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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 hereiabefore
mentioned.
VI. And whereas it is by the said recited Act further
enacted, that it shall be lawful for ❑s, 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 lny 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 Governorsin.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 behalf, assent to any such
laws, statutes, or ordinances, or reserve the significa-
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 ntces-
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.

VII. And whereas it is by the said recited Act further
enacted, that it shall be lawful for us, by any such ler ters
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 6,0004 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 ♦ested 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 6,000/. 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 iu the
manner and form for that purpose appointed and pre-
scribed in and by the said instructions hereinbefore
mentioned.

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 he
half, with a view to, or in aid of, some specific public
service to be performed within the said provinces re-
spectively, or within the said Wands 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
performed within the said provinces respectively, or
within the said islands of New Zealand collectively.
IX. And whereas by the said letters patent of the
16,h 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 fur
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, shall, in pursuance of the said recited Act,
matte and enact all such laws, statutes, and ordinances
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-
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 council 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 aed 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 of 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
power of appointment and suspension of public officers,
the same Governors shall observe the rules in that behalf
prescribed for their guidance in and by the said in-
tructions hereinbefore mentioned.
XVIII. And we do hereby authorize, empower, and
require the respective governors of the said provinces
respectively to administer, or to cause to be adminis-
tered, to all our officers, civil and military, and to all
other persons within the said provinces respectively,
such oaths for the due execution of their respective
offices and employments as are usually taken by such
officers, and the oath of allegiance.
XIX. And we do hereby give and grant unto the re-
spective Governors of the said provinces respectively full
power and authority, in our name and on our behalf, to
grant to any offender convicted of any crime, or sen-
tenced to the payment to us of any fine, penalty, or for-
3iture by any court or by or before any Judge, justice,
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thereunto annexed, or any respite of the execution :of
the sentence of any such offender for such period as to
such Governor may seem meet, or a remission, either
total or partial, absolute or conditional, of any such fine,
penalty, or forfeiture.
XY. And in the event of the death of the Governor-
in-Chief of New Zealand fir the time being, or of his
absence from the New Zealand Islands, or of his
bodily or mental incapacity for the discharge of the
Jades of his office, any person being within the said
islands and holding a commission from us to be Governor
of the province of New Ulster shall, upon the occurrence
of such death, absence, or incapacity, enter upon, and dur-
ing such vacancy by death, or during the continuance
of such absence or incapacity, or until our pleasure be
known, discharge all the powers, authorities,
privileges, and duties of such Governor-in-Chief,
as fully as if a commission for the exercise of
that office during that period had by us been
addressed to him. But, if there should not
happen to be within the said islands on the oc-
currence of any such vacancy by death, or during the
continuance of any su?h absence or incapacity, any per-
son holding our commission as Governor of the province
of New Ulster, then, upon the occurrence, and during
the continuance of such vacancy by death, or during the
continuance of such absence or incapacity, or until our
pleasure be know xi. the exercise of the said office of Go-
vernor-in-Chief shall be assumed by any person being
within the said islands, and holding a commission from
us to be Governor of the Province of New Munster ;
and, failing any such Governor of New Munster, then
and in such case by the chief officer in command of
our military forces within the said islands for the time

bring•
XXI And we do further declare our pleasure to be
that Lieutenant-Governors of the said respective pro-
vinces stall by us, from time to time, be appointed by