reposing 

 especial trust and contidence in the wisdom, prudence, and ability of the 

 persons who are now members of the said legislative council, do, by these 

 our instructions, re-constitute and re-appoint each and all of them to be 

 legislative councillors for our said province during our pleasure. 



" YII. And we do especially require and enjoin that whenever you 

 shall think tit in the exercise of the authority hereby vested in you, to 

 appoint any person or persons provisionally as aforesaid to be a member 

 or members of our said legislative council, you do in every such case 

 forthwith transmit to ns through one of our principal secretaries of state 

 the names and the qualitications of the several members so provisionally 

 appointed by you to be members of our said council to the intent that 

 the said appointments may be either contirmed or disallowed, as we shall 

 see occasion, 



'• IX. And it is our will and pleasure that if any of the members of 

 our said council, residing in our said province, shall hereafter wilfully 

 absent themselves from the said province, and continue absent above the 

 space of six months together, without leave from you first obtained under 

 our hand and seal, or shall remain absent for the space of one year with- 

 out leave fiven them under our royal signature, his or their place or 

 places in the said council shall immediately thereupon become void ; and 

 if any of the members of our said council residing in our said province 

 shall wilfully absent themselves hereafter from the said council when 

 duly summoned by you, without good and sufficient cause, and shall per- 

 sist in such absence, after being thereof admonished by you, you are to 

 suspend such councillors absenting themselves, till our further pleasure 

 be known thereon, giving immediate notice thereof to us, through one of 

 our principal secretaries of state. And we do hereby will and require you 

 that this our royal pleasure be signified to the several members of our 

 said council, and that it be entered in the council books as a standing rule." 



XXXUl. Cases op Bankkiptcy in 1861 and 1883, and Course 



Followed. 



In the session of 1883, the whole question of the tenure of a legislative 

 councillor came up for consideration in the legislative council of Nova 



