Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1909 Book 05

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

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Jain Conference Herald.
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by the legislature. Your Excellency's Memorialists have implicit confidence in the good faith of the Government, and they feel no doubt that the Bombay Government will not fail to avail themselves of the first opportunity to nominate a member on the council to voice the sentiments of the Jain community.
9. Your Excellency's Memorialists: pray that, considering the very great importance of tbe Jains, such a representation should be allowed to their community also on the Supreme Legislative Council, and that a declaration to that effect should be made immediately, and incorporated formally into the Regulations which have been recently pnblished, when they are revised for the first time.
10. Your Excellency's Memorialists do not pray for the formation of an eleetorate from amongst their own community for the election of their representatives. But they will rest content with the nomination of some one representative member by Your Excellency in Council, under the powers vested in Your Excellency by the Legislature in that behalf.
11. Your Excellency's Memorialists, however, venture to suggest that before the nomination of such a member on the Council, Your Excellency's Government will consult the three representative Jain bodies, the Jain Swetamber conference, the Jain Digamber Mahasabha, and the Jain Sthanakwasi Con. ference as to the qualifications for eligibility of particular members of:the community.
Your Excellency's Memorialists
therefore pray that one of the seats for nomination in the Supreme Legislative Council which are to be reserved for “Important Minorities” be filled up by the appointment of some