1604 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
NEWFOUNDLAND 
In the case of Newfoundland the instruments are of 
special interest as being of the older type, the first permanent 
letters patent and instructions being still valid and in force. 
There are also the usual commission and a dormant commis- 
sion to the Chief Justice. The two latter are in the usual 
form. 
LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the 
United Kingdom, constituting the Office of Governor and 
Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Newfoundland and 
its Dependencies. 
Letters Patent. Dated March 28, 1876. 
Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith : To all to whom 
these Presents shall come, Greeting : 
WHEREAS We did, by certain Letters Patent under the Great 
Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing 
late at Westminster the Sixth day of September, 1869, in the Thirty- 
Third Year of Our Reign, constitute and appoint Our Trusty and 
Well-beloved Colonel Stephen John Hill (now Sir Stephen John Hill, 
Knight Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint 
Michael and Saint George), Companion of Our Most Honourable 
Order of the Bath, to be, during Our pleasure, Our Governor and 
Jommander-in-Chief in and over Our Island of Newfoundland and its 
Dependencies. And whereas We are desirous of making effectual 
and permanent provision for the Office of Governor and Commander- 
n-Chief in and over Our said Island of Newfoundland and its Depen- 
dencies without making new Letters Patent on each demise of the 
said Office : Now know ye that We have revoked and determined, 
and 'by these presents do revoke and determine, the said recited 
Letters Patent, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained : 
And further know ye, that We, of Our special grace, certain knowledge 
and mere motion, have thought fit to constitute, order, and declare, 
and do by these presents constitute, order, and declare, that there 
shall be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief (hereinafter called Our 
said Governor) in and over Our Island of Newfoundland, and the 
[slands adjacent, and all the Coast of Labrador from the entrance of 
Hudson’s Straits to a line to be drawn due North and South, from 
Anse Sablon on the said Coast to the Fifty-Second Degree of North 
Latitude, and all the Islands adjacent to that part of the said Coast 
of Labrador, as also of all Forts and Garrisons erected and established.