Chap. VIT. AGREEMENT DRAWN UP BY COLONISTS. 20& 
Lieut. W. M. Smith, the Company's Surveyor- 
General ; 
R. D. Hanson, Esq. ; 
E. B. Hopper, Esq. ; 
George Duppa, Esq. ; 
George Hunter, Esq. ; 
Henry Moreing, Esq. ; 
Henry St. Hill, Esq. ; 
Thomas Partridge, Esq. ; 
Major I). S. Durie. 
That Colonel William Wakefield shall be the first 
President thereof. That in all cases the Company's 
Principal Agent shall be the President. That the 
Company shall have the power to appoint five addi- 
tional members. That the Committee shall have the 
power to add five additional members. That the num- 
ber of members shall not exceed twenty-five. That 
five members shall be a quorum for all purposes. That 
Samuel Revans, Esq., shall be the first Secretary to the 
Committee. 
5th. That the Committee shall have the power to 
make rules for their meetings, and to appoint the ne- 
cessary officers ; and that a meeting of the Committee 
shall take place within three days after five members 
shall have arrived in the settlement. 
6th. That the Committee shall have power to ap- 
point a person who shall be called an Umpire ; and that 
George Samuel Evans, Esq., barrister-at-law, shall be 
the first Umpire. That the Umpire shall preside in all cri- 
minal proceedings, and, assisted by seven Assessors, shall 
decide on the guilt or innocence of the party accused. 
7th. That if the party be declared guilty, the Um- 
pire shall state the punishment to he inflicted ; pro- 
vided that, without the special approval of the Com- 
mittee, no imprisonment to he stated by the Umpire 
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