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determined on continuing in power the same chiefs, the same member and the same Executive Council, being the peoples last choice; and that they should still continues, until elections could be resumed under the constitution- until one, however, was to be removeable, according to the provisions of the constitution, in the event of misconduct; and there was a mode prescribed for supplying vacancies. This is the system under which the government [hav] been carried on ever since the time here mentioned, and under which it still continues [toh] addministered.