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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
respective Governors of the said provinces respectively,
full power and authority, in our name and on our be-
half to grant to any offender convicted of any crime,
or sentenced to the payment to us of any fine, penalty,
or forfeiture by any Court or by or before any Judge,
Justice or Magistrate within the said provinces respec-
tively, a free and conditional pardon, or a pardon
subject to such conditions as by any law then in force
may be thereunto annexed, or any respite of the execu-
tion of the sentence of any such offender for such pe-
riod as to such Governor may seem meet, or a remis-
sion, either total or partial, absolute or conditional, of
any such fine, penalty or forfeiture.

XX. And in the event of the death of the Governor-
in-chief of New Zealand for the time being, or of his
absence from the New Zealand islands, or of his bodily
or mental incapacity for the discharge of the duties 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
during such vacancy by death, or during the continus-
ance of such absence or incapacity, or until our plea-
sure 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 du-
ring that period had by us been addressed to him.
But, if there should not happen to be within the said
islands on the occurrence of any such vacancy by death,
or during the continuance of any such absence, or inca-
pacity, any person holding our commission as Governor
of the province of New Ulster, then upon the occur-
rence, and during the continuance of such vacancy by
death, or during the continuance of such absence or
incapacity, or until our pleasure be known, the exer-
cise of the said office of Governor-in-chief shall be
assumed by any person being within the said islands,
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 being.

XXI. And we do further declare our pleasure to be
that Lieutenant Governors of the said respective pros-
vinces shall by us from time to time be appointed by
commission under our signet and sign manual; but
that in the event of the death, absence, resignation,
bodily or mental incapacity, or suspension from office
of such Lieutenant Governor, it shall be competent to the said Governor-
in-chief, and he is hereby authorized and empowered,
upon the occurrence and during the continuance of
such last mentioned vacancy, by a commission under
the public seal of the General Government of New Zea-
land, in our name; and on our behalf, to constitute and
appoint any proper person to be the Lieutenant Go-
vernor of such province until our pleasure be known.

XXII. And we do hereby declare our pleasure to be
that the Lieutenant Governor for the time being of each
of the said provinces, (whether so appointed by such a
direct commission from us as aforesaid, or by such a
commission as aforesaid from the Governor-in-chief
of New Zealand) shall have, exercise and enjoy, all
powers, privileges and authorities hereby or by the
said instructions herein-before mentioned, or otherwise
howsoever vested in the Governor, for the time-being
of any such province, save only that the temporary and
provisional administration of the office of Governor-in-
Chief of New Zealand, on any such vacancy by death,
absence or incapacity as aforesaid, shall pass to and
become vested in the Governor of the Province of
New Munster, in preference to the Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of the Province of New Ulster, and in the Lieu-

nant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, in
preference to the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster;
and such provisional administration of the said office
of Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, shall, on any
such vacancy by death, absence or incapacity, as afore-
said, pass-to-and become vested in such chief military
officer, as aforesaid, in preference to any Lieutenant
Governor who may hold the office of Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor not in virtue of a commission issued directly by
us, but in virtue of a commission so issued as aforesaid,
in our name and behalf by any such Governor-in-Chief.

XXIII. And we do further reserve to ourselves full
power and authority, in our discretion to appoint one
and the same person to occupy at the same time, the
said several offices of Governor-in-Chief and of Gover-
nor of each of the said respective provinces, or any
two of those offices, and in our discretion to appoint
one and the same person to occupy as the same time
both of the said offices of Lieutenant-Governor of the
said respective provinces.

XXIV. And whereas it is by the said recited Act
further provided that it shall be lawful for us from
time to time to amend, and for that purpose to add to,
or if necessary to repeal any such letters patent, or
instructions as therein mentioned. Now we do hereby
reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, full
power and authority from time to time to amend, and
for that purpose to add to, or if necessary, to repeal
these presents, and the said instructions herein-before-
mentioned.

XXV. And we do hereby further declare our will
and pleasure to be, that these presents shall not take
effect or come into operation in the said Islands of New
Zealand, until the same shall have been published and
made known to the inhabitants of the said islands, by
a proclamation, to be for that purpose issued by the
person commissioned by us to be Governor-in-Chief for
the time-being, of the said islands.

In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters
to be made patent.

Witness ourself at Westminster, the twenty-third
day of December, in the tenth year of our reign.

EDMUNDS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 29th November, 1847.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

MAJOR JOHN GRAY,

commanding the Royal New Zealand Fen-
cibles, to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Territory of New Zealand.

By his Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

TRANSFER OF LICENSES.

A SPECIAL MEETING of the Justices for the
Town and District of Auckland, will be
holden at the Resident Magistrate's Court, on
Tuesday, the seventh day of December next, at
twelve o'clock, at noon, for the purpose of re-
ceiving applications for the transfer of Publicans
Licenses.

THOS. BECKHAM,
Resident Magistrate.

Resident Magistrate's Court,
November 23, 1847.

Auckland:—Printed by JOHN WILLIAMSON, for the
New Zealand Government.