SUPPLEMENTARY COMMISSION OF COLONEL THOMAS GORE BROWNE, C.B., EMPOWERING HIM TO APPOINT A DEPUTY GOVERNOR IN CASES OF ABSENCE.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1860 Session I, D-04

D—No. 4

SUPPLEMENTARY COMMISSION OF COLONEL THOMAS GORE BROWNE, C.B., EMPOWERING HIM TO APPOINT A DEPUTY GOVERNOR IN CASES OF ABSENCE.

Presented to the Honorable the House of Representatives by Command of His Excellency.

SUPPLEMENTARY COMMISSION OF COLONEL THOMAS GORE BROWNE, C. B.

Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen. Defender of the Faith, to our trusty and well-beloved Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand, Greeting. Whereas We did by Our Commission under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the ninth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Our Reign, constitute and appoint you to be Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand, with all its members and appurtenances whatsoever for and during Our will and pleasure as upon relation being thereunto had will more fully and at large appear. And whereas it has been represented to Us that the necessities of Our service in Our said Colony occasionally require that you should be absent yourself from the Seat of Government in the Province of Auckland, whereby the affairs of the said Province might be exposed to detriment if there were no person in the place who should be authorised to exercise the powers and authorities which We have by Our said Commission given and granted to you Our Governor. Now know you that We do by this Our Supplementary Commission authorise and empower you, the said Thomas Gore Browne, from time to time as occasion shall require, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of Our said Colony, to assign, constitute, and appoint any person to be your Deputy, in the said Province of Auckland, and in that capacity to exercise, perform, and execute during your pleasure, but no longer, all such powers, directions, and authorities as are vested in you by Our said Commission and Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet therein referred to. Provided nevertheless that by the appointment of a Deputy as aforesaid your power and authority as Governor of Our said Colony shall not be abridged, altered, or in any way affected otherwise than We may at any time hereafter think proper to direct. In witness whereof we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the eighteenth day of February, in the twenty-second year of Our Reign. By Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual. G. Romilly.