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common executive, legislature and judiciary, by the name of "THE UNITED STATE OF RAJASTHAN", hereinafter referred to as the United State; and

(b) to include in the United State so established any other State, the Ruler of which enters into an agreement with the Raj Pramukh and with the approval of the Government of India to the integration of that State with the United State of Rajasthan.

(2) The terns of any such agreement of integration as is referred to in clause (b) of paragraph (1) of this Article shall be binding on the United State and shall be deemed to be part of this Covenant.

Article III

(1) There shall be a Council of Rulers consisting of the Rulers of all the Covenanting States:

Provider that no Ruler who is less than 21 years of age shall be a member of the Council.

(2) The Council of Rulers shall elect at a meeting one member of the Council to be the President, another two to be Senior Vice-Presidents and two others to be Junior Vice-Presidents of the Council.

(3) For the purposes of the elections referred to in the preceding paragraph, every member shall have such number of votes as is equal to the number of lakhs in the population of his State as ascertained at the last preceding census (any fraction more than half a lakh being reckoned as one lakh and any other fraction being ignored), provided that every member shall have at least one vote.

(4) A Ruler elected as the President or as a Vice-President of the Council sha!l be entitled to hold office as such President or Vice-President, as the case may be, for a term of five years from the date on which be enters upon the duties of that office.

(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding paragraphs of this Article, the present Rulers of Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kotah, Bundi and Dungarpur shall respectively be the first President, Senior Vice-Presidents and Junior Vice-Presidents of the Council of Rulers, and shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the thirtieth day of March 1949. The said President shall be entitled to hold office during his lifetime, and the said Vice-Presidents for a term of five years from the said date.

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