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of the Legislative bodies of Our said Colony, which he is to require 
from the Clerks or other proper Officers in that behalf of the said 
Legislative Bodies. 
XIII. And whereas We have empowered Our said Governor, by 
Our said Letters Patent, to summon and call together the General 
Assembly of Our said Colony, We do further direct and enjoin that the 
persons thereupon duly elected to be Members of the said Assembly 
shall, before their sitting, take the said Oath of Allegiance, which 
Oath he shall commission fit persons, under the Seal of Our said 
Colony, to tender and administer unto them; and until the same 
shall be so taken, no person shall be capable of sitting though elected. 
XIV. And in the enactment of Laws within Our said Colony, We 
do direct and enjoin that Our said Governor observes, as far as may 
be practicable, the following Rules and Instructions (that is to say) :— 
XV. The style of enacting such laws shall be by ¢ The Governor, 
Lieutenant-Governor, or Officer Administering the Government (as 
the case may be), Council and Assembly’, and no other. 
XVI. In the passing of all laws, each different matter is to be 
provided for by a different law, without intermixing in one and the 
same law such things as have no proper relation to each other, and 
no Clause is to be inserted in or annexed to any Law which shall be 
foreign to what the title of such Law imports, and no perpetual 
clause is to be part of any temporary Law. 
XVII. Our said Governor is not to assent in Our name to any Bill 
of any of the classes hereinafter specified, that is to say :— 
1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in Holy 
Matrimony. 
+2. Any Bill whereby any grant of Land or money or other donation 
or gratuity may be made to himself. 
3. Any Bill whereby any paper or other currency may be made 
a legal tender, except the coin of the realm or other gold or silver coin. 
4. Any Bill imposing differential duties. 
5. Any Bill the provisions of which shall appear inconsistent with 
obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty. 
6. Any Bill interfering with the discipline or control of Our forces 
in Our said Colony by land and sea. 
7. Any Bill of an extraordinary nature and importance, whereby 
Our prerogative, or the rights and property of our subjects not 
residing in Our said Colony, or the trade and shipping of the United 
Kingdom and its dependencies, may be prejudiced. 
8. Any Bill containing provisions to which Our assent has been 
once refused, or which have been disallowed by Us :— 
Unless such Bill shall contain a clause suspending the operation of 
such Bill until the signification in Our said Colony of Our pleasure 
thereupon, or unless Our said Governor shall have satisfied himself 
that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought 
into immediate operation, in which case he is authorized to assent in 
Our name to such Bill unless the same shall be repugnant to the law