1574 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
V. 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 
brust or profit in Our said Commonwealth, the said Oath of Allegiance, 
together with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time 
be prescribed by anv laws or statutes in that behalf made and pro- 
vided. 
VI. And We do require Our said Governor-General to communicate 
forthwith to the Members of the Executive Council for Our said 
Commonwealth these Our Instructions, and likewise all such others, 
from time to time, as he shall find convenient for Qur service to be 
imparted to them. 
VIL. 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 Common- 
wealth, which he is to require from the clerks, or other proper officers 
in that behalf, of the said Parliament. 
VIII. And Wedo further authorize and empower Our said Governor- 
General, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, 
when any crime or offence against the laws of Our Commonwealth 
has been committed for which the offender may be tried within Our 
said Commonwealth, 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 Commonwealth, a pardon, 
either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any respite of the execu- 
bion 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 Commonwealth. 
And We do hereby direct and enjoin that Our said Governor-General 
a as Administrator. on the departure of Lord Hopetoun, before a state 
udge. 
be against Commonwealth statutes or any common law attaching to the 
Commonwealth, not in the case of state offences. A crime may be both state 
and Commonwealth, and according as it was treated as the one or the other 
(cf. BR. v. Macdonald, 8 W. A. L. R. 149) the appropriate authority to pardon 
would be the Governor or Governor-General