before mentioned; and that the House of Representatives 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 herein-before mentioned.

VI. 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 prescribe all such rules as to us shall seem fit, for ascertaining 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 behalf, assent to any such laws, statutes, or ordinances, or reserve the signification 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 repugnant to the said Act, as it may seem to us necessary 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 letters patent as first aforesaid, to appropriate and set apart from and out of the revenues of any such separate provinces as aforesaid, by way of civil list, for the maintenance 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 six thousand pounds 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 respectively, by way of civil list, for the purposes last aforesaid, the sum of six thousand pounds in each of the said governments respectively; which said several sums of six thousand pounds 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 prescribed 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 Assembly, in any case in which such grant or appropriation shall not first have been recommended by us, 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. 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 sixteenth 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 in pursuance of the powers so reserved to us, we do hereby revoke the said last mentioned letters patent; provided always, that all laws and ordinances made and all acts done under and in pursuance 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 provinces shall, in pursuance of the said recited Act, make 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 Assembly, 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 respectively, 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 hereafter be by us appointed or designated, in any other instructions under our signet and sign manual addressed to him in that behalf.

XII. And we do hereby authorise, empower, and require, the Governor-in-chief of New Zealand, and the respective Governors of each of the said provinces respectively, 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 Governors of the said provinces respectively, full power and authority, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said respective provinces, from time to time to issue a proclamation or proclamations, dividing the same into counties, hundreds, towns, townships and parishes, and to appoint the limits thereof respectively.

XIV. And we do hereby give and grant to the respective 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 respective 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 corporate, 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