Artist: Gerry Squires
Portrait Hung: 30 November 1989

Approbation of the Speaker (25 April 1985, Journal)

“The Sergeant-at-Arms preceded his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor to the Chair.

Whereupon the Lieutenant-Governor, having taken his seat, the Honourable the Premier addressed His Honour as follows: 'May it please Your Honour, the House of Assembly, agreeable to Your Honour's Command, have proceeded to the choice of a Speaker, and having elected Patrick McNicholas, Esquire, Member for the District of St. John's Center, to that office, and by their direction, I present him for the approbation of Your Honour.'

His Honour was then pleased to reply:

'On behalf of Her Majesty, I assure you of my sense of your efficiency and I do most fully approve and confirm you as the Speaker.'

Whereupon Mr. Speaker addressed His Honour as follows:

'Your Honour having approved the choice of this House in constituting me its Speaker, it now becomes my duty in the name of the representatives of Her Majesty's Loyal subjects, the people of this Province, to claim respectfully of Your Honour their accustomed rights and privileges, especially that they shall have freedom from arrest during their attendance in Parliament and that I, as Speaker, may have full access to Your Honour's presence at all reasonable times, and that they have confirmed to them all their ancient rights and privlleges which have been confirmed to them by Your Honour Predecessors.'”

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40^th General Assembly, 1^st Session (25 April 1985).

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Approbation of the Speaker (25 April 1985, Hansard)

40^st General Assembly, 1^st Session (25 April 1985).