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VIII. And whereas it is by the said recited Act
among other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for
us, by such letters patent as first aforesaid, to prohibit
the grant or appropriation of any public money by either
of the said Assemblies, or by the said General Assem-
bly, in any case in which such grant or appropriation
shall not first have been recommended by us, on our be-
half, with a view to, or in aid of, some specific public
service to be performed within the said provinces re-
pectively, or within the said islands of New Zealand
collectively ; now, therefore, in further pursuance of the
said recited act, and in exercise of the powers thereby in
us vested as aforesaid, we do hereby prohibit the grant
or appropriation of any public money by either of the
said Assemblies, or by the said General Assembly, in
any case in which such grant or appropriation shall not
first have been recommended by us,or on our behalf, with
a view to or in aid of, some specific public service to be
pel formed within the said provinces respectively, or
within the said islands of New Zealand collectively.
IX. And whereas by the said letters patent of the
16th day of November, in the fourth year of our reign, we
did reserve to us, our heirs and successors, full power
and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or
amend the same as to us or them should seem meet ;
now, therefore, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
so reserved to us, we do hereby revoke the said last-men-
tioned letters patent: provided always, that all laws and
ordinances made and all acts done under and in pur-
suance of the said last-mentioned letters patent, in so far
as such laws, ordinances, and acts, are not repugnant to
these presents, and do not interfere with, or prevent the
operation thereof, shall be as valid and effectual as though
these presents had not been made.
X. And we do hereby require and enjoin, that the
said General Assembly of New Zealand, and that the
said respective Assemblies of the said respective pro-
vinces,ake and statutes,said
and recoirtdedinaAnccest,
as by the said recited Act they are severally authorised
and empowered to make and enact, and that the course
of proceeding to be followed in the said General Assem-
msh shall,
enact in
all pursuance usruscuha nce
laws, of the
Assem-
bly, and in the said Assemblies of the said respective
provinces, in regard to the making and enactment of such
laws, statutes, and ordinances, shall be according to such
rules as are in that behalf prescribed and provided for in
the said instructions hereinbefore mentioned.

XI. And we do further authorise and require the
Governor of each of the said provinces to summon as an
executive souncil for each of the said provinces respec-
tively such and so many persons as are for that purpose
appointed or designated by us in the said instructions
hereinbefore mentioned, or as shall at any time here-
after be by us appointed or designated in any other in-
structions under our signet or sign manual addressed to
him in that behalf.

XII. And we do hereby authorise, empower, and re-
quire the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, and the re-
spective Governors of each of the said provinces respec-
tively, to keep and use a public seal for the sealing of all
things whatsoever that shall pass the seal of the said
General Government, or the seal of either of the said
provinces respectively.
XIII. And we do hereby grant to the respective Go-
vernors of the said provinces respectively full power and
authority, with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said respective provinces, from time
to time, to issue a proclamation or proclamations di-
viding the same into counties, hundreds, towns, town-
ships, and parishes, and to appoint the limits thereof
respectively.
XIV. And we do hereby give and grant to the respec-
tive Governors of the said provinces respectively full
power and authority to make and execute, in our name
and on our behalf, under the public seal of the said re-
spective provinces, grants of waste land to us belonging
within the same, either to private persons for their own
use and benefit, or to any persons, bodies politic or cor-
porate, in trust for the public uses of our subjects there
resident, or any of them.
XV. Provided always, that in the exercise cf the
powers last aforesaid the respective Governors of the
said provinces respectively shall strictly conform to and
observe the rules for their guidance prescribed in and by
the said instructions hereinbefore mentioned.

XVI. And we do hereby authorise, empower, and re-
quire the respective governors of the said provinces respec-
tively, from time to time, in our name and on our behalf,
to constitute and appoint judges, and, in cases requisite,
commissioners of oyer and terminer, justices of the
peace, and other necessary officers for the administration
of justice within the said respective provinces, and for
the putting in force therein all laws made or to be made
for the government thereof, and all such officers as may
be requisite for the due administration of the civil go-
vernment therein. And we do further authorise the
same governors, as occasion shall require, to
suspend
from the exercise of his office or employment, until our
pleasure shall be known, any person or persons within
their respective provinces holding any public office or
employment therein at our pleasure.
XVII. Provided always that in the exercise of such
ion of public officers,
power of appointment and suspens

of New Ulster," end the "Province of New Dinftgter;"
and we do hereby divide the said islands accordingly;
and we do hereby constitute and establish a separate
assembly within each of the said two provinceS, to con-
sist of and be holden by a Governor, Legislativec_gras.,;i
cil, and a House of Representatives ; and we deeltee4x7okAll
declare, ordain, and appoint, that the limits of the said
provinces ipspectively, and the time at which, in each of
the said provis:ces respectively, the said assemblies shall
be convened or he' idea, shall be determined in the manner
and form prescribe and provided for in and by the said
ei,
instructions hereinbefer: mentioned.
IV. And whereas it is 10,-.the said recited Act further
enacted, that each of the said le2:zislative Councils, when
constituted, shall consist of such parsons as we shall for
that purpose appoint; and that the eles:tions of the mem-
bers of the said Houses of RepresentatiM shall take
place in such manner and form, and under such
_regula-
tions as shall for that purpose be prescribed in any such
letters patent as aforesaid ; now, therefore, in fuether
pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, we do
hereby grant, appoint, and ordain, that the said Leggy
lative Councils shall consist of such persons as are foie
[bat purpose appointed or designated by us in the said°
instructions hereiebefore mentioned, and that the elec-
tions of members of the said Houses of Representatives
reipectively shall take place in the manner_ and form,
and under the regulations prescribed and provided for,
in and by the said instructions hereinbefore mentioned.
-V. And whereas it is by the said recited Act further
enacted, that it shall be lawful for us, in and by any such
letters patent to be issued as aforesaid, to constitute and
establish a General Assembly in and for the said islands
of New Zealand, to be called the General Assembly
of New Zealand, which said General Assembly shall
consist of, and be holden by, the Governor-in-
Chief cf the said islands, and a Legislative Council,
and a 'Luse of Representatives ; and that such Le-
gislative Council shall cons'st, of such persons as we
shall for that purpose appoint; and that such House of
Representatives shall consist of members of the respec-
tive Houses of Representatives of the several provinces
into which the said islands may be divided ; which mem-
bers, so to serve in the said General Assembly, shall be
elected, nominated, and appointed by such persons, in
such manner and form, and upon and subject to such
rules and conditions as we, by any such letters patent
as aforesaid, shall direct ; now, therefore, in further
pursuance of the said recited Act, and in exercise of the
powers thereby in us vested, we do hereby constitute
and establish a General Assembly in and for the islands
of New Zealand, to be called a‘the General Assembly
of New Zealand," and to consist of, and to be holden by,
the Governor-in-Chief of the said islands, a Legislative
Council, and a House of Representatives ; and we do
hereby grant, appoint, and ordain, that the Legislative
Council of the said General Assembly of New Zealand
shall consist of such persons as are for that purpose ap-
pointed or designated by us in the said instructions
hereinbefore mentioned ; and that the House of Repre-
sentatives of the said general Assembly shall consist of
members of the respective Houses of Representatives
of the said provinces, to be for that purpose elected,
nominated, and appointed by the persons appointed or
designated, and in the manner and form prescribed and
provided for in and by the said instructions hereinbefore-
mentioned.
VL And whereas it is by the said recited Act further
enacted, that it shall be lawful for us, by any such letters
patent, to be issued as first aforesaid, to make and pre-
scribe all such rules as to us shall seem fit, for ascer-
taining the qualifications of the members of any such
Assemblies or General Assembly as aforesaid, and for
determining the length of time for which every such
Assembly or General Assembly shall be holden from the ,
time of the election of the members of the said Houses
of Representatives, and how and by what authority the
same shall be dissolved or prorogued, and for prescribing
the oaths to be taken or the affirmation to be made by
the members of the said Corporations, Assemblies, or
General Assembly, or any of them, before entering on
the discharge of the duties of their respective offices, and
for prescribing the course of proceeding to be followed
in the said respective Assemblies and in the said
General Assembly, in regard to the "enactment of laws,
statutes, and ordinances therein, and for determining
in what cases the Governor-in-Chief for the time being
of the said islands of New Zealand, or the-Governor
for the time being of any separate province, shall,
in our name and on our tehalf, assent to any such
laws, statutes, or ordinances, or reserve the signifies- ye
tion of our pleasure thereon, together with all such
rules as shall be necessary for determining the effect
of the disallowance by us of any such law, statute,
or ordinance, although not so reserved as aforesaid,
together with all such other rules, not being re-
pugnant to the said Act, as it may seem to us neces-
sary to make and establish for carrying into full effect
the purposes and objects thereof; now, therefore, in
further pursuance of the said Act, and in exercise of the
powers so thereby vested in us as aforesaid, we do hereby
declare our pleasure to be that upon and in respect to all
and each of the matters and things last mentioned and
referred to in the said recited Act, such rules shall be
observed and followed as are for those several purposes
prescribed or referred to in the said instructions herein-
before mentioned.
VIL And whereas it is by the said recited Act further
enacted, that it shall be' lawful for us, by any such letters
patent as first aforesaid, to appropriate and set apart
from and out of the revenues of any such separate pro-
vinces as aforesaid, by way of civil list, for the mainte-
nance of the administration of justice, and the principal
officers of the civil Government, or of such separate
provinces as aforesaid, such sums of money as shall not
exceed 6,000/. by the year, in any one of the said separate
Governments ; now, therefore, in pursuance of the said
Act, and in exercise of the powers thereby vested in us,
'we do hereby appropriate and set apart from and out of
the revenue of each of the said separate provinces re-
spectively, by way of civil list, for the purposes last
aforesaid, the sum of 6,0001. in each of the said Govern-
ments respectively ; which said several sums of 6,0001.
shall, in each of the said Governments respectively, be
appropriated and applied,- and accounted for in the
manner and form for that purpose appointed and pre-
scribed in and by the said instructions hereinbefere
mentioned. •