NEW ZEALAND 1587 
he above-recited Letters Patent of the Twenty-first day of February 
1879, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder. 
And We do by these presents constitute, order, and declare that 
there shall be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our 
Dominion of New Zealand (hereinafter called the Dominion), com- 
prising the Territories, Islands, and Countries forming the Colony of 
New Zealand as defined in the above-recited Act, passed in the 
Session holden in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Years of the 
Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled © An Act to alter 
the Boundaries of New Zealand ’, together with the further Islands 
and Territories included within the Boundaries of the Colony of New 
Zealand by the above-recited Proclamations of the Governor thereof, 
dated respectively the Twenty-first day of July 1887 and the Tenth 
day of June 1901 ; and that appointments to the said office when 
vacant shall be made by Commission under Our Sign Manual and 
Signet. 
II. We do hereby authorize, empower, and command Our said 
Governor and Commander-in-Chief (hereinafter called the Governor) 
to do and execute all things that belong to his said Office, according 
to the tenor of these Our Letters Patent and of such Commission 
as may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and 
according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to 
him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our 
Privy Council, or by Us, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of 
State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in 
the Dominion. 
ITI. Every person appointed to fill the Office of Governor shall, 
with all due solemnity, before entering on any of the duties of his 
Office, cause the Commission appointing him to be Governor to be 
read and published at the seat of Government, in the presence of 
the Chief Justice, or some other Judge of the Supreme Court of the 
Dominion, and of the Members of the Executive Council thereof, 
which being done, he shall then and there take before them 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 the Reign of 
Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ‘ An Act to amend the Law 
relating to Promissory Oaths’; and likewise the usual Oath for the 
due execution of the Office of Governor, and for the due and impartial 
administration of justice; which Oaths the said Chief Justice or 
Judge is hereby required to administer. 
IV. The Governor shall keep and use the Public Seal of the 
Dominion for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the said 
Public Seal, and until a new Public Seal shall be provided for the 
Dominion,! the Public Seal used as the Public Seal of the Territories, 
Islands, and Countries prior to the Twenty-sixth day of September 
1907 known as the Colony of New Zealand shall be deemed to be the 
Public Seal of the Dominion. 
\ This was done on the accession of King George V