Appoint-
ment of
Deputy to
Governor.

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(c) if there be no person in the Coloiy so appointed
or designated and capable of discharging the duties of.
administration, the senior, in accordance with the order
herein appearing, of the following officers who is in the
Colony and so capable, that is to say:—

First, the person who holds the substantive appoint-
ment of Colonial Secretary ;

Secondly, the persons who hold the substantive
appointments of Administrator of Antigua and Adminis-
trator of Saint Christopher Nevis and Anguilla, in the
order of seniority assigned by Us, or, in defnult thereof,
in the order of the respective dates of their first appoint-
ments as Administrator in the Colony;

_ Thirdly, the senior Member of the Executive Council
of the Colony.

(2) Before assuming the administration of the Government
any such person as aforesaid shall, in that one of the Presidencies
in which he shall be at the occurrence of the event by virtue of
which he is empowered to administer the Governnient or at
which he shall first arrive thereafter, in the form and manner
prescribed in these Onr Letters, take the caths herein directed
to be taken by the Governor; which being done, We do hereby
authorise empower and command such person, subject, if-he is

- appointed as aforesaid under Our Sign Manual and Signet, to.
. the terms of his appointment, during Our pleasure, to do all

things that belong to the Office of Governor as provided in
these Our Letters.

(3) Any such person as aforesaid shall not continue to
administer the Government after the Governor or some other
officer having a prior right to xdminister the same has notified
that he is about to assume, or resume, the administration.

(4) The Governor or any other person as aforesaid shall
not be regarded as absent from the Colony or prevented from,
or incapable of, acting in the duties of his Office for the purpose
of this Article during his passage from one part of the Colony
to another or when there is a. subsisting appointment of
a Deputy under Article 8 of these Our Letters.

8.—(1) Whenever the Governor—

(a) has occasion to be ubsent from the seat of Gov- |
ernment but not from the Colony; or