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COUNCIL OF INDIA.

VIII. For the purposes of this act a council shall
be established, to consist of eighteen member?, and
to be styled the Council of India; and henceforth
the council in India now bearing that name shall
be styled the Council of the Governor-General of
India.

IX. The thirteen persona hereinafter named,
viz.:—

shall be members of the said council from the com-
mencement of this act, and such persons and their
successors respectively are hereinafter designated
as the first member of the council, the second mem-
ber of the council, and so on progressively in the
order in which such persons are hereinbefore
named, and the remaining members hereinafter
designated as the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth members respectively,
shall be elected as hereinafter mentioned, as soon
as conveniently may be after the commencement
of this act.

X. Upon every vacancy in any of the offices of
the nine members of the council first named in this
act, and their successors, it shall be lawful for her
Majesty, by warrant under her Royal sign manual,
to appoint some other person to such office, quali-
fied as hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) : the
first member to be a person who has been ten years
at least in such civil service of the government of
India in the north-western provinces, or in terri-
. tories under the direct authority of the Governor-
General in council ; the second member to be a
person who has been ten years at least in such civil
service in the lower provinces of Bengal ; the third
and fourth members respectively to be persons who
have been ten years at least in such civil service in
the Madras and Bombay presidencies respectively.
The fifth member to be a person who has been ten
years at least in India in'the service of the govern-
ment of India, and who during five years at least of
such period has served as political ageat or resident
in any of the native states. The sixth member to
be a person who has served for five years at least in
her Majesty's army in India. And the seventh,
eighth, and ninth members respectively to be per-
sons who have served ten years at least in the
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay armies respectively.
XL. Every vacancy in aoy of the offices of the
tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth members
of the council shall ba supplied by persons to ba
elected as hereinafter mentioned from among per-
. sons who have been ten years at least in India, in
the service of her Majesty or of the government
• of India in any department, whether legal, civil,
naval, or military, or who have been fifteen years
at least resident in India ; and the persons qualified
to vote in the election of such members shall be-
- all proprietors of one thousand pounds or upwards
in the capital stozck of the East India Company ;
all proprietors of capital stock or paid up capital in
any company incorporated by act of Parliament for
making any railway or other public work in India
to the amount of two thousand pounds or upwards
all persons who have teen ten years at least in
India as commissioned officers in the military ser-
vice of her Majesty, cr in the military or naval snr-
vice of the East India Company, or as civil servants
of the East India Company, or in the civil service
of her Majesty : provided always, that no person
shall be entitled to vote in the election of any such

member as aforesaid unless he have been qualified
as aforesaid for six months before the election, and
be resid/nt in the United Kingdom, and be regis-
tered according to the regulations hereinafter men-
tioned.

XII. The fourteenth member of the council shall
be from time to time elected by the persons entitled
to vote in the election of members to serve in Par-

liament for the city of London. The fifteenth mem-
ber of the council shall be from time to time elected

by the persons entitled to vote in the election Gf
members to serve in Parliament for the city of Man-
chester. The sixteenth member of the council

shall be from time to time elected by the persons
entitled to vote in the election of members to s- rve
in Parliament fur the borough of Liverpool. The
seventeenth member of the council shall be from
time to time elected by the persons entitled to vote
in the election of members to serve in Parliament
for the city of Glasgyw : And the eighteenth mem-
ber of the council shall be from time to time elected
by the persons entitled to vote in the election of
numbers to serve in Parliament for the borough of

Belfast And no person shall he elected such four-
teenth, fifteenth, six-eenth, seventeenth, or eigh-
teenth member unless be shall have been during five
years at least engaged in the commerce between
India and the- United Kingdom, or in the manu-
facture of goods for exportation to India, or have
been ten years at least resident in India : For the
election of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth members of the noun-
- cil, warrants shall be forthwith, af.er the com-
mencement of this art, and from time to time
thereafter, as occasion may require, issued by one
of her t..jesty's Principal Secretaries of State
to the returning officers to whom writs for the
election of - members to serve in Parliament
for the said- cities and. boroughs respectively
are by law required to be issued ; and such
elections of members of the council shall be
conducted and had in like manner as elections of
members to serve in Parliament, and the return to
• such warrants shall be made to the S.Tretary of
&ate ; and all laws concerning the expenses of
such last mentioned -elections and otherwise in
relation to such elections, so far as the same are
applicab!s, shall extend to the elections of such
members of the council.
XIII. Six of the first members of the council
appointed by and elected under this act shall go out
'of office at the expiration of two years from the
Pominencerrent of this act, and six others of such
tarot members shall go out of office at the expiration
font* years from such conamencament, and the
'remaining six of such members shall go out of office
at the expiration of six years from such commence-
ment. Th.* members to go out of office at the ex-
piration or !such two years and four years shall in
each Case be three of t h ?
e nine members first named
in this act, and three members from among the
four members last named in this act, and the fir..i
'members elected under this
act and such nine
.firs t -na me d members shall determine by ballot
-among themselves which of their number shall be
the three members to go out of office at the expira-
tion of such two year 3 and four years respectively,
and such four last-mentioned members and first
elected members shall determine among themselves
which of their number shall be the three members
to go out .of office at the expiration of such two
Tears respectively ; and the Secretary of State shall
preside at the taking of every such ballot as afore-
said.

XIV. Every
a vacancy ovaisitill-a appointed or. elected to fill
of offi::e of "Y thtt
cexcp(tration of the term
out.annscriiil
pointed or eleerateruiietZfe
computed from -ern, beto a
be
e-
appointed or elected toxpirDaot"."
ber whose office has bz,CV,,Y void Place eorjaPer %on
by the expiration of his term of ollerwla.aratehan-
appointed or elected for the remainder shall be
term : And evtry person ceasing, or who oi!,u'Znh
o
re-appointment or re-e!ection would cease, to be„
r
member of the council by the expiration
term of shell be capable of being appo'nted
or elected to supply the viriancyocalc.,Leti by auAi
expiration
XV. Council to make regulations as to election 3
of 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th members of council.
XVI. Committee of Council to determine que-
tons at elec ions.
XVII. If upon the occasion of an ele:tion of a
person to supply any vacancy among the tenth,
eleventh, twel,h, and thirteenth members of the
Council, any registered voter be desirous of voting