45. [Salaries of Judges.]

46. All taxes, imports, rates, and duties, and all territorial, casual, and other revenues of the Crown (including royalties) from whatever source arising within the Colony, over which the Legislature has power of appropriation, shall form one Consolidated Revenue Fund to be appropriated to the Public Service of the Colony in the manner and subject to the charges hereinafter mentioned.

47. The Consolidated Revenue Fund shall be permanently charged with all the costs, charges, and expenses incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof; such cost, charges, and expenses being subject nevertheless to be reviewed and audited in such manner as may from time to time be directed by any Act of the Legislature.

48. All Bills for appropriating any part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or for imposing, altering, or repealing any rate, tax, duty, or impost, shall originate in the Legislative Assembly. 49. The Legislative Council may either accept or reject any money Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly, but may not alter it.

50. It shall not be lawful for the Legislative Assembly to adopt or pass any vote, resolution, or Bill for the appropriation of any part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, or of any rate, tax, duty or impost to any purpose which has not been first recommended to the said Assembly by Message of the Governor during the Session in which such vote, resolution, or Bill is proposed.

51. No part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund shall be issued except in pursuance of warrants under the hand of the Governor directed to the Treasurer.

52. There shall be payable to Her Majesty, in every year, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, sums not exceeding in the whole £21,700 sterling (Twenty-one Thousand Seven Hundred Pounds), for defraying the expenses of the services and purposes set forth in Schedules 1 A and B to this Act, and the said several sums shall be issued by the Treasurer in discharge of such warrants as shall from time to time be directed to him under the hand of the Governor.

53. [Appointment to public offices to be by Governor in Council.]

54. [Removal of Civil Servants to be by Governor in Council.]

55. [Pensions to be granted to present official Members of Council if they retire on political grounds. But such members accepting any other appointment under the Crown shall forfeit such pension in whole or in part.] P.R.O., C.O. 180/9.

1 Schedules not printed in this volume.

OFFICE OF GOVERNOR CONSTITUTED. [20 July 1893.] No. 127. Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India: To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS by Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bearing date the Fifteenth day of July 1856, We did erect the District of Natal into a separate Colony to be called the Colony of Natal:

And Whereas by the said Letters Patent and by certain other several Letters Patent under the said Great Seal bearing date respectively the Twenty-second day of December 1869, the Twenty-second day of May 1872, and the Twenty-seventh day of October 1890, We did make provision for the Government of Our said Colony:

And Whereas an alteration in the Constitution of Our said Colony has been effected by a law of the Colony styled the "Constitution Act of 1893":

Now We do by these presents revoke Our said recited Letters Patent, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder, reserving nevertheless to Ourselves, Our heirs and successors, full power to disallow any Law passed by the Legislature of Our said Colony, and to signify such disallowance through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State at any time within two years after an authentic copy of such laws shall have been received by Us or by one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. And We do further hereby declare Our will and pleasure as follows:

II. There shall be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Natal (hereinafter called the Colony), and appointments to the said office shall be made by Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet.

III. We do hereby authorise, empower, and command Our said Governor and Commander-in-Chief (hereinafter called the Governor) to do and execute all things that belong to his said office, and to exercise the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Constitution Act of 1893, or by any other Act adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, and by these Our Letters Patent, or by any other Our Letters Patent adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, and by such Commission as may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him under Our Sign Manual and

Signet, or by Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the Colony.

IV. Every person appointed to fill the office of Governor shall, with all due solemnity, before entering on any of the duties of his office, cause the Commission appointing him to be Governor to be read and published at the seat of Government, in the presence of the Chief Justice or some other Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony and of the Members of the Executive Council thereof; which being done, he shall then and there take before them the Oath of Allegiance in the form provided by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Thirtyfirst and Thirty-second years of Our Reign, intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to Promissory Oaths"; and likewise the usual Oath for the due execution of the office of Governor, and for the due and impartial administration of justice; which Oaths the said Chief Justice or Judge is hereby required to administer.

V. The Governor shall keep and use the Public Seal of the Colony for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the Public Seal.

VI. There shall be an Executive Council for the Colony, and the said Council shall consist of such persons as may at any time be Members thereof in accordance with any Law of the Colony, and of such other persons as the Governor shall, from time to time, in Our name and on Our behalf, but subject to any Law, as aforesaid, appoint under the Public Seal of the Colony to be Members of Our said Executive Council.

VII. The Governor, in Our name and on Our behalf, may make and execute under the said Public Seal, grants and dispositions of lands within the Colony, subject to the Laws in force for the time being for regulating the sale or disposal of Crown lands.

VIII. The Governor may constitute and appoint, in Our name and on Our behalf, all such Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and other necessary Officers and Ministers in the Colony, as may be lawfully constituted or appointed by Us.

IX. When any crime has been committed within the Colony, or for which the offender may be tried therein, the Governor may, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, grant a pardon to any accomplice in such crime who shall give such information as 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 further 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 other grave crime, make it a condition of any pardon or remission of sentence that the offender shall absent himself or be removed from the Colony.

X. The Governor may, so far as We Ourselves lawfully may, upon sufficient cause to him appearing, remove from his office, or suspend from the exercise of the same, any person holding any office or place within the Colony under or by virtue of any Commission or Warrant or other instrument granted, or which may be granted by Us or in Our name or under Our authority.

XI. The Governor may exercise all powers lawfully belonging to Us in respect of the summoning, proroguing, or dissolving any Legislative Body, which now is or hereafter may be established within the Colony, and in respect of the appointment of members thereto.

XII. [If the office of Governor becomes vacant the duties shall be carried out by a Lieutenant-Governor or other officer appointed by the Crown.]

XIII. [If the Governor is absent from the Colony for any period not exceeding one month, he shall none the less continue to fill the office of Governor.]

XIV. [During such temporary absence the Governor may appoint a Deputy to act for him.]

XV. [All officers, ministers, and other inhabitants shall be aiding and assisting the Governor.]

XVI. [The term "Governor" shall include every person for the time being administering the government of the Colony.]

XVII. [Power is reserved to revoke, alter, and amend these Letters Patent.]

XVIII. 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 shall think fit.

In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Twentieth day of July, in the Fifty-seventh year of Our Reign. By Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual.

MUIR MACKENZIE.

Statutes of Natal, " Parliament," p. 33.

GOVERNOR'S INSTRUCTIONS.

No. 128. To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Natal, or to Our Lieutenant-Governor or other Officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony.

Given at Our Court at St. James's, this Twentieth day of July 1893, in the Fifty-seventh year of Our Reign. WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent bearing even date herewith We have constituted, ordered, and declared that there shall be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief (therein and hereinafter called the Governor) in and over Our Colony of Natal (therein and hereinafter called the Colony):

And Whereas We have thereby authorised, empowered, and commanded the Governor to do and execute all things that belong to his said office, and to exercise the powers and authorities vested in him by a Law of the Colony styled the "Constitution Act, 1893," or by any other Act adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, and by Our said Letters Patent, or by any other Our Letters Patent adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, and by such commission as may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and according to such instructions as may from time to time be given to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the Colony :

And Whereas We did issue certain Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February 1882, and certain Additional Instructions bearing date respectively the Sixth day of June 1885 and the Sixth day of December 1889; Now know you that We do hereby revoke the aforesaid Instructions and Additional Instructions and We do by these Our Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet direct and enjoin and declare Our Will and Pleasure as follows:

I. In these Our Instructions, unless inconsistent with the context, the term "Governor" shall include every person for the time being administering the Government of the Colony.

II. The Governor may, whenever he thinks fit, require any person in the public service to take the Oath of Allegiance, together with such other Oath or Oaths as may from time to time be prescribed by any Law in force in the Colony. The Governor is to administer such Oaths or cause them to be administered by some Public Officer of the Colony.

III. The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instructions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such