NEWFOUNDLAND 1613 
Produce, Manufactures, and other matters in the said ‘ Blue Book’ 
more particularly specified with reference to the state and condition of 
Our said Colony : Now We do hereby direct and enjoin that all such 
Returns be accurately prepared, and punctually transmitted to Us 
from year to year through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. 
XXII. And whereas great prejudice may happen to Our Service 
and to the security of Our said Colony by the absence therefrom of 
Our said Governor, he shall not upon any pretence whatsoever quit 
Our said Colony without having first obtained leave from Us for so 
doing under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our 
Principal Secretaries of State. 
V. R. 
The powers given in the Letters Patent are mot all 
revocable ; that in Clauses IV and V could not be withdrawn 
save by Act of Parliament or local Act since it was first con- 
ferred in 1832 by Commission to the Governor! No power 
is given in regard to marriage licences, letters of adminis 
tration, probate of wills, or the custody and management 
of lunatics and idiots and their estates, as was done in two of 
the Australian Letters Patent up to 1900.2 
+ Campbell v. Hall, Cowp. 204; above, p. 3. Cf. Parl. Pap., H.C. 229, 
sess. 2, 1857, p. 3. 
2 South Australia and Queensland. In the others and in New Zealand it 
disappeared when permanent letters patent were issued, and in the case of 
Canada on confederation. The Newfoundland form omits in the Instructions 
the injunction contained in the Australasian Instructions up to 1892 that the 
Governor should promote the interests of the natives and guard them from 
oppression. No power of presentation to benefices is included, as in Canada up 
to federation and in the first Queensland commission in 1859. Cf. ex parte 
Jenkins, 2 P. C. 258: New Brunswick Act 32 Vict. ¢. 6. 
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