COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 1577
and have entered upon the duties of your Office of administering the
Government of Our said Commonwealth under and by virtue of this
Our present Commission, the Commission under Our Sign Manual
and Signet bearing date the Seventh day of May 1906 appointing
Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Edward Albert Stone, Knight, to
be Lieutenant-Governor of Our said State of Western Australia and
its Dependencies shall thereupon take effect in like manner as if you
were absent from Our said State.
VI. And We do hereby declare that this Our Commission shall
supersede Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing
date the Twenty-first day of April 1909, providing for the administra-
tion of the Government of Our said Commonwealth by you the said
Frederic John Napier, Baron Chelmsford, or by you the said Sir
Gerald Strickland, in the events therein specified.
VII. And We do hereby command all and singular Our Officers,
Ministers, and loving subjects in Our said Commonwealth, 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 Second day of December
1909, in the Ninth year of Our Reign.
By His Majesty’s Command,
CREWE.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
The instruments in this case are exactly similar to those
in the case of Canada,
LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom, constituting the Office of Governor-
General and Commander-in-Chief of the Union of South
Africa.
Letters Patent, dated December 29, 1909.
Edward the Seventh, 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 all
to whom these presents shall come, Greeting.
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed on the Twentieth
day of September, 1909, in the ninth year of Our reign, intituled * An
Act to constitute the Union of South Africa’?! it was enacted that
it should be lawful for Us, with the advice of Our Privy Council, to
declare by proclamation that, on and after a day therein appointed,
1 g Edw. VIL c. 9.
