582 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
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INSTRUCTIONS passed under the Royal Sign Manual and 
Signet to the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief 
of the Union of South Africa. 
Dated December 29, 1909. 
EDWARD R. & I. 
InsTRUCTIONS to Our Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in 
and over Our Union of South Africa, or in his absence, to Our 
Lieutenant-Governor or the Officer for the time being administering 
the Government of the Union. 
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 Union of South Africa 
{therein and hereinafter called the Union) : 
And whereas We have thereby authorized and commanded the 
Governor-General to do and execute in due manner all things that 
shall belong to his said office, 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 Com- 
mission 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 the Union : 
Now, therefore, We do, by these Our Instructions under Qur 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 Qur Sign Manual and Signet 
appointing him to be read and published in the presence of the Senior 
Military Officer for the time being in command of Qur Regular Forces 
in South Africa, and of such persons as are able to attend. 
II. The said first appointed Governor-General shall take the Oath 
of Allegiance and the Oath of Office in the forms provided by an Act 
passed in the Session holden in the thirty-first and thirty-second 
years of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled ¢ An 
Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths’; which Oaths 
the senior Chief Justice or Judge of the Supreme Courts of the Cape 
of Good Hope, Natal, and the Transvaal, and the High Court of the 
Orange River Colony then present is hereby required to tender and 
administer unto him. 
III. Every Governor-General of the Union after the said first 
appointed Governor-General, shall, with all due solemnity, cause Our 
Commission, under Our Sign Manual and Signet, appointing him to 
be Governor-General. to be read and published in the presence of the