1584 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
committed for which the offender may be tried within the Union, 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 the Union, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, 
or any remission of the sentence passed on such offender, or any 
respite of the execution of such sentence, for such period as to the 
Governor-General may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or 
forfeitures which may become due and payable to Us. Provided 
always, that if the offender be a natural-born British subject or a 
British subject by naturalization in any part of Our Dominions, the 
Governor-General shall in no 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 the Union. 
And We do hereby direct and enjoin that the Governor-General shall 
aot pardon, grant remission to, or reprieve any such offender without 
drst receiving in cases other than capital cases the advice of one. at 
east, of his Ministers. 
Whenever any offender shall have been condemned to suffer death 
by the sentence of any Court, the Governor-General shall consult the 
Executive Council upon the case of such offender, submitting to the 
Council any report that may have been made by the Judge who tried 
the case, and, whenever it appears advisable to do so, taking measures 
to invite the attendance of such Judge at the Council. The Governor- 
General shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender unless it shall 
appear to him expedient so to do, upon receiving the advice of the 
Executive Council thereon ; but in all such cases he is to decide either 
to extend or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to his 
own deliberate judgement, whether the Members of the Executive 
Council concur therein or otherwise; entering, nevertheless, on the 
Minutes of the Executive Council, a Minute of his reasons at length 
in case he should decide any such question in opposition to the judge- 
ment of the majority of the Members thereof. 
X. Except in accordance with the provisions of any Letters 
Patent or of any Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, 
the Governor-General shall not, upon any pretence whatever, quit 
the Union without having first obtained leave from Us for so doing 
ander Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our Principal 
Secretaries of State, unless for the purpose of visiting some neigh- 
bouring Colony, Territory, or State, for periods not exceeding one 
month at any one time, nor exceeding in the aggregate one month 
for every year’s service in the Union. 
The temporary absence of the Governor-General for any period 
not exceeding one month shall not, if he have previously informed 
the Executive Council. in writing. of his intended absence. and if he