TO SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

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provisions of the said Act no person shall be summoned by you to such Legislative Council who shall not be of the full age of twenty-one years, and a natural born subject of Her Majesty, or a subject of Her Majesty naturalized by Act of Parliament or by an Act of the Legislature of New Zealand. Fourth. And for the execution of so much of the powers as are vested in you by the said recited Act passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of our Reign, for assenting to or dissenting from or reserving for the signification of our Royal pleasure, Bills which have been passed by the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives: \Ve do by these our instruction under our Sign Manual and Signet enjoin and require you to be guided by the following Rules, Directions and Instructions, that is to say: Fifth. You are as much as possible to observe in the passing of all Laws that each different matter 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 you are more especially to take care that no Clause or Clauses be inserted in or annexed to any Bill which shall be foreign to what the Title of such Bill imports, and that no perpetual Clause be part of any temporary Law. Sixth. When any Bill is presented to you for our Absent, of either of the Clauses hereinafter specified, you shall (unless you shall think proper to withhold our assent from the same) reserve the same for the signification of our pleasure thereon, subject, nevertheless, to your discretion, in ease you should be of opinion that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought into immediate operation, in which case you are authorised to assent to such Bill in our name, transmitting to us by the earliest opportunity the Bill so assented to together with your reasons for assenting thereto; 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 yourself. 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 for raising money by the institution of public or private Lotteries. 5. Any private Bill whereby the property of any individual may be affected, in which there is not a saving of the rights of us, our Heirs and Successors, and of all Bodies Politic or Corporate, and of all other persons excepting those at whose instance or for whose especial benefit such Bill may be introduced, and those claiming by, from, through, and under them. 6. Any Bill imposing Differential Duties. 7. Any Bill, the provisions of which shall appear inconsistent with obligations imposed upon us by Treaty. 8. Any Bill interfering with the Discipline or Control of our Forces in the Colony by Land and Sea. 9. Any Bill that shall purport to he enacted for a time less than one year. 10. Any Bill of an extraordinary nature and importance whereby our Prerogative or the Rights and Property of our Subjects not residing in the Colony, or the Trade and Shipping of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, may be prejudiced. 11. Any Bill containing provisions to which our Assent has been once refused, or which have been disallowed by us.

Seventh. You shall take care that all Laws assented to by you in our name, or Reserved for the signification of our Royal Pleasure thereon, shall, when transmitted by you, be fairly abstracted in the margins, and bo accompanied with explanatory observations upon each of them, aud you are also to transmit a statement of the reasons, and of the occasion for proposing such Law, together with fair Copies of the Journals aud Minutes of the Proceedings of the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives which you are to require from the Clerks or other proper Officers in that behalf of the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives, Eighth. You are to communicate forthwith to our Executive Council for our said Colony these our instructions, aud likewise all such others from time to time as you shall find convenient for our service to be imparted to them. Ninth. And we do hereby declare, and it is our pleasure, that our said executive Council shall not proceed to the Despatch of Business unless duly summoned by your authority, and unless two Members at the least (exclusive of yourself or the member presiding) be present aud assisting throughout the whole of the Meetings at which any sueli Business shall be despatched. Tenth. And it is our pleasure that you do attend and preside at the Meetings of our said Executive Council, unless when prevented by some necessary or reas< uable cause. And you are hereby further authorised to appoint by an instrument under the Public Seal of the Province, one Member of the said Executive Council to preside in your absence, and to remove him and appoirt another in his stead; and if, during your absence, the Member so appointed shall al-o be absent, then the Senior Member of the said Executive Council actually present shall preside at, ail such Meetings, the seniority of the Members of the Council being regulated according to the priority of their appointments as Members of the said Council. Eleventh. Aud we do further direct and Command that a full and exact Journal or Minute be kept of all the Deliberations, Acts, Proceedings, Votes and Resolutions of our said 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.