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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

sand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Our reign, constitute and appoint Our
right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Sir James
Fergusson, Baronet (now Knight Commander of Our
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George), to be Our Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand, for
and during Our Will and Pleasure, as upon relation
being had to the said recited Letters-Patent will
more fully and at large appears. Now know you that
We have revoked and determined, and by these
presents do revoke and determine, the said recited
Letters-Patent, and every clause, article, and thing
therein contained: And further know you, that
We, reposing especial trust and confidence in the
prudence, courage, and loyalty of you the said
George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby,
of Our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere
motion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint,
and do by these presents constitute and appoint you
to be, for and during Our will and pleasure, Our
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our
Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies (here-
inafter called Our said Colony). And We do hereby
authorize and command you in due manner to do
and execute all things that shall belong to your said
command, and to the trust We have reposed in you,
according to and in pursuance of an Act of the
Session holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years
of Our Reign, intituled "An Act to grant a Repre-
sentative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,"
and of an Act of the Session holden in the Thirty-
first and Thirty-second Years of Our Reign, intituled
"An Act to make provision for the Appointment of
Members of the Legislative Council of New Zealand,
and to remove doubts in respect of past Appoint-
ments," and according to the several powers and
authorities granted or appointed you by virtue of this
present Commission, and according to such instruc-
tions as are herewith given to you, or as may from
time to time hereafter be given to you, under Our
Sign-Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our
Privy Council, or by Us through one of Our Prin-
cipal Secretaries of State, and according to such laws
and ordinances as are or shall hereafter be in force in
Our said Colony.

II. And We do hereby authorize and empower
you to keep and use the Public Seal of Our said
Colony for sealing all things whatsoever that shall
pass the said Public Seal.

III. And We do further authorize and empower
you, in Our name and on Our behalf, to make and
execute under the said Seal grants and dispositions of
any lands which may be lawfully granted and dis-
posed of by Us within Our said Colony.

IV. And We do hereby declare Our pleasure to
be, that there shall be an Executive Council for Our
said Colony, and that the said Council shall consist
of such persons as are now or may at any time be
declared by any law enacted by the Legislature of
Our said Colony to be Members of Our said Council,
and of such other persons as you shall from time to
time, in Our name and on Our behalf, but subject to
any law as aforesaid, appoint under the said Seal to
be Members of Our said Council.

V. And We do authorize and empower you to
constitute and appoint in Our name and on Our
behalf, all such Judges, Commissioners, Justices of
the Peace, and other necessary Officers and Ministers
of Our said Colony, as may be lawfully constituted
or appointed by Us.

VI. And We do further authorize and empower
you as you shall see occasion, in Our name and on
Our behalf, when any crime has been committed
within Our said Colony, or for which the offender
may be tried therein to grant a pardon to any ac-
complice, not being the actual perpetrator of such
crime, who shall give such information and evidence
as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of
the principal offender; and further, to grant to any
offender convicted of any crime in any Court, or
before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate within Our
said Colony, a pardon, either free or subject to law-
ful conditions, or any respite of the execution of the
sentence of any such offender, for such period as to
you may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties,
or forfeitures which may become due and payable
to Us.

VII. And We do further authorize and empower
you, so far as We lawfully may, upon sufficient cause
to you appearing, to remove from his office, or to
suspend from the exercise of the same, any person
exercising any office or place within Our said Colony
under or by virtue of any Commission or Warrant
granted, or which may be granted, by Us in Our
name, or under Our authority.

VIII. And whereas it has been represented to
Us that the necessities of Our Service in Our said
Colony occasionally require that you should absent
yourself from the seat of Government in the Pro-
vince of Wellington, whereby the affairs of the said
Province might be exposed to detriment if there were
no person in the place who should be authorized to
exercise the powers and authorities which We have
by this Our present Commission given and granted
to you Our Governor: Now We do hereby authorize
and empower you from time to time, as occasion
shall require, by an Instrument under the Public
Seal of Our said Colony, to assign, constitute, and
appoint any person to be your Deputy in the said
Province of Wellington, and in that capacity to
exercise, perform, and execute during your pleasure,
but no longer, all such powers, directions, and
authorities as are vested in you by this Our Com-
mission and the Instructions under Our Sign-Manual
and Signet herein referred to: Provided, neverthe-
less, that by the appointment of a Deputy as afore-
said, your power and authority as Governor of Our
said Colony shall not be abridged, altered, or in any
way affected, otherwise than We may at any time
hereafter think proper to direct.

IX. And We do further authorize and empower
you to exercise all powers lawfully belonging to Us
in respect of the summoning, proroguing, or dis-
solving any Legislative Body, now or hereafter
established within Our said Colony, and in respect of
the appointment of Members thereto.

X. And We do by these presents authorize and
empower you, within Our said Colony, to exercise all
such powers as We may be entitled to exercise
therein in respect of granting licenses for marriages,
letters of administration, and probates of wills, and
with respect to the custody and management of
idiots and lunatics, and their estates.

XI. And We do hereby declare Our pleasure to be
that, in the event of your death, incapacity, or absence
out of the said Colony, all and every the powers and
authorities herein granted to you shall, until Our
further pleasure is signified therein, be vested in
such person as may be appointed by Us under Our
Sign-Manual and Signet, to be Our Lieutenant-
Governor of Our said Colony, or if there shall be no
such Lieutenant-Governor in Our said Colony, then
in such person or persons as may be appointed by
Us under Our Sign-Manual and Signet to administer
the Government of the same: Provided that no such
powers or authorities shall vest in such Lieutenant-
Governor, or such other person or persons, until he
or they shall have taken the oaths appointed to be
taken by the Governor of Our said Colony, and in
the manner provided by the Instructions accom-
panying this Our Commission.