MONTSERRAT.

Establishment
and constitn-
tion of Board.

Constitution
and proceed-
ings of the
Board.

Proceedings
on default of
Board,

2 Sotton Marketing. No. 6 of 1955.
“member”? means a» member of the Board;

“person” includes any body of persons
corporate or unincorporate ;

“ Secretary’? means the Secretary of the
Board.

3. (1) For the purpose of marketing all
cotton produced in Montserrat and for the other
purposes of this Ordinance, there shall be established
a Board which shall be a body corporate by the
name of the Cotton Marketing Board with perpetual
succession and a common seal, which body shall be
entitled to negotiate sales of cotton, to sign
contracts therefor, and to control the export of
cotton for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) The common seal of the Board shall not
be affixed to any instrument whatsoever except by~
the authority of a resolution of the board and in
the presence of the Chairman and the Secretary
who shall sign their names to the instrument in
token of their presence.

(3) The seal shall be kept in the custody of
the Secretary or, in his absence from the Presidency,
by the Agricultural Superintendent.

4. The Board shall be constituted and its
proceedings shall be determined in accordance with
the provisions contained in the first Schedule to
this Ordinance.

5. (1) If the Board, in the judgment of the
Governor in Council, makes default in the per-
formance of the duties, by this Ordinance or by
any other law of this Colony, imposed upon it or
exceeds or nbuses its powers, it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, by an order, published in
the Gazette, to dissolve the Board.

(2) In case of such dissolution the following

_congsequences shall ensue, namely:—

(a) All members of the Board shall,
from the date of such order, vacate their
offices.