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vote, nor have his delegates, who are as a rule the heads 
of the different departments. He is vested with the 
right to suspend, to summon an extraordinary meeting 
and also to dissolve the States, but on his responsibility. 
The order dissolving the States, orders at the same 
time a new election to take place. 
The Governor submits his bills to the Colonial States 
for approval. They have power and authority to reject 
and to refuse their approbation. They have a positive 
right to amend, to initiate legislation, and also a right 
to address the Government for information on matters 
relating to the affairs and interests of the Colony. 
The legislative authority over all tie colonies, vested 
in the Crown, in the terms of and limited by the funda- 
mental law and constitution of the Realm, and therein 
specially circumscribed, continues to be exercised by the 
King in Council. The Crown has authority to cancel a 
Colonial Ordinance in case of its interfering or en- 
croaching on the rights and prerogatives of the Crown 
or conflicting with an Order of the Crown enacted in 
the terms and within the limits as prescribed in the 
constitution of the Realm. In any of these cases the 
Crown has to lay the matter before the Council of 
State, (Raad van State). 
An Ordinance voted by the States, to be valid, does 
not require the approbation of the Crown. It is 
proclaimed and enacted by the Governor but, as a rule, 
not before he has been informed that there is no inten- 
tion on the part of the Crown to which it is immediately 
forwarded, to disallow the ordinance or, in case of his not 
receiving any information of its being disallowed within 
six months after its having been forwarded to the Crown . 
