1606 PREROGATIVE INSTRUMENTS 
with the advice and consent of the said Legislative Council and 
Assembly of Our said Colony, to make laws for the public peace. 
welfare, and good government of Our said Colony. 
VI. And We do further authorize and empower Our said Governor 
to keep and use the Public Seal of Our said Colony for sealing all things 
whatsoever that shall pass the said Public Seal. 
VII. And We do further authorize and empower Our said Governor, 
in Our name and on Our behalf, to make and execute, under the said 
Seal, grants and dispositions of any lands which may be lawfully 
granted or disposed of by Us within Our said Colony. 
VIII. And We do further authorize and empower Our said 
Governor to constitute and appoint in Our name and on Our behalf 
all such Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and other neces- 
sary Officers and Ministers in Our said Colonv as may be lawfully 
>onstituted or appointed by Us. 
IX. And We do further authorize and empower Our said Governor, 
as he shall see occasion, in Qur name and on Our behalf, when any 
crime has been committed within Our said Colony, or for which the 
offender may be tried therein, to grant a pardon to any accomplice, 
not being the actual perpetrator of such crime, who shall give such 
information and evidence as shall lead to the apprehension and 
conviction of the principal offender ; and further, to grant to any 
offender convicted of any crime in any Court, or before any Judge, 
Justice, or Magistrate, within Our said Colony, a pardon, either free 
or subject to lawful conditions, or any respite of the execution of the 
sentence of any such offender, for such period as to Our said Governor 
may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures, which 
may become due and payable to Us. Provided always that Our said 
Governor shall in no case make it a condition of any pardon or 
remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from, or 
shall absent himself from Our said Colony. 
X. And We do further authorize and empower Our said Governor, 
so far as We lawfully may, upon sufficient cause to him appearing, 
to remove from his office, or to suspend from the exercise of the same, 
any person exercising any such office or place within Our said Colony, 
under or by virtue of any Commission or Warrant granted, or which 
may be granted, by Us in Our name, or under Our authority. 
XI. And We do hereby declare Our pleasure to be that, in the event 
of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence of Our said Governor 
out of Our said Colony, all and every the powers and authorities 
herein granted to you shall, until Our further pleasure is signified 
therein, be, and the same are hereby vested in such person as may be 
appointed by Us under Our Sign Manual and Signet, to be Our 
Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Colony, or if there shall be no such 
Lieutenant-Governor in Our said Colony, then in such person or 
persons as may be appointed by Us under Our Sign Manual and Signet 
to administer the Government of the same ; and, in case there shall 
be no person or persons within Our said Colony so appointed by Us,