1570 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
declare by Proclamation that, on and after the First day of January 
One thousand nine hundred and one, the people of New South Wales, 
Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, and also 
Western Australia, should be united in a Federal Commonwealth 
ander the name of the Commonwealth of Australia: And whereas 
by the said recited Act certain powers, functions, and authorities 
were declared to be vested in the Governor-General : And whereas 
We are desirous of making effectual and permanent, provision for the 
Office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over 
Our said Commonwealth of Australia, without making new Letters 
Patent on each demise of the said Office : Now know ye that We have 
thought fit to constitute, order, and declare, and do by these presents 
constitute, order, and declare, that there shall be a Governor-(Feneral 
and Commander-in-Chief (hereinafter called the Governor-General) 
in and over Our Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called Our 
said Commonwealth), and that the person who shall fill the said 
Office of 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 manner, 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 Commonwealth of Australia Constitution, Act, 1900, and 
of these present Letters Patent and of such Commission 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 shall hereafter be in force in Our said Commonwealth. 
II. There shall be a Great Seal of and for Our said Commonwealth, 
which Our said Governor-General shall keep and use for sealing all 
things whatsoever that shall pass the said Great Seal. Provided that 
until a Great Seal shall be provided, the Private Seal of Qur said 
Governor-General may be used as the Great Seal of the Common- 
wealth of Australia. 
III. The Governor-General may 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 Qur said 
Commonwealth, as may be lawfully constituted or appointed by Us. 
IV. The Governor-General, so far as We Ourselves lawfully may, 
upon sufficient cause to him appearing, may remove from his office, 
or suspend from the exercise of the same, any person exercising any 
office of Our said Commonwealth, under or by virtue of any Com- 
mission or Warrant granted, or which may he granted, bv TJs in Our 
name or under Qur authorty. 
V. The Governor-General may on Our behalf exercise all powers 
! The powers given by Clauses IITand IV are already conferred by ss. 64 and 
67 of the Constitution.