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AND WHEREAS We did thereby authorise and command Our said Instructions. Governor to do and execute all things that belong to his said office, according to the tenor of Our said Letters Patent and of such Commission as might be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and accord- ing to such Instructions as might from time to time be given to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet or by Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us through one of Ŏur Principal Secretaries of State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the Colony;

AND WHEREAS We are minded to issue these Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet for the guidance and direction of Our Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony;

NOW THEREFORE We do hereby revoke and determine Our Instructions Revokes under our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the 11th day of October, Instructions 1886; and We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure of 11th Oct., as follows :--

1886.

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II. The Governor may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person in

Governor to the public service of the Colony to take the Oath of Allegiance, in the administer form prescribed by the Act* mentioned in Our said Letters Patent, to- oaths. gether with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be pre- Vict. c. scribed by any Laws in force in the Colony. The Governor is to administer such Oaths, or to cause them to be administered by some Public Officer of the Colony.

of Executive

Members.

III. The Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieuten- ant Governor of the Colony (if any), the Senior Military Officer for the Constitution time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, the Council. persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial Official Secretary, of Attorney General, and of Treasurer of the Colony, who are hereinafter referred to as Official Members, and of such other persons [as at the date of the receipt of these Instructions in the Colony are Mem- bers of the said Council, or] as We may from time to time appoint by any Instruction or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet.

IV. The Members of the Executive Council shall have seniority and precedence as We may specially assigır, and, in default thereof, first, the Precedence. Official Members in the order in which their offices are above mentioned (except that the Senior Military Officer, if below the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after the person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney General), and then other Members according to the priority of their respective appointments, or if appointed by the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are named therein.

Provisional appointment

V. In the event of the absence from the Colony of any Official or Unofficial Member of the Executive Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, appoint any Public of Official Officer to act provisionally as an Official or Unofficial Member, and any Members.

and Unofficial