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GEORGE R.I. 
George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond 
the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India: To 
Our most dear and entirely beloved Uncle and most faithful 
Counsellor Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught 
and Strathearn, Knight of Our Most Noble Order of the Garter, 
&e., Greeting. 
WE do, by this Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and 
Signet, appoint you, the said Duke of Connaught and Strathearn to 
be, during Our pleasure, Our Governor-General and Commander-in- 
Chief in and over Our Dominion of Canada, with all the powers, 
rights, privileges, and advantages to the said Office belonging or 
appertaining. 
I. And We do hereby authorize, empower, and command you to 
exercise and perform all and singular the powers and directions con- 
tained in certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster 
the Fifteenth day of June 1905, constituting the said Office of 
Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, or in any other Letters 
Patent adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, according 
to such Orders and Instructions as Our Governor-General and 
Commander-in-Chief for the time being hath already received, or 
as you may hereafter receive from Us. 
III. And further We do hereby appoint that, so soon as you shall 
have taken the prescribed oaths and have entered upon the duties 
of your Office, this Our present Commission shall supersede. the 
Commission under the Sign Manual and Signet of His late Majesty, 
King Edward the Seventh, bearing date the Sixteenth day of June, 
1905, appointing Our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cousin 
Albert Henry George, Earl Grey, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most 
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (now a 
Member of Our Most Honourable Privy Council and also Knight 
Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order), to be Governor- 
General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion of 
Canada. 
IV. And We do hereby command all and singular Our Officers, 
Ministers, and loving subjects in Our said Dominion, and all others 
whom it may concern, to take due notice hereof and to give their 
ready obedience accordingly. 
Given at Our Court at Saint James’s this Sixth day of March, 
1911, in the First year of Our Reign. 
By His Majesty’s Command, 
L. HARCOURT. 
My 
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