THE AUSTRALIAN STATES 1599 
XIV. And We do hereby require and command all Our Officers and 
Ministers, and all other the inhabitants of the State, to be obedient, 
aiding, and assisting unto the Governor, or to such person or persons 
as may from time to time, under the provisions of these Our Letters 
Patent, administer the Government of the State. 
XV. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and suc- 
cessors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, 
or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or them shall seem meet.? 
XVI. And We do direct and enjoin that these Qur Letters Patent 
shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places within the State 
as the Governor shall think fit.3 
In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made 
Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of 
October, in the Sixty-fourth year of Our reign. 
By Warrant under the Queen’s Sign Manual. 
MUIR MACKENZIE. 
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[INSTRUCTIONS passed under the Royal Sign Manual and 
Signet to the Governor of the State of New South Wales 
and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, 
Dated October 29, 1900. 
VICTORIA R. IL 
[nsTrucTIONS to Our Governor in and over Our State of New South 
Wales and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia 
or to Our Lieutenant-Governor, or other Officer for the time being 
administering the Government of Our said State and its Depen- 
dencies. 
Given at Our Court at Saint James’s, this Twenty-ninth day of 
October 1900, in the Sixty-fourth year of Our reign. 
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent bearing even date herewith, 
We have constituted, ordered, and declared that there shall be 
a Governor in and over Our State of New South Wales and its 
Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia (which said State 
of New South Wales and its Dependencies are therein and hereinafter 
~alled the State) : 
being of the State, or if there be no such Officer, or if such Officer be absent or 
unable to act, then any other person, to be his Deputy in the State during such 
:emporary absence, and in that capacity to exercise, perform, and execute for 
and on behalf of the Governor during such absence, but no longer, all such 
powers and authorities vested in the Governor, by these Our Letters Patent, 
as shall in and by such Instrument be specified and limited, but no others. 
Provided, nevertheless, that by the appointment of a Deputy as aforesaid, the 
power and authority of the Governor of the State shall not be abridged, altered, 
or in any way affected, otherwise than We may.at any time hereafter think 
proper to direct. 
"XV, Western Australia ; XITI, Queensland and South Australia. 
"XVI, Western Australia ; XIV, Queensland and South Australia. 
XVII, Western Australia ; XV, Queensland and South Australia, 
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