If they could not obtain this concession, they were directed to insist as earnestly as possible upon their right to present a double.
list of candidates, from which he was to make nominations.

And if the one and the other proposition should be refused, the States were then to agree that his Excellency should freely choose and appoint a council of state, consisting of native residents from every Province, for the period of one year.

The committee was further authorised to arrange the commission for the governor, in accordance with these points; and to draw up a set of instructions for the state-council, to the satisfaction of his Excellency.

The committee was also empowered to conclude the matter at once, without further reference to the States.
Certainly a committee thus instructed was likely to be sufficiently pliant.

It had need to be, in order to bend to the humour of his Excellency, which was already becoming imperious.