The appointment of Juncker was supposed to be made by consensus.

On the same day, the committee also presented its thirty-eighth report dealing with the process for providing a recommendation on the appointment of the Clerk of the Senate and Clerk of the Parliaments.

The Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights shall remain in office until the appointment of a new Registrar for the African Court of Justice and Human Rights.

During the first session of the house Johnston, his compatriots, and four others unsuccessfully opposed a motion that the clerk of assembly should be appointed by the crown.

Obsessed with what he perceived to be emulation of unacceptable American practices, Carleton saw in assembly appointment of the clerk “one of those usages of the late New England Provinces.