1 Treasurer or General Receiver of subscribed }
capital, also to act as Land-Register Keeper, }
3 Guardians of Widows and Orphans, } Appointed by the
1 Conciliator, } Shareholders.
2 Judge-Arbiters, }
1 or more Medical Practitioners, }
In case of quarrel or property dispute, the parties to appear
personally before the Conciliator, and, if he fail in settling the
affair amicably, that he remit to the Judge-Arbiters. Should one of
the parties agree to settle the dispute amicably by the Conciliator’s
advice, and the other party do not, that the latter, should judgment go
against him, pay the whole cost of the arbitration, including pay of
witnesses on both sides. In case the Judge-Arbiters be not unanimous,
to remit to the first meeting of the shareholders.
The Governor, the Boards of Observation and Officers, to be annually
elected, and changeable at any time, wholly or in part, by a general
meeting convened for the specific purpose. All the Executive chosen
by the Governor to vacate with the Governor, and to have no retiring
salary. That one-third of the shareholders, or the Governor, have power
at any time to order the Secretary to convene a general meeting for any
specified purpose, which the Secretary must do immediately, by circular
letter (giving one week’s previous notice) to each shareholder; but in
all cases that the business of the meeting be limited to the object
stated in the requisition.
[10] It would be well did our Home Government limit its cherishing
care to protection,--vessels of war, and a harbour fort or forts in
New Zealand, leaving the internal government entirely to the emigrant
population, with this proviso, that trade in native produce (pernicious
maddening drugs excepted) be free between the parent country and the
colony. This would be the cheapest colonial organization, and also
the one which would attach the colony the most firmly. Instead of
jealousy and discontent (the natural produce of the present system) we
should have pride in the parent country, and honourable enthusiastic
attachment towards it.
[11] Would such a plan not be practicable in Britain?