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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, be-
fore entering on the discharge of the duties of their re-
spective offices, and for prescribing the course of pro-
ceeding 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
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 afore-
said, together with all such other rules, not being re-
pugnant 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 fur-
ther 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 sald
instructions herein-beforementioned.

VII. And whereas it is by the said recited Act fur-
ther 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 sx thousand pounds by the year, in
any one of the said separate governments. Now there-
fore in pursuance of the said Act, and in exercise of the
powere theroby vested in us, we docheeply 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 re-
spectively; 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 Assem-
bly, 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 re-
spectively, 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 publie money by
either of the said Assemblies, or by the said General
Assembly, in any case in which such grant or appro-
priation 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

ters 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 shall, in pursuance of the said recited Act, make
and enact all such laws, statutes and ordinances, as by
the asid recited Act they are severally authorized 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 pro-
vided for in the said instructions hereinbefore men-
tioned.

XI. And we do further authorize and require the
Governor of each of the said provinces to summon as
an Executive Council for each of the said provinces re-
spectively, such and so many persons as are for that
purpose appointed or designated by us in the said in-
structions 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 ad-
dressed to him in that behalf.

XII. And we do hereby authorize, 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 seal-
ing 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 Exe-
cutive Council of the said respective provinces, from
time to time to issue a proclamation or proclamations,
dividing 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 re-
spective 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
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 authorize, empower, and
require, the respective Governors of the said provinces
respectively, 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 tobe made for the Government thereof, and all
such officers as may be requisite for the due administra-
tion of the civil government therein. And we do further
authorize 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 per-
sons within their respective provinces, holding any pub-
lic 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 be-
half prescribed for their guidance in and by the said
instructions 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 administered
to allour officers, civil and military, and to all other