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have duly appointed a Deputy in accordance with the above recited
Letters Patent, nor shall any extension of such period sanctioned
by one of Our Principal Secretaries of State and not exceeding
fourteen days, be deemed absence from the Union within the meaning
of the said Letters Patent. .
Given at Our Court at Saint James's, this Twenty-ninth day of
December, 1909, in the Ninth Year of Our Reign.
IIT
COMMISSION under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet,
appointing the Right Honourable Viscount Gladstone to
be Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the
ITnion of South Africa.
(This is identical in substance with Clauses I, II, and IV of the
Canadian Commission, with the necessary omission in Clause II of
any reference to instructions already given to former Governors-
General.)
NEW ZEALAND
In the Dominion there are in addition to the Letters
Patent and Instructions the Commission and a Dormant
Commission.
LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom, constituting the Office of Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand.
Letters Patent dated November 18, 1907.
Edward the Seventh, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond
the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India : To all
to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.
WHEREAS, by certain Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of
Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of February, 1879, Her late
Majesty Queen Victoria did constitute, order, and declare that there
should be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies (therein called the Colony)
and that appointments to the said Office when vacant should be
made by Commission under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet :
And whereas by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh years of the Reign of Her late Majesty
Oueen Victoria. entitled © An Act to alter the Boundaries of New
