to any Offender convicted of any crime in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate, within Our said Colony, a Pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any Eespite of the Execution of the sentence of any such Offender, for such period as to you may seem fit, and to remit any Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures which may become due and payable to Us. 7. And We do further Authorize and Empower you, so far as We lawfully may, upon sufficient cause to you appearing, to Remove from his Office, or to suspend from the exercise of the same, any Person exercising any Office or Place within Our said Colony, under or by virtue of any Commission or Warrant granted, or which may be granted, by Us in Our Name or under Our Authority. 8. And whereas it has been represented to Us that the necessities of Our Service in Our said Colony occasionally require that you should absent yourself from the Seat of Government in the Province of Wellington, whereby the affairs of the said Province might be exposed to detriment if there were no Person iv the place who should be Authorized to exercise the Powers and Authorities which We have by this Our present Commission given and granted to you, Our Governor: Now We do hereby Authorize and Empower you 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 Wellington, 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 this Our Commission and the instructions under Our Sign-Manual and Signet herein 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. 9. And We do hereby further Authorize and Empower you to Exercise all Powers lawfully belonging to Us in respect of the Summoning, Proroguing, or Dissolving any Legislative Body, now or hereafter established within Our said Colony, and in respect of the Appointment of Members thereto. 10. And We do by these presents Authorize and Empower you, within Our said Colony, to Exercise all such Powers as We may be entitled to exercise therein in respect of granting Licenses for Marriages, Letters of Administration, and Probates of Wills, and with respect to the custody and management of Idiots and Lunatics, and their estates. 11. And We do hereby Declare Our Pleasure to be that, in the event of your Death, Incapacity, or Absence out of the said Colony, all and every the Powers and Authorities herein granted to you shall, until Our further Pleasure is signified therein, be vested in such Person as may be appointed by Us under Our Sign-Manual and Signet, to be Our Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Colony, or if there shall be no such Lieutenant-Governor in Our said Colony, then in such Person or Persons as may be Appointed by Us under Our Sign-Manual and Signet to Administer the Government of the same. Provided that no such Powers or Authorities shall vest in such Lieutenant-Governor, or such other Person or Persons, until he or they shall have taken the oaths ppointed to be taken by the Governor of Our said Colony, and in the manner provided by the Instructions accompanying this Our Commission. 12. And We do hereby Eequire and Command all Our Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all other the Inhabitants of Our said Colony of New Zealand, to be Obedient, Aiding, and Asssisting unto you the said Sir James Fergusson, or in the event of your Death, Incapacity, or Absence, to such Person or Persons'as may, from time to time, under the provisions of this Our Commission, Administer the Government of Our said Colon)'. In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the eighteenth day of February, in the thirty-sixth year of Our Ecign. By Warrant under the Queen's Sign-Manual. C. EOLJILLY

VICTOBIA E, Instbuctions to Our Eight Trusty and Well-Beloved Councillor Sir James Forgusson, Baronet, Our Governor and Commander-in-ChieJ: in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, or in his absence to Our Lieutenant-Governor or the Officer Administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies for the time being. Given at Our Court, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this Eighteenth day of February, 1.873, in the Thirty-sixth Year of Our Eeign. 1. Whereas bra Commission under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing even data herewith, We have constituted and appointed you to be during Our pleasure Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and have further authorized and commanded you in due manner to do and execute all things that shall belong to your said command and the trust thereby reposed in you, according to the several Powers and Directions therein mentioned, and particularly according to such Instructions as should therewith be given to you. Now, therefore, We do by these Our Instructions under Our SignManual and Signet, being the Instructions so referred to as aforesaid, Declare Our Pleasure to be that you shall, with all due solemnity, cause Our said Commission to be read and published in the presence of the Chief Justice for the time being or other Judge of the Supreme Court of Our said Colony, and of the Members of the Executive Council thereof. And. you shall then and there take the Oath of Allegiance iv the form provided by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Tears of Our Eeign, intituled " An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths." And likewise that you take the usual Oath for the due execution of the Office of Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our said Colony, and for the due and impartial administration of Justice ; which Oaths the said Chief Justice for the time being of Our said Colony, or in his absence any Judge of the Supreme Court of Our said Colony, shall, and he is hereby required to tender and administer unto you. 2 And We do Authorize and Eequire you from time to time and at any time hereafter, by you or by ;iny other Person to be Authorized by you in that behalf, to Administer to all and to every P or Persons, as you shall think fit, who shall hold any Office or Place of Trust or Profit, the sai d \x

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