8. Subject to the provisions of Article 13 of these Our
Letters the existing Letters Patent are hereby revoked, but
without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder.

4. There shall be a Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- in and over the Colony, and: appointments to the said Office
shall be made by Commission under Our Sign Manual and
Signet. ‘ \

5. We do hereby authorize, empower and command the
Governor to do all things belonging to his Office in accordance

with these Our Letters, such Commission as aforesaid, and -

such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him
by Us under Our Sign Manual and Signet or through a Secre-
tary of State, and in accordance with such Orders in Our

Privy Council and other laws as may from time to time be in

force in the Colony.

6. Every person appointed to fill the office of Governor
shall, with all due solemnity, before entering on any of the duties
of his Office, cause the Commission appointing him -to be
Governor to be read and published at the seat of Government,
in the presence of the Chief Justice, or of some other Judge
of the Supreme Court of the Windward Islands and Leeward
Islands, if able to attend, and of such Members of the Execu-
tive Council of the Colony as can conveniently attend: which
being’ done, he shall thereupon take before them the Oath of
Allegiance and the Oath for the due execution of the Office of
Governor, in the forms set out in the Third Schedule to these
Our Letters, which Oaths the said Chief Justice or Judge or,
if they be unavoidably absent, the senior Member of the said
Executive Council then present, is hereby required to administer.

7-—(1) Whenever the Office of Governor is vacant, or
the Governor is absent from the Colony, or is from any cause
prevented from, or incapable of performing the functions of his
Office, the Government of the Colony shall, during Our
pleasure, be administered by—

(a) such person as We may appoint under Our Sign
Manual and Signet, and if there be more than one person
so appointed, in the order stated in the Instrument or
Instruments of Appointment; or

(6) if there be no person in the Colony so appointed
and capable of discharging. the duties of administration,
such person as We may designate by Instructions through
a Secretary of State;-or ,

Revoes
tion of
existing
Letters
Patent.

Office of
Governor
consti-
tnted.

Governor's —
authority,

Publicu-
tion of
Governor's
Commis-
sion and
and taking
of Onthe,

Succession
to the
Govern-
ment,