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Belize
Elected Legislative Assembly, 1854-70
Belize
Elected Legislative Assembly, 1854-70
The new constitution replaced the Public Meeting with a
Legislative Assembly with eighteen elected members. In addition,
the superintendent appointed three subordinate colonial officials
who served in the assembly as ex officio, or "official," members.
The elected members had to be British-born or naturalized subjects
and own property worth £400 sterling. The superintendent, who was
appointed by the British government, chaired the assembly and could
dissolve it at will. In 1862, when the Settlement of Belize in the
Bay of Honduras was officially declared a British colony known as
British Honduras, a lieutenant governor subordinate to the governor
of Jamaica replaced the superintendent. Later, a governor replaced
the lieutenant governor. At the end of the decade, however, the
Legislative Assembly petitioned for status as a crown colony,
hoping that the crown would thereby shoulder more of the costs of
defense. In order to accommodate such status, the Legislative
Assembly voted in 1870 to replace itself with an appointed
Legislative Council.
Data as of January 1992
