föwera, eto., under Letters
Futent.
Commencement of Comicsion.
II. And we do hereby authoriue, empowe › að command you to exercise and p.rfora all d
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pingular the powers and directions coni: in a 11
certain Letters Patent under the Crest
constituting the office of Governor unu
Commander-in-Chief of cur said Colony and its Dependencies, bearing date at Bestminster the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, or in buy other Lettero latent adding to, amonning or
substituted for the same, according to much
orderg und Instructions as Cur olid govendi
and Commander-in-chief for the time loin; auch
already received, and to such farther ord
and instructiune as you may herekaten rea
from Us.
III. And to do hereby appoint that thin or
present Commission shall come into option
upon such day as you, the ComEG TILES,
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