1572 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
or absence, to such person or persons as may, from time to time, 
ander the provisions of these Our Letters Patent, administer the 
Government of Our said Commonwealth, 
IX. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and succes- 
sors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or 
amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or them shall seem meet. 
X. And We do further direct and enjoin that these Our Letters 
Patent shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places as Our said 
Fovernor-General shall think fit within Our said Commonwealth of 
Australia. 
In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made 
Patent. Witness Qurself at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of 
October, in the Sixty-fourth Year of Our Reign. 
By Warrant under the Queen’s Sign Manual. 
MUIR MACKENZIE. 
IB) 
INSTRUCTIONS passed under the Royal Sign Manual and 
Signet to the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief 
of the Commonwealth of Australia. 
Dated October 29. 1900. 
VICTORIA R. I. 
[nsTrRUCTIONS to Our Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief 
in and over Our Commonwealth of Australia, or in his absence, 
to Our Lieutenant-Governor or the Officer for the time being 
administering the Government of Our said Commonwealth. 
Given at Our Court at Saint James's this Twenty-ninth day of 
October 1900, in the Sixty-fourth year of Our Reign. 
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent bearing even date herewith, 
We have constituted, ordered, and declared that there shall be a 
Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief (therein and hereinafter 
called the Governor-General), in and over Our Commonwealth of 
Australia (therein and hereinafter called Our said Commonwealth). 
And We have thereby authorized and commanded 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 said Letters Patent and of such Commission as 
may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and accord- 
ing to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him, 
ander 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 Common. 
* Clauses III-V could be revoked without producing any result, as they are 
needless. But the powers contained in them could not be varied. Clause VII 
has been revoked and replaced bv a new clanse by letters patent of March 29, 
1931.