NEWFOUNDLAND 1609 
officer appointed to administer the Government of Our said Colony 
shall take 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 Qur Reign, intituled * An Act to amend the Law relating to 
Promissory Oaths’; and likewise that he or they take the usual oath 
for the due execution of the office and trust of Our Governor and 
Commander-in-chief in and over Our said Colony, and for the due and 
impartial administration of justice, which said oaths the Chief Justice 
for the time being of Our said Colony, or, in his absence, or in the 
event of his being otherwise incapacitated, the Senior Judge then 
present, or, failing such Judge, the Senior Member present of Our 
said Executive Council, shall and he is hereby required to tender and 
administer unto him or them. 
II. And We do authorize and require Our said Governor, from time 
to time, and at any time hereafter, by himself or by any other person 
to be authorized by him in that behalf, to administer to all and to 
every persons or person, as he shall think fit, who shall hold any office 
or place of trust or profit, the said Oath of Allegiance, together with 
quch other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed 
by any Laws or Statutes in that behalf made and provided. 
III, And We do require Qur said Governor to communicate forth- 
with to Our Executive Council for Our said Colony these Our In- 
structions, and likewise all such others from time to time as he shall 
find convenient for Our service to be imparted to them. 
IV. And We do hereby direct and enjoin that Our said Executive 
Council shall not proceed to the dispatch of business unless duly 
summoned by authority of Our said Governor, and unless three 
Members at the least (exclusive of himself or the Member presiding) 
be present and assisting throughout the whole of the meetings at 
which any such business shall be dispatched. 
V. And We do further direct and enjoin that Qur said Governor 
do attend and preside at the meetings of Our said Executive Council, 
unless when prevented by some necessary or reasonable cause ; and 
that in his absence such Member as may be appointed by him in that 
behalf, or, in the absence of any such Member, the Senior Member of 
the said Executive Council actually present shall preside at all such 
meetings, the seniority of the Members of the Council being regulated 
according to the order of their respective appointments as Members 
of Our said Council. 
VI. And We do further direct and enjoin that a full and exact 
Journal or Minute be kept of all the deliberations, acts, proceedings, 
votes, and resolutions of Our said Executive Council, and that at 
each meeting of the said Council the Minutes of the last meeting be 
read over, confirmed, or amended, as the case may require, before 
proceeding to the dispatch of any other business. And We do further 
direct that twice in each year a full transcript of all the Minutes of 
the said Council for the preceding half year be transmitted to Us 
through one of our Principal Secretaries of State.