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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 otherwise
 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