1596 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS

mn Our Privy Council, or by Us, through one of Our Principal Secretaries
 of State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in
force in the State.
III. We do also by these Our Letters Patent declare Our will and
pleasure as follows :—1
IV. Every person appointed to fill the Office of Governor shall,
with all due solemnity, before entering on any of the duties of his
Office, cause the Commission appointing him to be Governor to be
read and published at the seat of Government, in the presence of
the Chief Justice, or some other Judge of the Supreme Court of the
State? and of the Members of the Executive Council thereof, which
being done, he shall then and there take before them 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 Promissory Oaths ;
and likewise the usual Oath for the due execution of the Office of
Governor, and for the due and impartial administration of justice ;
which Oaths the said Chief Justice or Judge is hereby required to
administer.
V.3 The Governor shall keep and use the Public Seal of the State
for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the said Public Seal,
and until a Public Seal shall be provided for the State, the Great
Seal formerly used for4 Our Colony of New South Wales shall be
used as the Public Seal of the State.
VI. There shall be an Executive Council for the State, and the
said Council shall consist of such persons as were immediately before
the coming into force of these Our Letters Patent Members of the
Executive Council of New South Wales or as may at any time be
Members of the Executive Council of Our said State in accordance
with any law enacted by the Legislature of the State, and of such
other persons as the Governor shall, from time to time, in Our name
and in Our behalf, but subject to any Law as aforesaid, appoint under
the Public Seal of the State to be members of Our said Executive
Jouncil for the State.’
VIL. The Governor, in Our name and on Our behalf, may make
and. execute, under the said Public Seal, grants and dispositions of
any lands which may be lawfully granted and disposed of by Us
~1thin the State. 6

not clear in either case why the variation is made, nor is any useful purpose
served by it. The Order in Council has long since been adopted and modified by
Queensland legislation (see 31 Vict. No. 38, and amending Acts).
! In the case of Queensland and South Australia this clause is not inserted,
and Clause IV appears as XII.
* ‘Or the next Superior Judge of the State’ (Queensland and South Australia)
& Clause III in Queensland (* And we do hereby authorize our said Governor
50’) and South Australia, VI in Western Australia,
¢ ‘In’ in Victoria, Tasmania, South and Western Australia.
5 IV, Queensland and South Australia ; VII, Western Australia.
''V, Queensland and South Australia : VIII. Western Australia. which reads.