Explanation:

• The council had four members of the Council elected by the Court of Directors.
• The first three members were permitted to participate on all occasions, but the fourth member was only allowed to sit and vote when legislation was being debated.
• In 1858, the British Crown took over the administration from the East India Company.
• The council was transformed into the Imperial Legislative Council, and the Court of Directors of the Company which had the power to elect members of the Governor-General's Council ceased to have this power.
• Instead, the one member who had a vote only on legislative questions came to be appointed by the Sovereign, and the other three members by the Secretary of State for India.