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of Allegiance, together with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any Laws or Statutes in that behalf made and provided. 3. And We do require you to communicate forthwith to Our Executive Council for Our said Colony these Our Instructions, and likewise all such others, from time to time, as you shall find convenient for Our service to be imparted to them. 4. And We do hereby Direct and Enjoin that Our said Executive Council shall not proceed to the Despatch of Business unless duly summoned by your Authority, nor unless Two Members at the least (exclusive of yourself or the Member presiding) be present and assisting throughout the whole of the Meetings at which any such Business shall be despatched. 5. And We do further Direct and Enjoin that you do Attend and Pr3side at the Meetings of Our said Executive Council, unless when prevented by some necessary or reasonable cause, and that in your Absence, such Member as may be appointed by you in that behalf, or in the Absence of any such Member, the Senior Member of the said Executive Council actually present, shall Preside at all such Meetings ; the seniority of the Members of the Council being regulated according to the Order of their respective Appointments as Members of Our said Council. 6. And We do further Direct and Enjoin that a full and exact Journal or Minute be kept of all the Deliberations, Acts, Proceedings, Votes, and Resolutions of Our said Executive Council; and that, at each Meeting of the said Council, the Minutes of the last Meeting be Head over and Confirmed or amended, as the case may require, before proceeding to the Despatch of any other business. 7. And We do hereby Direct and Enjoin that, in the execution of the Powers and Authorities committed to you by Our said Commission, you do in all cases consult with Our said Executive Council, excepting only in cases which may be of such a nature that, in your judgment, Our service would sustain material prejudice by consulting Our Council thereupon, or when the matters to be decided shall be too unimportant to require their advice, or too urgent to admit of their advice being given by the time within which it may be necessary for you to act in respect of any such matters: Provided that in all such urgent cases you do subsequently, and at the earliest practicable period, communicate to the said Council the Measures which you may so have adopted, with the Reasons thereof. 8. And We do Authorize you, in your discretion, and if it shall in any case appear right, to act in the exercise of the power committed to you by Our said Commission, in Opposition to the Advice which may in any such case be given to you by the Members of Our said Executive Council: Provided, nevertheless, that in any such Case you do fully report to Us, by the first convenient opportunity, any such proceeding, with the Grounds and Reasons thereof. 9. And in the execution of so much of the Powers as are vested in you by Law for Assenting to, or Dissenting from, or of Reserving for the signification of Our Pleasure, Bills which may have been passed by the Legislature of our said Colony, We do direct and enjoin you to guide yourself, as far as may be practicable, by the following Rules, Directions, and Instructions, that is to say :—- -10. In the passing of all Laws, each different matter is to be provided for by a different Law without intermixing in one and the same Act such things as have no proper relation to each other ; and no Clause is to be inserted in or annexed to any Act which shall be foreign to what the title of such Act imports, and no perpetual Clause is to be part of any temporary Law. 11. You are not to Assent in Our Name to any Bill of any one of the Classes hereinafter specified, that is to say : — (1.) Any Bill for the Divorce of Persons joined together in Holy Matrimony. (2.) Any Bill whereby any Grant of Land or Money, or other Donation or Gratuity, may be made to yourself. (3.) Any Bill whereby any Paper or other Currency may be made a Legal Tender, except tho Coin of tho Realm or other Gold or Silver Coin. (4.) Any Bill imposing Differential Duties. (5.) Any Bill the Provisions of which shall appear Inconsistent with Obligations Imposed upon Us by the Treaty. (6.) Any Bill interfering with the Discipline or Control of Our Forces in the Colony by Land and Sea. (7.) Any Bill of an Extraordinary Nature and Importance, whereby Our Prerogative, or the Rights and Property of Our Subjects not residing in the Colony, or the Trade and Shipping of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, may be prejudiced. (8.) Any Bill containing Provisions to which Our Assent has been once Refused, or which have been disallowed by Us : — Unless such Bill shall contain a Clause Suspending tho Operation of such Bill until the Significacation in the Colony of Our Pleasure thereupon, or unless you shall have satisfied yourself that an Urgent Necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought into Immediate Operation, in which case you are authorized to Assent in Our Name to such Bill, unless the same shall be repugnant to the Law of England, or inconsistent with any obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty. But you are to transmit 1 o Us by the earliest opportunity the Bill so Assented to, together with your Reasons for Assenting thereto. 12. You will take care that all Laws Assented to by you in Our Name, or Reserved for the Signification of Our Pleasure thereon, shall when transmitted by you be fairly Abstracted in the Margins, and be accompanied in such cases as may seem to you necessary, with such explanatory Observations as may be required to exhibit the Reasons and Occasion for proposing such Laws ; and you shall also transmit fair Copies of the Journals and Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Bodies of Our said Colony, which you are to require from the Clerks, or other proper Officers in that behalf, of the said Legislative Bodies. 13. And Whereas We have by Our said Commission Authorized and Empowered you, i you shall see occasion, in Our Name and on Our Behalf, to grant to any Offender Convicted of a' Orime in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate within Our said Colony, a Pa- ,n, either free or subject to lawful conditions: Now We do hereby Direct and Enjoin you to A upon the Judge presiding at the trial of any Offender who may from time to time be Condemned j suffer Death

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