. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . cutive Council. A Guide Book of this nature is hardly the medium for a constitutional history of theColony, so that it will be sufficent to say that until 1856 the District was subordinate to theCape Colony, but in that year was erected into a separate Colony to be administered by aGovernor assisted by an Executive and a Legislative Council. The first Legislative Councilmet in Pietermaritzburg on the 23rd March, 1857, and consisted of four non-elective and 12elective members. From time to time the number of members of this Council w
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . cutive Council. A Guide Book of this nature is hardly the medium for a constitutional history of theColony, so that it will be sufficent to say that until 1856 the District was subordinate to theCape Colony, but in that year was erected into a separate Colony to be administered by aGovernor assisted by an Executive and a Legislative Council. The first Legislative Councilmet in Pietermaritzburg on the 23rd March, 1857, and consisted of four non-elective and 12elective members. From time to time the number of members of this Council was increased,and in 1893 it was composed of 24 elective and seven non-elective members. Of the latterfive were Government officials in charge of the various departments, of the Civil Service. Not so many years after the grant of this form of self-government an agitation sprangup in the Colony having for its object the obtaining of responsible government in its fullestsense, and in both press and Parliament it is easy to trace the gradual progress of the 519. 520
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