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Governor-General is present and dissents from any
measure proposed to or brought before the Council,
This procedure was regulated by Statute 33, George
11, Cap. 52, Sections 47 to 51; these provisions
were repealed by 3 and 4, William IV., Cap. 85, Section
 49, and these, again, were replaced by Statute 33
Victoria, Cap. 3.

The provisions of the last mentioned statute
(1870), on this subject, are as follows :--Whenever
any measure is proposed before the Governor-General
of India in Council, whereby the safety, tranquillity,
and interests of the British possessions in India, or
any part thereof, are, or may be, in the judgment of
the Governor-General, essentially affected, and he
shall be of opinion either that the measure proposed
ought to be adopted and carried into execution, or
that it ought to be suspended or rejected, and the
majority in Council then present shall dissent from
such opinion, the Governor-General may, on his own
authority and responsibility, suspend or reject the
measure in part or in whole, or adopt and carry it
into execution ; but in every such case any two dissentient
 members may require the whole matter, together
 with the notification and copies of minutes recorded
 by Members, to be laid before the Secretary
of State for India.

The Governor-General possesses the power to
frame rules and orders for the more convenient trans.
action of business in Council : and any order made