A—No. 1

TO SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

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Fifteenth And whereas in and by our said Commission we have granted unto you full power and authority in our name and on our behalf to Grant to any person convicted of any crime in any or the Tribunals of our said Colony an Absolute or Conditional Pardon : Now we do enjoin and require you in every case where you shall be appli. d to for any such pardon, and in any case whatever in which sentence of Death shall have betn passed, to obtain from the Judge who presided at the Trial of any Hiel.Offender, a Report in writing of the proceedings upon any such Trial, and of the evidence then adduced and of the opinion of such Judge whether the conviction of any such offender was obtained in due course of Law, and whether any reason exists for the total or partial remission or commutation of any such sentence. . . v i • j Sixteenth And we do strictly command that you do not upon any occasion permit any such kind of punishment to be inflicted es can in no case be inflicted by the Law of England. Seventeenth. And whereas great prejudice may happen to our Service and to the security of our «aid Colony by the absence of the Governor, you shall not, upon any pretence whatever, quit the said Colony excepting for the purposes contemplated in our said Commission to you, without having tint obtained leave from us for so doicg under our Sign Manual and Signet or through one ot our Principal Secretaries of State,

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS. Victoria R Jn ' noNB t0 Our trmty and we ll-beloved Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of Our Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of JSew Zealand and its Dependencies. Given at Our Court at Windsor, this twenty-eighth day of March, 1862, in the Twenty-fifth year of Our Reign. Whereas We did by Our Commission under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Brita^ and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the twelfth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and ««tv-one in this twenty-fifth year of Our Reign, constitute and appoint you to be Our GoveraorandCommnuder-in-Chiefinando^er Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependences durini Our will and pleasure, and did thereby authorise and command you to do and execute all dnngg n duf—r that snould belong to your sa.d Command, and to the trust we have reposed in .jo» tn «nd in rmriuance of an Act made and passed in the Session nolden in the nttetntn and tteenth vearTour E ign, intituled «An PAct to grant a Representative Constitute to the Coony o/ New Zealand and according to the several powers and directions granted S applted you by Our said Commission and the Instruction and Authorities therewith given you, or bvSfurthw Powers Instructions and Authorities as should at any tome thereafter be granted or apnoimedvou under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our Privy Council or by Ls thOuLhone of <£ Principal Secretaries of State and according to such reasonable Laws as were then n fofce in Our said Colony or should thereafter be made by the General Assembly of Our said Colony And Wherels We did in pursuance of the said recited Act and in the exercise of the power thereby vested in Us by Our Instruction under Our Sion Manual and Signet accompanying Our said CommTssion "nd bearing even date therewith Authorize you in Our Name to summon from time to time to r a"d LelTativf Council such person or persons as you should deem to be prudent and discreet men either in add tion to the then existing Members of the said Council or for supplying any vacanc, which might take place therein by death or otherwise, but so that whole number or the Council should DOt 2 KNOwTu'tiSwrhave revoked and determined that part of Our aforesaid recited Instruction! hntZ more, by which we have limited to Twenty the number of persons who may be !umrnonedbyyou to the^aid Legislative Council and the same is hereby revoked and determined accordingly. We these Qur A(ld ; ti ! I nstructionB under Our Sign And FDKiHKK "« empower you in Our name from time to time to summon to the sa.d l^to<^»l^**^k *» -PP^g r Cai'CieS °r °therWiSe> SUCh additioDal nUmbCr of prudent and discreet persons as you may think expedient.