§ MR. BUCHANANI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether it was by direction of the Colonial Office, or with its assent, that the Governor of Jamaica recently created additional nominated members of the Legislative Council, so as to outnumber the elected members; and, whether, in consequence of the opposition in the Colony, these appointments were subsequently withdrawn.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINI instructed the Governor to take whatever steps were necessary to secure the First Reading of a new Tariff Bill. To carry out those instructions he appointed additional members of Council, and I approved his action in doing so. He subsequently informed me that on the distinct assurance of the elected members of Council that they would co-operate in passing a tariff law, he had allowed the additional members to resign.