1566 "PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS
when any crime or offence against the Laws of Our said Dominion 1
bas been committed for which the offender may be tried therein, to
grant a pardon to any accomplice, in such crime or offence, who shall
give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal
offender, or of any one of such offenders if more than one; and
further, to grant to any offender convicted of any such crime or
offence in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate,
within Our said Dominion, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful
conditions, or any respite of the execution of the sentence of any
such offender, for such period as to Our said Governor-General may
seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures which may
become due and payable to Us. Provided always, that Our said
Governor-General shall not in any case, except where the offence has
been of a political nature, make it a condition of any pardon or
remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from or
shall absent himself from Our said Dominion. And we do hereby
direct and enjoin that Our said Governor-General shall not pardon
or reprieve any such offender without first receiving in capital cases
the advice of the Privy Council for Our said Dominion, and in other
cases the advice of one, at least, of his Ministers ; and in any case in
which such pardon or reprieve might directly affect the interests
of Our Empire, or of any country or place beyond the jurisdiction of
the Government of Our said Dominion, Our said Governor-General
shall, before deciding as to either pardon or reprieve, take those
interests specially into his own personal consideration in conjunction
with such advice as aforesaid.
VI. And whereas great prejudice may happen to Our service and
to the security of Our said Dominion by the absence of Our said
Governor-General, he shall not, upon any pretence whatever, quit
Our said Dominion without having first obtained leave from Us for
so doing under Our Sign Manual and Signet. or through one of Our
Principal Secretaries of State.

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COMMISSION passed under the Royal Sign Manual and
Signet, appointing Field Marshal His Royal Highness the
Duke of Connaught and (of) Strathearn, K.G., K.T., K.P.,
¢.C.B., G.CSI, G.CMG.,, GCILE., G.CV.0., to be
Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion
 of Canada.
Dated March 6. 1911.

i, e. not offences against provincial laws, as he was empowered to do up to
1905. - See p. 1561, n. 2, for the omission: of reference to crimes triable in the
Dominion though committed outside, an omission which occurs also in Union
Instructions, clause ix. In the Union the Governor-General would seem to
have no power to pardon offences against provincial as opposed to Union laws,
for ‘laws of the Union’ can hardly be pressed to mean ‘laws in force in this
Union’. Cf. p. 1574, n. 1.