CANADA 
1565 
these Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, declare 
Our pleasure to be as follows :— 
I. Our said Governor-General for the time being shall, with all due 
solemnity, cause Qur Commission, under Our Sign Manual and Signet, 
appointing Our said Governor-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. 
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 the Reign 
of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled An Act to Amend the 
Law relating to Promissory Oaths’; and likewise he or they shall take 
the usual Oath for the due execution of the Office of Our Governor- 
General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Qur 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 administer unto him or them. 
IL. 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 persons or 
person, as he shall think fit, who shall hold any office or place of trust 
or profit in Our said Dominion, the said Oath of 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 communi- 
cate 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 cases 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 Parliament of Our said Do- 
minion, which he is to require from the clerks, or other proper 
officers in that behalf, of the said Parliament.2 
V. And We do further authorize and empower Our said Governor- 
General, as he shall see occasion. in Our name and on Our behalf. 
t 81 & 382 Vict. c. 72. 
* It is rather curious that the Instructions to the Federations and the Union 
should contain a clause omitted in 1892 from the Australian Instructions to 
please Mr. Higinbotham ; see above, p. 168; below, p. 1591, n. 1. 
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