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appointments, but no salary is to be paid till the parties are in the actual 

 possession of the office ; and if a vacancy of Governor occurs when no pro- 

 visional successor is on the spot, the Counsellor next in rank is to succeed, 

 till a successor arrives, or a person on the spot is appointed. During this 

 interval, if the Council should be reduced to one member only, besides the 

 acting Governor, he may call a senior merchant to act as a temporary 

 Counsellor till the arrival of a Governor, or a fresh appointment be made: 

 the salaries are only to be paid for the periods the offices are held, although 

 no provisional successor be on the spot. The Commander in Chief is not to 

 succeed as Governor, unless specially appointed so to do. If a vacaucy occurs 

 in the Council, and no provisional Counsellor be present, the Governor and 

 Council may appoint a Counsellor from the senior merchants. If the Gover- 

 nor and Commander in Chief are different persons, the latter may be 

 appointed by the Directors the second in Council. The Commander in 

 Chief of India, not being the Governor General, is to have a seat in Council 

 when at Fort St. George. The local Commander in Chief is to have a 

 seat also while the Commander in Chief of India may be present, but not to 

 have a vote. 



When in Council, to proceed in the first place to matters proposed by 

 the Governor ; and on any question of the Counsellors, the Governor may 

 twice adjourn the discussion for forty-eight hours. All proceedings to be 

 stated as made by the Governor and Council, and signed by the Chief 

 Secretary. 



If the Governor differs in opinion with the Council, after they shall 

 have stated their opinions in writing, he may direct such measures thereon 

 as he may see fit, on his own res|>onsibility, so that such measures could have 

 been legally effected with the consent of the Council ; but these powers are 

 not to be exercised by Governors succeeding in consequence of death, &c. 

 except provisionally appointed, or confirmed by the Directors. While 

 Governors are acting previous to confirmation, all questions are to be decided 

 by a plurality of voices, the Governor having the casting vote ; but in no 

 case to act agaiust the opinion of the Council injudicial matters, or in regu- 

 lations for the good order of civil government, &c; nor by his own authority 

 to impose any tax, &c. When the Governor General may be at Fort St. 

 George, the powers of the Governor there are to be suspended (except in 

 judicial proceedings) from the proclamation of the Governor General's 

 arrival, to the proclamation to the contrary, or until his departure ; the 

 powers of Government during this period are to be vested in the Governor 

 General, the Governor sitting and acting as a Member of Council. 



The Governor and Council are to obey the orders of the Governor 



