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General for the time being, to be read and published in the 
presence of the Chief Justice for the time being, or other Judge 
of the Supreme Court of Our said Dominion, and of the members 
of the Privy Council in Our said Dominion: And we do further 
declare Our pleasure to be that Our said Governor-General, and 
every other officer appointed to administer the Government of 
Our said Dominion, shall take the Oath of Allegiance in the form 
provided by an Act passed in the Session holden in the thirty-first 
and thirty-second years of Our Reign, intituled “An Act to 
amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths ;” and likewise that 
he or they shall take the usual Oath for the due execution of the 
Office of Our Governor-General in and over Our said Dominion, 
and for the due and impartial administration of justice; which 
Oaths the said Chief Justice for the time being, of Our said 
Dominion, or, in his absence, or in the event of his being other- 
wise incapacitated, any Judge of the Supreme Court of Our said 
Dominion shall, and he is hereby required to tender and adminis 
ter unto him or them. 
II. And We do authorize and require Our said Governor- 
General from time to time by himself or by any other person to 
be authorized by him in that behalf, to administer to all and to 
every person or persons as he shall think fit, who shall hold any 
office or place of trust or profit in Our said Dominion, the said 
Oath or Allegiance, together with such other Oath or Oaths as 
may from time to time be prescribed by any Laws or Statutes in 
that behalf made and provided. 
III. And We do require Our said Governor-General to 
communicate forthwith to the Privy Council for Our said 
Dominion these Our Instructions, and likewise all such others 
from time to time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to 
be imparted to them. 
IV. Our said Governor-General is to take care that all laws 
assented to by him in Our name, or reserved for the signification 
of Our pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by him, be 
fairly abstracted in the margins, and be accompanied, in such 
cages as may seem to him necessary, with such explanatory 
observations as may be required to exhibit the reasons and 
occasions for proposing such Laws; and he shall also transmit 
fair copies of the Journals and Minutes of the proceedings of the