smAP. iI] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 967 
3 4. Tue GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES 
The provisions of the Act?! for the administration of the 
provinces are the most original in the whole Constitution, 
and are not unworthy of close consideration. The provinces 
are not in any way to be set up as rivals to the Union, and 
therefore the system of government must not be a replica, 
in however faint a form, of the central government : the 
party system is to be continued in the ordinary central 
government, but it is not to be allowed to remain in force in 
the provinces. Therefore the legislature of the provinces is 
in no sense to be a Parliament and the executive is not to 
be an Executive Council, but an Executive Committee. 
The head of the Administration is to be an Administrator, 
who will be appointed by the Governor-General in Council, 
preferably from among residents of the province, and will 
hold office for five years, before which period he can only 
be removed by the Governor-General in Council for cause 
assigned, which shall be communicated to Parliament within 
a week after the removal if Parliament be sitting, and if not, 
within a week after the commencement of the next session. 
The Administrator will receive a salary fixed and paid by 
Parliament, and such salary cannot be diminished during his 
tenure of office. These provisions are borrowed from the 
practice of the Canadian Provinces, but in other respects the 
Administrator has no such important position as the Lieu- 
tenant-Governors of Canada, who have to govern with the 
help of Executive Councils commanding the assent of Parlia- 
ments.2 The Administrator is to be assisted in carrying on 
the Executive Government by a Committee of four (three to 
five in the original draft) members, who are to be elected by 
the Provincial Council at its first meeting after each general 
election, according to the principle of proportional represen- 
tation with the single transferable vote. The members are 
to receive salaries fixed by the Council, and will hold office 
antil the appointment of their successors by the Council 
‘ gs. 68, 60, 78-84. The salaries of the Administrators are £2,500 in 
the Cape and Transvaal, £2,000 in the others. 
® See e.g Canada Sessional Papers, 1900, No. 174,