1600 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
And whereas We have thereby authorized and commanded the 
Governor to do and execute all things that belong to his said office, 
according to the tenor of Our said Letters Patent, and of such 
Commission 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 Qur 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 are now or shall hereafter be in force in 
the State : 
And whereas We did issue certain Instructions under Our Sign 
Manual and Signet to Our Governor and Cormmander-in-Chief in and 
aver Our Colony of New South Wales and its Dependencies. bearing 
late the Ninth day of July 1892. 
Now know you that We do hereby revoke the aforesaid Instructions, 
and We do by these Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and 
Signet direct and enioin and declare Qur will and pleasure as fol- 
lows :~— 
I. In these Our instructions, unless inconsistent with the context, 
the term ‘ the Governor ’ shall include every person for the time being 
administering the Government of the State, and the term © Executive 
Council’ shall mean the members of Our Executive Council for the State 
who are for the time being the responsible advisers of the Governor. 
II. The Governor may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person 
in the public service to take the Oath of Allegiance, together with 
such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed 
by any law in force in the State. The Governor is to administer such 
oaths or cause them to be administered by some Public Officer of the 
State. 
III. The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instruc- 
tions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from 
dime to time, as he shall find convenient for Our service to impart 
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IV. The Governor shall attend and preside at the meetings of the 
Executive Council, unless prevented by some necessary or reasonable 
cause, and in his absence such member as may be appointed by him 
in that behalf, or in the absence of such member the senior member 
of the Executive Council actually present shall preside ; the seniority 
of the members of the said Council being regulated according to the 
der of their respective appointments as members thereof. 
V. The Executive Council shall not proceed to the dispatch of 
business unless duly summoned by authority of the Governor nor 
anless two members at the least (exclusive of the Governor or of the 
member presiding) be present and assisting throughout the whole 
of the meetings at which any such business shall be dispatched. 
VI. Tn the execution of the powers and authorities vested in him, 
* The words in italics occur only in the Victorian instructions. It is curious 
that they do not also occur in the Tasmanian instruments, as there also the 
Executive Council contains ex-members. See also, p. 1590. n. 2.