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            <text>&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;Page 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Appd ER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;margin-bottom:0;"&gt;10, Downing Street,&lt;br /&gt;Whitehall, S.W.1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mr. Wilson, with his humble duty to The Queen, has the honour to recommend for Your Majesty’s most gracious approval that the persons named on the attached list be appointed members of the Royal Commission which is to be set up to review local government in Scotland.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Terms of Reference are also submitted for Your Majesty’s gracious approval.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:left;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;May 20, 1966&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:center;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Membership of The Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Right Honourable Lord Wheatley, (Chairman)&lt;br /&gt;Miss Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, O.B.E., T.D., M.P. (Mrs. J.F.P. Skrimshire)&lt;br /&gt;Henry Ballantyne, Esquire, D.L., J.P.&lt;br /&gt;The Right Honourable Thomas Fraser, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;Ames Lyall Imrie, Esquire, C.A., F.I.M.T.A.&lt;br /&gt;David Russell Johnston, Esquire, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;James McBoyle, Esquire, C.B.E., D.L.&lt;br /&gt;Hugh Turner MacCalman, Esquire.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;Page 3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;text-decoration:underline;"&gt;TERMS OF REFERENCE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“To consider the structure of Local Government in Scotland in relation to its existing functions: and to make recommendations for authorities and boundaries, and for functions and their division, having regard to the size and character of areas in which these can be most effectively exercised and the need to sustain a viable system of local democracy.”&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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