COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 1573 
wealth. Now, therefore, We do, by these Our Instructions under 
Our Sign Manual and Signet, declare Our pleasure to be as follows :— 
I. Our first appointed Governor-General shall, with all due 
solemnity, cause Our Commission, under Our Sign Manual and 
Signet, appointing Our said Governor-General, to be read and 
published in the presence of Our Governors, or in their absence of 
Our Lieutenant-Governors of Our Colonies of New South Wales, 
Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western 
Australia and such of the members of the Executive Council, Judges, 
and aa of the Legislatures of Our said Colonies as are able to 
attend. 
II. Our said Governor-General of Our said Commonwealth 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 
Our Reign, intituled ‘ An Act to amend the Law relating to Promis- 
sory Oaths’; and likewise the usual oath for the due execution of 
the Office of Our Governor-General in and over Our said Common- 
wealth, and for the due and impartial administration of justice ; 
which Oaths Our said Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Our 
Colony of New South Wales, or, in his absence, Our Lieutenant- 
Governor or other officer administering the Government of Our said 
Colony, shall and he is hereby required to tender and administer 
unto him. 
III. Every Governor-General, and every other officer appointed to 
administer the Government of Our said Commonwealth after Our 
said first appointed Governor-General, shall, with all due solemnity, 
cause Our Commission, under Our Sign Manual and Signet, appointing 
Our said Governor-General, to be read and published in the presence 
of the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, or some other 
Judge of the said Court, or in the presence of the Chief Justice or some 
other Judge of the Supreme Court of any of the States of our said 
Commonwealth. 
IV. Every Governor-General, and every other officer appointed 
to administer the Government of Our said Commonwealth after Our 
said first appointed Governor-General, shall take the Oath of Alle- 
giance in the form provided by an Act passed in the Session holden 
in the thirty-first and thirty-second years of Our Reign, intituled 
‘An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths’; and 
likewise the usual Oath for the due execution of the Office of Our 
Governor-General in and over Our said Commonwealth, and for the 
due and impartial administration of justice ; which Oaths the Chief 
Justice of the High Court of Australia, or some other Judge of the 
said Court, shall and he is hereby required to tender and administer 
unto him or them, or the Chief Justice or some other Judge of the 
Supreme Court of any of our States of the Commonwealth, shall and he 
1s hereby required to tender and administer unto him or them 
! The words in italics were added by additional instructions of August 11, 
1902. with effect from July 14. 1902. in order to cover the swearing in of Lord