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your Ministers, to whose observations, if they desire to offer any, I shall be ready to give my best attention. I have, Ac, Carnarvon.

APPENDIX. (No. 1.) Clause VI. of Governor's Commission, dated February 23,1872. And We do further authorize and empower you as you shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, when any crime has been committed within Our said colony, to grant a pardon to any accomplice, not being the actual perpetrator of such crime, who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the principal offender; and further to grant to any offender convicted of any crime in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate within Our said colony, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any respite of the execution of the sentence of any such offender, for such period as to you may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures which may become due and payable to Us. (No. 2.) Clause XIV. of Instructions to Governor, dated February 23,1572. And whereas AYe have, by Our said Commission, authorized and empowered you, as you shall sec occasion, in Our name ami on Our behalf to grant to any offender convicted of any crime in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate within Our said colony, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions: Now Wo do hereby direct and enjoin you to call upon the Judge presiding at the trial of any offender who may from time to time be condemned to suffer death by the sentence of any Court within our said colony, to make to you a written report of the case of such offender, and such report of the said Judge shall by you be taken into consideration at the first meeting thereafter which may be conveniently held of Our said Executive Council, where the said Judge may be specially summoned to attend; and you shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender as aforesaid, unless it shall appear to you expedient so to do, upon receiving the advice of Our Executive Council therein; but in all such cases you are to decide either to extend or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to your own deliberate judgment, whether the members of Our said Executive Council concur therein or otherwise ; entering, nevertheless, on the Minutes of the said Council a Minute of your reasons at length, in case you should decide any such question in opposition to the judgment ofihe majority of the members thereof. By authority : G. Didsduky, Government Printer, Wellington. Price 2*.]