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  THE SAME--_Continued_.

  The adjourned meeting of certain members of the National Council wasresumed in the Hall of the State House at Plazac on Monday, September2nd, 1907. By motion the same chairman was appointed, and the ruleregarding the record renewed.

  Reports were made by the various members of the Council in turn,according to the State Roll. Every district was represented. Thereports were unanimously in favour of the New Constitution, and it wasreported by each and all of the Councillors that the utmost enthusiasmmarked in every case the suggestion of the Voivode Peter Vissarion as thefirst King to be crowned under the new Constitution, and that remaindershould be settled on the Gospodar Rupert (the mountaineers would onlyreceive his lawful name as an alternative; one and all said that he wouldbe "Rupert" to them and to the nation--for ever).

  The above matter having been satisfactorily settled, it was decided thata formal meeting of the National Council should be held at the StateHouse, Plazac, in one week from to-day, and that the Voivode PeterVissarion should be asked to be in the State House in readiness toattend. It was also decided that instruction should be given to the HighCourt of National Law to prepare and have ready, in skeleton form, arescript of the New Constitution to be adopted, the same to be founded onthe Constitution and Procedure of Great Britain, so far as the same maybe applicable to the traditional ideas of free Government in the Land ofthe Blue Mountains.

  By unanimous vote this private and irregular meeting of "Various NationalCouncillors" was then dissolved.