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4. Every Mayor, Alderman, and Common Councilman of each of the said corporations, and every member of the said Houses of Assembly or of General Assembly, and every other public officer within the said Islands, shall, before entering on the discharge of such his trust or office, take and subscribe the oath of allegiance, which oath, and none other, shall be administered to every such officer by such persons as the Governor-in-Chief shall for that purpose appoint. 5. The said Governor-in-Chief and the said respective Governors and Lieuienant-Governors of the said provinces shall, before entering on the discharge of the duties of their respective offices, take the oaths appointed to be taken by the statutes in that behalf made in the reigns of King George the First and of King George the Third, as amended by the Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the llelief of His Majesty's Eoman Catholic Subjects," according as the former Acts or the last-mentioned Act shall be applicable to their cases respectively.

Chapter X. On the Forms, the Transmissions, and the Disallowance of Laws. 1. All laws to be enacted by the said Provincial Assemblies shall be styled " Ordinances enacted by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of , with the advice and consent of the Assembly thereof;" and all laws to be enacted by the said General Assembly shall be styled " Ordinances enacted by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the General Assembly thereof." 2. No such ordinance of any such Provincial Assembly shall be assented to by any such Governor or Lieutenant-Governor without the previous sanction of the Governor-in-Chief. 3. A transcript of every such ordinance shall be transmitted to us with the least possible delay through one of our principal Secretaries of State, duly authenticated under the public seal of the province, and by the signature of the Governor-in-Chief, or Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor enacting the same. 4. Every such ordinance shall take effect from a time to be therein for that purpose appointed. 5. If any such ordinance be made to take effect from the time of the signification of our pleasure therein, then, unless our confirmation thereof shall have been signified within the colony or province within three years next after the date thereof, every such ordinance shall, from and after the expiration of that time, be considered as being disallowed. 6. If any such ordinance shall be reserved by the Governor-in-Chief, or Governor, or LieutenantGovernor, for the signification of our pleasure, then, in like manner, the same shall be considered to be disallowed, unless our confirmation thereof shall have been signified within the colony or province within three years next after the date thereof. 7. If any such ordinance shall be disallowed by us, either in the manner aforesaid or by a distinct order for that purpose, the said ordinance shall cease to have any operation or effect, either upon and from such lapse of time, or upon and from the signification of such disallowance within the said colony or province; but such disallowance shall not have any retrospective operation, and shall not render invalid or void any act done under the authority or in pursuance of any such ordinance before such lapse of time, or direct signification of the disallowance thereof, as the case may be. 8. All ordinances made for levying money, or for imposing fines, penalties, or forfeitures, shall grant or reserve the same to us for the public uses, as the case may be, of the whole colony, or of the particular province, and the support of the Government thereof, in such manner as by the said ordinance shall be directed; and no such money shall, by any such ordinance, be made issuable, save only by warrants to be granted in pursuance thereof by the Governor-iu-Chief, or by the Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor of the province, as the case may be.

Chapter XL Of the Civil List, 1. The Civil List Eund appropriated for the maintenance of the said respective Governments, in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament, shall be applied and appropriated to such specific purposes as the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any three of them, may from time to time direct and appoint. 2. The due application of the said Civil List Eund shall be accounted for to the said Lords Commissioners, or in such manner as they shall appoint. 3. Copies of all the accounts of the application of the said Civil List Fund shall be laid before the said General Assembly and the said Provincial Assemblies respectively for their information.

Chapter XII. On the Appropriation of the Revenue arising from Laws of the General Assembly. 1. All duties, taxes, rates, tolls, and assessments, imposed or made payable in virtue of any ordinance of the General Assembly of New Zealand, shall be appropriated to such specific purposes as by any such ordinance shall be prescribed in that behalf, and to no other, save as hereinafter is excepted. 2. The first application of any such duties, taxes, rates, tolls, and assessments, shall be towards defraying all the expenses of collecting, receiving, managing, and auditing the same. 3. Subject to the preceding deduction, any surplus which may remain of the proceeds of any such duties, taxes, rates, tolls, and assessments, shall be applied to the specific purpose prescribed in the ordinance imposing the same. 4. Subject to all the preceding deductions, the proceeds of any such duties, taxes, rates, tolls, and assessments, shall be paid over to the respective Treasuries of the said respective provinces, for the public uses thereof, and subject to the appropriation of the respective Assemblies of the said provinces respectively.