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by any instructions under our Sign Manual and Signet, and all such persons shall hold their places in the said Council during our pleasure.

6. There shall be a Legislative Council in and for the Colony, and the said Council shall consist of the Governor and such persons, not being less than two at any time, as we shall direct by any instructions under our Sign Manual and Signet, and all such persons shall hold their places in the said Council during our pleasure.

7. In pursuance of the powers vested in us by an Act of Parliament, passed in the Session holden in the fiftieth and fifty-first years of our reign, intituled "An Act to enable Her Majesty to provide for the government of her Possessions acquired by Settlement,' we do hereby delegate to the persons who shall from time to time compose the said Legislative Council full power and authority, subject always to any conditions, provisoes, and limitations prescribed by any instructions under our Sign Manual and Signet, to establish such Ordinances, not being repugnant to the law of England, and to constitute such Courts and officers, and to make such provisions and regulations for the proceedings in such Courts and for the administration of justice, as may be necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the Colony.

8. We do hereby reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, full power and authority, and our and their undoubted right, to disallow any such Ordinances, and to signify such disallowance through one of our Principal Secretaries of State. Every such disallowance shall take effect from the time when the same shall be promulgated by the Governor in the Colony.

We do also reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, our and their undoubted right, with the advice of our or their Privy Council, from time to time to make all such Laws or Ordinances as may appear to us or them necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the Colony.

9. In the making of any Ordinances the Governor and the Legis. lative Council shall conform to and observe all rules, regulations, and directions in that behalf contained in any instructions under our Sign Manual and Signet.

10. The Governor, in our name and on our behalf, may make and execute, under the public seal, grants and dispositions of any lands within the Colony which may be lawfully granted or disposed of by us: Provided that every such grant or disposition be made in conformity, either with some law in force in the Colony, or with some instructions addressed to the Governor under our Sign Manual and

* Vol. LXXVIII, page 824.

Siguet, or through one of our Principal Secretaries of State, or with some regulation in force in the Colony.

11. The Governor may constitute and appoint all such Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and other necessary officers and Ministers as may be lawfully constituted or appointed by us, all of whom, unless otherwise provided by law, shall hold their offices during our pleasure.

12. The Governor may, upon sufficient cause to him appearing, suspend from the exercise of his office any person holding any office within the Colony, whether appointed by virtue of any commission or warrant from us or in our name, or by any other mode of appointment. Every such suspension shall continue and have effect only until our pleasure therein shall be signified to the Governor. In proceeding to any such suspension, the Governor is strictly to observe the directions in that behalf given to him by any instructions as aforesaid.

13. When any crime has been committed within the Colony, or for which the offender may be tried therein, the Governor may, as be shall see occasion, in our name and on our behalf, grant a pardon to any accomplice in such crime who shall give such information ast shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders if more than one; and further, may grant to any offender convicted in any Court, or before any Judge or other Magistrate within the Colony, a pardon either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any remission of the sentence passed on such offender, or any respite of the execution of such sentence for such period as the Governor thinks fit; and may remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures due or accrued to us: Provided always that the Governor shall in no case, except where the offence has been of a political nature unaccompanied by any grave crime, make it a condition of any pardon or remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from or shall absent himself or be removed from the Colony.

14. Whenever the office of Governor is vacant, or if the Governor become incapable or be absent from the Colony, our LieutenantGovernor of the Colony, or if there be no such officer therein, then such person or persons as we may appoint under our Sign Manual and Signet, and in default of any such appointment the senior member for the time being of the Executive Council of the Colony, shall, during our pleasure, administer the government of the Colony, first taking the oaths hereinbefore directed to be taken by the Governor and in the manner herein prescribed; which being done, we do hereby authorize, empower, and command our Lieutenant-Governor or any other such Administrator as aforesaid to do and execute during our pleasure all things that belong to the office of Governor

and Commander-in-chief, according to the tenour of these our Letters Patent, and according to our instructions as aforesaid, and the laws of the Colony.

15. And we do hereby require and command all our officers and Ministers, civil and military, and all other the inhabitants of the Colony, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting unto the Governor and to such person or persons as may from time to time under the provisions of these our Letters Patent administer the government of the Colony.

16. In the construction of these our Letters Patent, the term "the Governor," unless inconsistent with the context, shall include every person for the time being administering the government of the Colony.

17. And we do hereby reserve to ourselves, our heirs and successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these our Letters Patent as to us or them shall seem fit.

18. And we do direct and enjoin that these our Letters Patent shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places within the Colony as the Governor may think fit.

In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, the 25th day of February, in the fifty-fifth year of our reign.

By Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual.

MUIR MACKENZIE.

NOTICES issued by the Government of Queensland, prohibiting the Recruitment of Pacific Island Labourers in the Santa Cruz Islands, the Island of Tongoa, and in the Islands within the German Sphere of Influence.--Brisbane, July 11, 1892.

(I)

Chief Secretary's Office, Brisbane, July 11, 1892.

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS LABOURERS ACTS, 1880-1892.

NOTICE.

WHEREAS, by Regulation No. 19 of the Regulations made in pursuance of the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, and published in the "Gazette" of the 21st May, 1892, it is provided that the Minister may, by a general direction published in the Gazette," or by a special direction given on granting a licence in

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respect of any particular ship, forbid the recruiting of labourers at any specified island or islands, and that Government Agents are required to see that all such directions are obeyed:

Now, therefore, I, the Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Chief Secretary of Queensland, being the Minister charged with the execution of the said Acts, do forbid the recruiting of Pacific Island labourers at the group known as the Santa Cruz Islands, and at the Island of Tongoa, in the New Hebrides; and all Government Agents and masters of labour vessels are required to take notice of this direction, and to see that the same is obeyed. S. W. GRIFFITH.

(II.)

Chief Secretary's Office, Brisbane, July 11, 1892.

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS LABOURERS ACTS, 1880-1892.

NOTICE.

WHEREAS, by Regulation No. 19 of the Regulations made in pursuance of the provisions of the above-mentioned Acts, and published in the "Gazette." of the 21st May, 1892, it is provided that the Minister may, by a general direction published in the "Gazette," or by a special direction given on granting a licence in respect of any particular ship, forbid the recruiting of labourers at any specified island or islands, and that Government Agents are required to see that all such directions are obeyed:

Now, therefore, I, the Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Chief Secretary of Queensland, being the Minister charged with the execution of the said Acts, do forbid the recruiting of Pacific Island labourers at any place or island within the German sphere of influence in the Western Pacific, that is to say, any place or island lying to the west, north-west, or north of the conventional line of demarcation agreed upon by the Declaration made by the Governments of Great Britain and the German Empire, and signed at Berlin on the 6th April, 1886,* and which line of demarcation is as follows:

Starting from the north-east coast of New Guinea at a point near Mitre Rock, on the 8th parallel of south latitude, being the boundary between the German and British possessions on that coast, and following that parallel to its intersection with the

* Vol. LXXVII, page 42

154th degree of east longitude; thence by a line to a point situate in 7° 15' south latitude, and 155° 25' east longitude; thence by a line to a point situate in 7° 15' south latitude, and 155° 35′ east longitude; thence by a line to a point situate in 7° 25′ south latitude, and 156° 40′ east longitude; thence by a line to a point situate in 8° 50' south latitude, and 159° 50′ east longitude; thence by a line to a point situate in 6° north latitude, and 170° 30′ east longitude; and thence by a line to a point situate in 15° north latitude, and 173° 30' east longitude.

And all Government Agents and masters of labour vessels are required to take notice of this direction, and to see that the same is obeyed.

S. W. GRIFFITH.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Abolition of Import Duties on Goods from foreign Countries entering the Free Port of Zanzibar.-London, February 8, 1892.*

Foreign Office, February 8, 1892.

NOTICE.

FREE PORT OF ZANZIBAR.

INFORMATION has been received from Mr. Gerald Portal, C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, that on the 1st instant he publicly declared that on and after that day import duties on all goods coming from foreign countries into the port of Zanzibar would cease and be abolished.

The following articles are, however, for the public good, excepted from the terms of this Declaration :

1. Arms and munitions of war.

2. Alcoholic liquors, with the exception of beer and wines of lower strength than 50 degrees centigrade.

3. Kerosine and all other explosive oils or dangerous substances. The duty on these latter articles will be remitted under certain conditions of storage.

All the above-mentioned articles will still remain subject to the duties leviable under existing Treaties with foreign Powers, or under the provisions of the General Act of the Brussels Conference, so soon as the latter shall come into force.

The above Notice applies only to the port of Zanzibar itself.

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