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Victoeia, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith : To all to whom these presents shall come, and to our Commissioners named in our Letters Patent bearing date respectively the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and the tenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, appointed to inquire into and report upon the operations of the University of New Zealand, and its relations to the secondary schools of the colony, and the relations of both to the primary schools, —Geeeting : "Wheeeas we did, in the said Letters Patent bearing date the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, command and enjoin you, our said Commissioners, that the evidence taken by you, together with a full and faithful report under your hands and seals upon the matters therein referred to, you should transmit to us on or before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine : And whereas, by indorsement bearing date the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, on our said Letters Patent of the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, wo did extend the time within which you should transmit to us your said report to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty: And whereas it hath been represented to us that, in order to enable you the more properly to fulfil the duties intrusted to you, it would be expedient to further extend the period within which you were required to transmit to us the said report as hereinafter provided : Now, therefore, we do hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, declare and appoint that, notwithstanding anything in our said Commission or in the said indorsement contained, the time at or before which you shall, using all diligence, present to us your report as aforesaid is hereby extended from the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, to the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, until which date, or until such earlier date as you shall be able to conclude your labours, all the rights, privileges, and powers in our said Letters Patent contained shall be and remain in full force and effect: And with the like advice we do hereby confirm the said Letters Patent, except as altered by these presents. In testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and the seal of our said colony to be hereunto affixed. Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight Grand Cross of our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor (1.5.) and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty. By His Excellency's command. Hehctoes Robinson. H. A. Atkinson. Approved in Council. FoESTEE GOEING, Clerk of the Executive Council.