Resolution XVII. That this X (a) This Conference thanks the Congress is of opinion that the Secretary of State and the proportion of annual recruitment Viceroy for recommending that to the Indian civil service to all racial bars should be be made in England should be 50 abolished and for recognizing per cent. to start with, such the principle of recruiting of recruitment to be by open all the Indian public services competition in India from in India and in England instead persons already appointed to the of any service being recruited Provincial Civil Service. for exclusively in the latter country. _Franchise for Women_ Resolution VIII. Women possessing the same qualifications as are laid down for men in any part of the Scheme shall not be disqualified on account of sex. CONSTITUTION OF COUNCILS CONSTITUTION OF PERIODIC COMMISSION Resolution XIII. That, so far as the question of determining the 9 (b) Some provision should be franchise and the constituence made for the appointment and and the composition of the cooperation of qualified Indians Legislative Assemblies is on the periodic commission concerned, this Congress is of proposed to be appointed every opinion that, instead of being ten or twelve years and it left to be dealt with by should further be provided that Committees, it should be decided the first periodic commission by the House of Commons and be shall come to India and submit incorporated in the statute to its recommendations to be framed for the constitution Parliament before the expiry of of the Indian Government. the third Legislative Council after the Reform Scheme comes Resolution XIV. That as regards into operation and that every the Committee to advise on the subsequent periodic commission question of the separation of should be appointed at the end Indian from provincial functions of every ten years. and also with regard to the Committee if any for the consideration of reserved or an unreserved department, this Congress is of opinion that the principle set forth in the above resolution should apply _mutatis mutandis_ to the formation of the said Committee. Or In the alternative; if a Committee is appointed for the purpose, the two non-official members of the Committee should be elected--one by the All-India Congress Committee and the other by the Council of the Moslem League while the coopted non-official for each province should be elected by the Provincial Congress Committee of that province.