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Wherefore we enjoin you to transmit to us by the earliest opportunity, through one of outprincipal Secretaries of State, the name or names of any additional person or persons whom you may so provisionally appoint to be Executive Councillors. 19. And we do hereby direct and require that in the execution of the powers and authorities committed to you by our said commission, you do in all cases consult with the said Executive Council, excepting only when the matters to be decided shall be too unimportant to require their advice, or too urgent to admit of such 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 Executive Council the measures which you may so have adopted with the reasons thereo . 20. And we do authorise and require the members of the said Executive Council to meet in obedience to any summonses which shall by you for that purpose be addressed to them, and to consult with and advise you upon any question connected with the Executive Government ot our said Colony which may by you be proposed for their consideration ; provided, alway* that two of such members at the least be always present on any such occasion, and that distinct minutes be kept of their deliberations and proceedings, which minutes it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the said Council to keep ; and we do require you to transmit to us twice at the least m each year, through one of our principal Secretaries of State, full and exact copies of all such minutes. 21. And We do authorise 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 hxecutive Council; provided nevertheless that in any such case you do fully report to us by the fiist convenient opportunity every such proceeding, with the grounds and reasons thereof. 22. And Whereas by our said Commission, we have required that in granting, selling, letting, disposing of and allowing the occupation ot Waste Lands to us belonging in the said Colony, you do, until the General Assembly of our said Colony shall have enacted a law or laws for so selling, letting, disposing of and allowing the occupation of such Waste Lands, contorm to and observe the provisions in that behalf which are contained in the Instructions under our >ign Manual and Signet accompanying our said Commission. Now therefore we do by these our Instructions, as aforesaid, enjoin and require that until such law or laws be enacted, as aforesaid, you be guided in all matters relating to lands by the Instructions under our Sign Manual and Signet which accompanied our Commission to our trusty and well-beloved Sir George Grey, bearing date at Westminster the twenty-third day of December, 1846, in the tenth year of our reign ; and by all additional Instructions under our Sign Manual and Signet which were subsequently to that date issued by us to the said Sir George Grey, which additional Instructions are hereunder enumerated and specified according to their respective dates. Provided, however, that the said Instructions or additional Instructions are not repugnant to, or would prevent or interfere with, the operation ot the said recited Act of Parliament made in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of our reign, or of any other Act ot Pailiament or Law now in force in the Colony, viz. :— December '22nd, 1847.—Altering amount of royalty on Minerals. March 13th, 1848.—Alienation of Land in exchange for other lands. July 14th, 1848. —Aborigines. January 27th, 1849 — Amends Instructions as to extension of rural lots, &c. February 7th, 1850.—Land for Naval and Military Officers, &C. August 12th, 1850.—Application of Proceeds of Land Sales. , . August 12th, 1850.—Contracts between New Zealand Company and Canterbury Association, &c« March 11th, 1852.—Authorizes persons temporarily occupying Crown Lands to cut timber thereon. . . „ June 24th, 1853 —Providing for the maintenance, terms of purchase, and appropriation ol pur-chase-money of Lands in the Settlement of Otago. 23. And whereas in and by our said Commission, We have granted unto you full power and authority in our name and in our behalf, to grant to any person convicted of any crime in any of the tribunals of our said Colony an absolute or conditional pardon : Now We do enjoin and require you in every ease where you shall be applied to for any such pardon, and in any case whatever in which sentence of death shall have been passed, to obtain from the Judge who presided at tlie trial of any such 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. 24. And We do strictly command that you do no', upon any occasion permit any such kind of punishment to be inflicted as can in no case be inflicted by the Law of England, and that you do not remit any fine or forfeiture above the value of fifty pounds sterling without signifying to us the