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revoke and determine, the said recited Letters-Patent of the 
Twenty-second day of May, 1872, and every clause, article and 
thing therein contained : And further know ye that We, of our 
special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have thought 
fit to constitute, order, and declare, and do by these presents 
constitute, order, and declare that there shall be a Governor- 
General (hereinafter called Our said Governor-General) in and 
over Our Dominion of Canada (hereinafter called our said 
Dominion) and that the person who shall fill the said Office of 
the Governor-General shall be from time to time appointed by 
Commission under our Sign-Manual and Signet. And we do 
hereby authorize and command Our said Governor-General to do 
and execute, in due order, all things that shall belong to his 
said command, and to the trust we have reposed in him, 
according to the several powers and authorities granted or 
appointed him by virtue of “The British North America Act, 
1867”, and of these present TLetters-Patent and of such Com- 
mission 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 or shall 
hereafter be in force in Our said Dominion. 
II. And We do hereby authorize and empower Our said 
Governor-General to keep and use the Great Seal of Our said 
Dominion for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the 
aaid Great Seal, 
III. And We do further authorize and empower Our said 
Governor-General to constitute and appoint, in Our name and on 
Our behalf, all such Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, 
and other necessary Officers and Ministers of Our said Dominion, 
as may be lawfully constituted or appointed by Us. 
IV. And we do further authorize and empower Our said 
Governor-General, so far as we lawfully may upon sufficient 
cause to him appearing, to remove from his office, or to suspend 
trom the exercise of the same, any person exercising any office 
within Our said Dominion, under or by virtue of any Commission 
or Warrant granted, or which may be granted, by Us in Our 
name or under Our authority.