ouAp. 111] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 153 
V. And We do further direct and enjoin that Our said 
Governor do attend and preside at the meetings of Our said 
Executive Council, unless when prevented by some necessary 
or reasonable cause ; and that in his absence such Member 
as may be appointed by him in that behalf, or, in the 
absence of any such Member, the Senior Member of the said 
Executive Council actually present shall preside at all such 
meetings, the seniority of the Members of the Council being 
regulated according to the order of their respective appoint- 
ments as Members of Our said Council. 
VI. And we do further direct and enjoin that a full and 
exact Journal or Minute be kept of all the deliberations, acts, 
proceedings, votes, and resolutions of Our said Executive 
Council, and that at each meeting of the said Council the 
Minutes of the last meeting be read over, confirmed, or 
amended, as the case may require, before proceeding to the 
despatch of any other business. And We do further direct 
that twice in each year a full transcript of all the Minutes of 
the said Council for the preceding half year be transmitted 
to Us through one of our Principal Secretaries of State. 
VII. And We do further direct and enjoin that, in the 
execution of the powers and authorities committed to Our 
said Governor by Our said Letters Patent, he shall in all 
cases consult with Our said Executive Council, excepting 
only in cases which may be of such a nature that, in his 
judgment, Our service would sustain material prejudice by 
consulting Our Council thereupon, or when the matters to 
be decided shall be too unimportant to require their advice, 
or too urgent to admit of their advice being given by the 
time within which it may be necessary for him to act in 
respect of any such matters. Provided that in all such 
urgent cases he shall subsequently, and at the earliest 
practicable period, communicate to the said Executive 
Council the measures which he may so have adopted, with 
the reasons thereof. 
VIII. And We do authorize Our said Governor, in his 
discretion, and if it shall in any case appear right, to act in 
the exercise of the power committed to him by Our said 
Letters Patent, in opposition to the advice which may in 
any such cases be given to him by the Members of Our said 
Executive Council. Provided, nevertheless, that in every 
such case he shall fully report to Us by the first convenient 
opportunity such proceeding with the grounds and reasons 
thereof. 
The terms of the Newfoundland instructions are decidedly