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14. And We do hereby require and command all Our Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all other the inhabitants of the Colony, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting unto the Governor, or to such person or persons as may from time to time, under the provisions of these Our Letters Patent, administer the Government of the Colony. 15. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our Heirs and Successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or Them shall seem meet. IG. And We do direct and enjoin that these Our Letters Patent shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places within Our said Colony as the Governor shall think fit. In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of February, in the Forty-second year of Our Reign. By Warrant under the Queen's Sign-Manual. C. ROMILLY. • ■•»

Officers and °^ ers t° t °^ !y Governor, Power reserved to re y o k o 0 ° amend the present Letters Patent. Publication of Letters Patent.

COPY OF INSTRUCTIONS PASSED UNDER [THE ROYAL SIGN-MANUAL AND SIGNET TO THE GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OE THE COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. (Dated 2,lst February, 1879.) Victoria R. Instructions to Our Governor and Commarrder-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, or, in his absence, to Our Lieutenant Governor or the Officer, for the time being, Administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies. Given at Our Court at Windsor, this Twenty-first day of February, 1879, in the Forty-second year of Our Reign. 1. Whereas by certain Letters Patent, bearing even date herewith, We have constituted, ordered, and declared that there shall be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief (therein and hereinafter called "tbe Governor") in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies (which said Colony and its Dependencies are therein and hereinafter called " the Colony ") : And whereas AYe have thereby authorized and commanded the Governor to do and execute all things that belong to his said office according to the tenor of Our said Letters Patent and of such Commission as may be issued to him under Our Sign-Manual and Signet, and according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him urrder Our Sign-Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us through oire of Our Principal Secretaries of State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the Colony : Now, therefore, We do, by these Our Instructions under Our Sign-Manual and Signet, direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure as follows: — The Governor may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person in the public service to take the Oath of Allegiance, together with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any Law in force in the Colony. The Governor is to administer such Oaths or cause them to be administered by some Public Officer of the Colony. 2. Tho Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instructions to Our Executive Council for the Colony, and likewise all such others, from time to time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to impart to them. 3. The said Executive Council shall not proceed to the despatch of business unless duly summoned by authority of the Governor, nor unless two members at the least (exclusive of himself or of the member presiding) be present and assisting throughout the whole of the meetings at which any such . J business shall be despatched. 4. The Governor shall attend and preside at the meeting of the Executive Council, unless prevented by some necessary or reasonable cause, and in his absence such member as maybe appointed by him in that behalf, or in the absence of such member the senior member of the Executive Council actually preseirt shall preside; the seniority of the members of the said Council being regulated y according to the order of their respective appointments as members thereof. D r "

Preamble. Patent' oon_titftting the Office Oaths to be administered by Governor to comtions to Executive Council. Executive Coun- £_ business unless summoned by the Governor s authority. Quorum. Governor to preappoint Tpresident- Senior , the absence ot tbc Governor and President. Seniority of members.