ever above the Sum of £10 nor dispose of any Forfeitures whatsoever until upon signifying unto the Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our High Treasurer for the time being the nature of the Offence and the occasion of such Fines and Forfeitures with the particular Sum or Value thereof (which you are to do with all speed) you shall have received Our directions thereon but you may in the meantime suspend the payment of the said Fines and Forfeitures.

11th. It is Our further Will and Pleasure that all Commissions to be granted by You to any Person or Persons for exercising any Office or Duty relating to the Administration of Justice or the preservation of the Public Peace or other necessary Offices be granted during Pleasure only.

12th. It being of the greatest importance to Our Service and to the Welfare of Our Plantations that Justice be everywhere speedily and duly administered and that all Disorders Delays and other undue practices in the Administration thereof be effectually prevented We do particularly require you to take especial care that in all Courts established within the said Settlement Justice be impartially administered and that all Judges and other Persons therein concerned do likewise perform the several duties without delay or partiality.

13th. You shall not suffer any Person to execute more Offices than one by Deputy.

14th. And Whereas in pursuance of the Authority vested in Us by an Act passed in the 37th Year of Our Reign Intituled "An Act authorizing His Majesty for a time to be limited to make Regulations respecting the Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope" and since continued by an Act passed in the 49th Year of Our Reign Chapter 79 We were pleased to issue an Order in Council bearing Date the 28th Day of December 1796 for regulating the Commercial Intercourse of the said Settlement with this Kingdom and the other parts of the World a Copy of Our said Order in Council and Translations thereof into the French and Dutch Languages will be herewith delivered to you for the guidance and direction of the Inhabitants of the said Settlement.

15th. You shall not by Color of any Power or Authority hereby or otherwise granted or mentioned to be granted unto you take upon you to give grant or dispose of any Place or Office within the

said Settlement which now is or shall be granted under the Great Seal of this Kingdom or to which any Person is or shall be appointed by Warrant under Our Signet and Sign Manual any further than that you may upon the vacancy of any such Office or Place or upon the suspension of any such Officer by you as aforesaid put in any fit Person to Officiate in the interval till you shall have represented the Matter unto Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State which you are to do by the first opportunity and till the said Office or Place is disposed of by Us Our Heirs or Successors under the Great Seal of this Kingdom or until some Person shall be appointed thereunto under Our Signet and Sign Manual or until Our further directions be given therein.

16th. Our Will and Pleasure is that as soon as possible after your Arrival at the said Settlement you shall endeavor to procure as far as the same shall not have already been done the most accurate information respecting the Lands and every other species of Property belonging to Us at the said Settlement and that you shall also make yourself acquainted with the regulations which had been established for their management and disposal by the Dutch East India Company and having taken the whole into your mature and deliberate consideration You are to transmit to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State a full and explicit Report thereupon together with your Opinion as to the Regulations and Restrictions under which it may be proper to grant or lease out the said Lands or Property with a view to the disposal thereof on reasonable Terms and the establishing a regular and proper mode of proceeding with respect to the passing of Grants thereof in order that We may furnish you with such Instructions as may appear to Us necessary to that object In making your Report on this subject you will particularly specify (as far as your information may enable you to do so) whether any of Our said Lands contain Timber fit for the use of Our Royal Navy whether any are particularly adapted to the growth of Hemp and Flax and also whether any contain Mines of Gold Silver Copper Tin Iron or Lead.

17th. You are to cause a Survey to be made of all the considerable Rivers Landing Places and Harbours within the limits of the said Settlement in so far as the same shall not have already been done and report to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State how far any further Fortifications be necessary for the

Security and advantage of the said Rivers Landing Places and Harbours.

18th. You are to enquire and report to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State whether it may be necessary to erect any new Forts or Posts in any interior parts of the said Settlement either for the protection and security of Our Subjects against the Caffres and Hottentots or other savage Tribes or for establishing and carrying on a Commerce with them and you are to use your best endeavors to conciliate their affections and to induce them to trade with Our Subjects and in order to prevent any improper Conduct towards the said Natives It is Our further Will and Pleasure that you do report to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State the best Accounts you can obtain of the Nature and extent of the Trade that is or may be carried on with them and how the same may in your opinion be extended and improved.

19th. Whereas the Establishment of proper Regulations in matters of ecclesiastical concern is an object of very great importance it will be your indispensable Duty to take care that no arrangements in regard thereto be made but such as may give full satisfaction to Our new Subjects in every point in which they have a right to any indulgence on that head And you are to permit liberty of conscience and the free exercise of Religious Worship to all Persons who inhabit or frequent the said Settlement provided they shall be contented with a quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the same without giving offence or Scandal to Government.

20th. It is Our Will and Pleasure that you do take into your consideration and report to One of Our Principal Secretaries of State for Our information your opinion with respect to the steps which it may be adviseable to take for erecting and maintaining of Schools in the said Settlement where youth may be educated in competent Learning and in knowledge of the Principles of the Christian Religion.

21st. And It is Our further Will and pleasure that no Person shall be allowed to keep a School in the said Settlement without your Licence first had and obtained in granting which you are to pay the most particular attention to the morals and proper qualifications of the Persons applying for the same.

22nd. And it is Our Will and Pleasure that you or in your

absence Our Lieutenant Governor or the Person for the time being having the Government of the said Settlement shall have the power of collating to Benefices granting Licences for Marriages and Probates of Wills commonly called the Office of Ordinary But it is Our express Will and Pleasure and you are hereby directed and required not to grant Deputations for the exercise of the said Powers to any Person or Persons whatsoever in the said Settlement under your Government.

23rd. And whereas it is expedient for Our Service that We should from time to time be informed of the State of the Trade and Fisheries as well as of the population of the said Settlement It is Our Will and pleasure that you do transmit to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State and to Our Committee of Our Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations for their information yearly and every year a full and particular Account of the nature and extent of the several Fisheries carried on by Our Subjects or others the State of the Cultivation particularly specifying the quantity of Grain Wine Hemp and Flax produced and of any other important Branch of Trade which may in your opinion be undertaken and Advantageously carried on by Our Subjects The number of Inhabitants distinguishing them under different heads of Men Women and Children inserting in such Account the number of Persons born christened and buried and any extraordinary influx to or emigration from the said Settlement specifying at the same time the number of Slaves and the number of Our Subjects capable of bearing Arms in the Militia The number and Tonnage of Shipping and Craft employed at the said Settlement together with any other information on these or any other points of the like nature which may be proper to be communicated to Us.

24th. And whereas you will receive from Our Commissioners for executing the Office of High Admiral of Great Britain and of the Plantations a Commission constituting you Vice Admiral of the said Settlement you are required and directed carefully to put in execution the several Powers thereby granted you.

25th. And there having been great irregularities in the manner of granting Commissions in the Plantations to private Ships of War you are to govern yourself whenever there shall be occasion according to the Commissions and Instructions granted in this Kingdom But you are not to grant Letters of Marque or Reprisal

against any Prince or State in Amity with Us to any Person whatsoever without Our Especial Command and you are to oblige the Commanders of all Ships having private Commissions to wear no other Colors than such as are described in Our Proclamation bearing date first of January 1801 declaring what Ensigns or Colors shall be borne at Sea in Merchant Ships belonging to any of Our Subjects of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging.

26th. Whereas Commissions have been granted unto several Persons in Our respective Plantations in other parts of the World for trying Pirates in those parts pursuant to the several Acts for the more effectual suppression of Piracy and a Commission has been prepared empowering you as Our Governor and Commander in Chief of the said Settlement for the time being with others therein mentioned to proceed accordingly with reference to the said Settlement Our Will and Pleasure is that in all Matters relating to Pirates you govern yourself according to the intent of the said Acts.

27th. And Whereas it is absolutely necessary that We should be exactly informed of the present state and Disposition of the said Settlement with a view to any future alteration which We may hereafter think proper to make in the Government of the said Settlement as established by these Our Commission and Instructions you are hereby strictly enjoined to make diligent Enquiry and to examine such Documents and communicate with such Persons as may best enable you to transmit to Us thro' One of Our Principal Secretaries of State the Information hereby required and for the better ordering of your Report on this Subject it will be proper that you should arrange the same under the several Heads following Viz

1st Legislation

2nd Executive Government

3rd Courts of Justice

4th Different Orders of Inhabitants in the said Settlement

5th Revenue

6th Commerce

7th Religion and Religious Establishments

8th Military

9th Estates of Absentees and Aliens