to the several Powers and Authorities of Our said Commission under Our Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of these Our Instructions to you and according to such further Powers Instructions and Authorities as you shall at any time hereafter receive under Our Signet and Sign Manual or by Our Order in Our Privy Council or by Us through One of Our Principal Secretaries of State.

2nd. As soon after your Arrival at the said Settlement as convenience will permit you are with all due Solemnity and in the presence of Our Lieutenant Governor or in case of his Absence in the presence of the Commander in Chief of Our Forces then in the said Settlement or such other person as you shall call to be present for such purpose to cause Our said Commission to be read and published which being done you shall then take the Oaths mentioned in An Act passed in the first Year of His late Majesty King George the First Intituled "An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors" as altered and explained by An Act passed in the sixth Year of Our Reign Intituled “An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance and for Amending so much of an Act of the seventh year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne Intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms' as after the time therein limited requires the delivery of certain Lists therein mentioned to Persons indicted for High Treason or Misprision of Treason" And also to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the twenty fifth year of the Reign of King Charles The Second Intituled " An Act for preventing the dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants" and you are likewise to take an Oath for the due execution of your Place and Trust and for the equal and impartial administration of Justice and you are also to take An Oath required by An Act passed in the seventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third to be taken by Governors of Plantations to do their utmost that the Laws relating to the Plantations be duly observed subject to such Orders touching the Trade to and from the said Settlement as We have made or shall make in pursuance of the Powers for that purpose vested in Us by virtue of An Act passed in the Forty

ninth Year of Our Reign Chapter 17 Intituled "An Act to Authorize His Majesty during the present War to make alterations respecting the Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope" Which Oaths shall be administered by Our Lieutenant Governor or in his Absence by the said Commander in Chief of Our Forces or such other Persons as you shall call to be present for such purpose.

3rd. You shall Also administer or cause to be administered to all persons that shall be appointed to or hold or exercise any Office or Place of Trust or Profit in the said Settlement except in the cases hereafter provided for previous to their entering on the execution of the Duties of such Office or Place the Oath appointed in the aforesaid Acts passed in the first Year of the Reign of King George The First as altered and explained by An Act passed in the sixth Year of Our Reign and you shall also cause them to make and subscribe the Declaration Mentioned in the aforesaid Act of the Twenty fifth year of the Reign of King Charles the Second but in cases where any such Office Place of Trust or Profit within the said Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope shall be conferred on the Inhabitants of the said Settlement who may observe any mode of Evangelic Worship different from that of the Church of England you shall so often as any such person shall or may be admitted into any such Office or Place of Trust or Profit administer or cause to be administered to him in the English or Dutch Language as the case may require the Oath prescribed in and by an Act of Parliament passed in the 14th Year of Our Reign Intituled "An Act for making more effectual Provision for the due execution of such Office Place of Trust or Profit" in lieu of all other Tests or Oaths whatsoever.

4th. It is Our Royal Will and Pleasure that for the present and until Our Pleasure be further signified the temporary Administration of Justice and Police in the Settlement should as nearly as circumstances will permit be exercised by you in conformity to the Laws and Institutions that subsisted under the Ancient Government of the said Settlement subject to such alterations Regulations and Improvements as may have been made during the time the Cape has been in Our Possession provided you shall find such alterations regulations and improvements to be suitable to the present circumstances of the Colony and subject also to such directions as you shall now or hereafter receive from Us under

Our Signet and Sign Manual or by Our Order in Our Privy Council or from Us thro' one of our Principal Secretaries of State and to such deviations in consequence of sudden and unforseen emergencies or to such Expedient and useful alterations as may render a departure therefrom either absolutely necessary and unavoidable or evidently beneficial and desirable and which you are immediately to represent to One of Our Principal Secretaries of State for Our information but it is nevertheless Our especial Command that all the Powers of Government within the said Settlement shall be vested solely in you Our Governor or in the Person having the Government of the said Settlement for the time being and that such Powers as were heretofore exercised by any Person or Person separately or in conjunction with the Governor of the said Settlement shall belong solely to you Our Governor or to the Person having the Government of the said Settlement for the time being and It is Our Will and Pleasure that all Public Acts and Judicial Proceedings shall henceforth be done issued and performed in the name of the Governor and shall previous to their being published or put in execution be signed by the Chief Secretary to the Government by the authority of the Governor or of the Person having the Government of the said Settlement for the time being.

5th. Whereas a considerable part of the Revenue of the said Settlement is derived from the Annual Quit Rents paid by the Persons holding Lands granted to them by the Dutch Government Our Will and Pleasure is and We hereby strictly require of you to take the necessary measures for ensuring hereafter a due regularity in the payment of the said Quit Rents as the only means of preventing the Renewal of the losses heretofore occasioned by the accumulations of Arrears in this Branch of the Public Revenue.

6th. Whereas it appears by the statements received from your Predecessors that the Credit of the Paper Money now in Circulation in the said Colony has been considerably improved under the various checks and regulations by which the issue and circulation thereof are now governed and carried on and that the amount of the same is adequate to all the purposes for which l'aper Money is requisite and can be applied in the said Settlement without the risk of impairing Public Credit Our Will and Pleasure is and you are hereby required not to alter any part of the arrangements now

in force with respect to this important point nor to add to the Total amount of Paper Money now issued and in Circulation without Our especial Authority for so doing signified to you under Our Signet and Sign Manual or by Our Order in Our Privy Council or by Us through One of Our Principal Secretaries of State but you will be at liberty and you are hereby directed to cause fresh issues thereof to be made from time to time as may appear necessary to replace such parts of the said Paper Money now in circulation as may be worn out and defaced or otherwise unfit for further use and you are on no account to omit any forms or Regulations which have been heretofore observed on occasion either of destroying any of the Paper Money so recalled from circulation or of making new issue thereof to replace it.

7th. Whereas it appears to Us expedient that you Our Governor for the time being together with Our Lieutenant Governor or in your or his absence you or Our Lieutenant Governor whichever of you may be present should form a Court of Civil Jurisdiction for hearing and determining Appeals within the said Settlement Our Will and Pleasure therefore is that you do in all Civil Causes on Application being made to you for that purpose permit and allow Appeals from any of the Courts of Law in the said Settlement unto You or Our Lieutenant Governor provided nevertheless that in all such Appeals the Sum or Value appealed for do exceed the Sum of £200 Sterling and that Security be first duly given by the Appellant to answer such Charges as shall be awarded in case the first Sentence be affirmed And if either Party shall not rest satisfied with the Judgment of you or Our Lieutenant Governor as aforesaid Our Will and Pleasure is that they may then Appeal unto Us in Our Privy Council provided the Sum or Value so Appealed for unto Us do exceed £500 Sterling and that Such appeal be made within fourteen days after Sentence and good Security be given by the Appellant that he will effectually prosecute the same and answer the condemnation as also pay such Costs and Damages as shall be Awarded by Us in case the Sentence of you or Our Lieutenant Governor be affirmed provided nevertheless when the matter in question relates to the taking or demanding any duty payable to Us or to any established Fee of Office or Annual Rents or other such like matter or thing where the Rights in future may be bound in all Such Cases you are to admit an Appeal to Us in Our Privy Council tho' the immediate

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Sum or value appealed for be of less value And it is Our Will and Pleasure that in all Cases where by your Instructions you are to admit Appeals unto Us in Our Privy Council Execution shall be suspended until the final determination of such Appeal unless good and sufficient Security be given by the Appellee to make complete restitution of all that the Appellant shall have lost by means of such Decree or Judgment in case upon the determination of such appeal such Decree or Judgment should be reversed and restitution ordered to the appellant You are also to admit Appeals unto Us in Our Privy Council in all Cases of Fines imposed for misdemeanours provided the Fines so imposed amount to or exceed the Sum of £100 Sterling the Appellant first giving good Security that he will effectually prosecute the same and answer the Condemnation if the Sentence by which such Fine was imposed in your Government shall be confirmed.

8th. Our Will and Pleasure is that all Orders Regulations or Laws made by You or Our Lieutenant Governor shall when transmitted by You for Our information and for the Signification of Our pleasure thereon be fairly abstracted in the Margins and accompanied with very full and particular observations upon each of them that is to say whether the same is introductory to a new Order Regulation or Law or declaratory of a former Order Regulation or Law then before in being and you are also to transmit in the fullest manner the reasons and occasions for making such Orders Regulations or Laws.

9th. You are to give Warrants under your hand for the issuing of all Public Monies for all public Services and We do particularly require you to take care that regular Accounts for all Receipts and Payments of Public Monies be duly Kept and that Copies thereof attested by you be transmitted every half Year or oftener if there shall be occasion to Our Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our High Treasurer for the time being and Duplicates thereof by the next conveyance in which Accounts shall be specified every particular Sum raised or disposed of to the end that We may take such measures as We may deem necessary for the examination of the said Accounts and that We may be satisfied of the right and due application of the Revenues of the said Settlement and with the probability of the Increase or Diminution of them under every head and Article thereof.

10th. And you shall not remit any Fines or Forfeitures whatso