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8. And We further direct that you do not propose or assent to any Bill whatever, wher&by Bills of Credit or other negotiable securities of whatever nature, may be issued in lieu of money on the credit of our Colony of New Zealand, or whereby any Government paper currency may be established therein, or whereby any such Bills, or any other paper currency, or any coin, save only the legal coin of the realm, may be made, or declared to be a legal tender, unless a clause be inserted therein suspending its operation until our pleasure be known, or unless special permission from us in that behalf have been first obtained. 9. And it is Our further pleasure that you> do not propose or assent to any Bill whatever for raising money by the institution of any public or private lotteries. 10. And it is Our further will and pleasure that you do not propose or assent to any Bill' whatever for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matrimony. 11. And IVe do further direct that you do not propose or assent to any Bill whateverlwhereby any grant of money or land, or other donation or gratuity, may be made to you by the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives. 12. And We do further direct that you do not propose or assent to any private Bill whereby the property of any individual may be affected in which there is not a saving of the rights of Us, our heirs and successors, and of all bodies politic and corporate, and of all other persons, excepting those at whose instance and for whose especial benefit such Bill may be passed, and those claiming by, from, through and under them. 13. And it is Our will and pleasure that you do not propose or assent to any Bill whatever to which our assent has once been refused, without express leave for that purpose first obtained from HS. 14. You are to take care that in all laws to be passed by you and the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives, in any case for levying money or imposing fines, forfeitures, and penalties, express mention be made that the same are granted to us, our heirs and successors, for the public uses of our said Colony, and for the support of the Government thereof, as by the said Act shall be directed. 15. You are to reserve for the signification of our pleasure thereon, every Bill which you shall consider to be of an extraordinary or unusual nature, or requiring our special consideration and decision thereupon ; particularly such as may affect the property, credit or dealings of such of our subjects as are not usually resident within our said Colony, or whereby duties shall be laid upon shipping of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or upon its produce or manufactures. 16. It is Our express will and pleasure that you do not assent to any Bill that shall be enacted for a less time than one year, except in cases of imminent necessity or immediate temporary expediency. 17. You shall take care that all laws assented to by you in our name, or reserved for the signification of our royal pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by you, be fairly abstracted in the margins and be accompanied with explanatory observations upon each of them ; and you are also to transmit a statement of the reasons and of the occasion of proposing such law, together with fair copies of the journals and minutes of the proceedings of the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives, which you are to require from the Clerks or other proper officers ia that behalf of the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives; 18. And. whereas We have by our said Commission appointing you our Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief as aforesaid, declared our will and pleasure to be that there shall be within our said Colony a Council to be called the Executive Council for our said Colony, and to be constituted in such manner as should in that behalf be directed by the instructions accompanying our said commission, or according to such further powers, instructions, and authorities as should at any future time thereafter be granted or appointed for you under our sign manual and signet, or by our order in our Privy Council, or by us through one of our principal Secretaries of State ; Now We do direct and declare, that the said Executive Council shall consist of the several persons following, that is to say, the Senior Officer for the time being in command of our land forces in our said Colony ; the Colonial Secretary, for the time being of our said Colony, or the person for the time bing lawful acting in that capacity; the Attorney General for the time being of our said Colony, or the person for the time being lawfully acting in that capacity ; the Treasurer for the time being of our said Colony, or the person for the time being lawfully acting in that capacity,—and such other persons as you shall deem to be qualified and capable to advise you ; provided, nevertheless that any appointment so made by you of any person not hereinbefore expressly designated to be an Executive Councillor, shall be provisional only, and subject to be confirmed or disallowed by us.