Document:Letters Patent Establishing the Office of Governor-General

Whereas by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal bearing date at Westminster the eighth day of September, 1955, We did constitute, order, and declare that there should be a Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Ibagli, and that the person filling the office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief should be from time to time appointed by Commission under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet:

Now therefore We do by these presents revoke and determine the said Letters Patent, and everything therein contained, and all amendments thereto, and the said Instructions, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder:

And We do declare Our Will and pleasure as follows:

I. We do hereby constitute, order, and declare that there shall be a Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Ibagli, and appointments to the Office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Ibagli shall be made by Commission under Our Great Seal of Ibagli.

II. And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor-General, with the advice of Our Executive Council or of any members thereof or individually, as the case requires, to exercise all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us in respect of Ibagli, and for greater certainty but not so as to restrict the generality of the foregoing to do and execute, in the manner aforesaid, all things that may belong to his office and to the trust We have reposed in him according to the several powers and authorities granted or appointed him and the powers and authorities hereinafter conferred in these Letters Patent and in such Commission as may be issued to him under Our Great Seal of Ibagli and under such laws as are or may hereinafter be in force in Ibagli.

III. And We do hereby authorize and empower Our Governor-General to keep and use Our Great Seal of Ibagli for sealing all things whatsoever that may be passed under Our Great Seal of Ibagli.

IV. And We do further authorize and empower Our Governor-General to constitute and appoint, in Our name and on Our behalf, all such Judges, Commissioners, Justices of the Peace, and other necessary Officers (including diplomatic and consular officers) and Ministers of Ibagli, as may be lawfully constituted or appointed by Us.

V. And We do further authorize and empower Our Governor-General, so far as We lawfully may, upon sufficient cause to him appearing, to remove from his office, or to suspend from the exercise of the same, any person exercising any office within Ibagli, under or by virtue of any Commission or Warrant granted, or which may be granted, by Us in Our name or under Our authority.

VI. And We do further authorize and empower Our Governor-General to exercise all powers lawfully belonging to Us in respect of summoning, proroguing or dissolving the Parliament of Ibagli.

VII. And we do further authorize and empower Our Governor-General to appoint, by commission under the Great Seal of Ibagli, such persons as he may see fit to execute such powers as he may lawfully execute, and that such persons shall be known as Our Commissioners.

VIII. And we do hereby declare Our pleasure to be that, in the event of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence of Our Governor-General out of Ibagli, all and every the powers and authorities herein granted to him shall, until Our further pleasure is signified therein, be vested in Our Chief Justice or, in the case of the death, incapacity, removal, or absence of Our Chief Justice, in the Senior Judge for the time being of our Supreme Court of Ibagli, then residing in Ibagli and not being under incapacity; such Chief Justice or Senior Judge, while the said powers and authorities are vested in him, to be known as Our Administrator.

Provided always, that the said qualified person or Senior Judge shall act in the administration of the Government only if and when Our Chief Justice shall not be present within Ibagli and capable of administering the Government.

Provided further that no such powers or authorities shall vest in such Chief Justice or Senior Judge, until he shall have taken the Oaths appointed to be taken by Our Governor-General.

Provided further that whenever and so often as Our Governor-General shall be temporarily absent from Ibagli, with Our permission, for a period not exceeding one month, then and in every such case Our Governor-General may continue to exercise all and every the powers vested in him as fully as if he were residing within Ibagli.

IX. And We do hereby require and command all Our Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all the other inhabitants of Ibagli, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting unto Our Governor-General, or, in the event of his death, incapacity, or absence, to such person as may, from time to time, under the provisions of these Our Letters Patent administer the Government of Ibagli.

X. And We hereby declare Our Pleasure to be that Our Governor-General for the time being shall, with all due solemnity, cause Our Commission under Our Great Seal of Ibagli, appointing Our Governor-General for the time being, to be read and published in the presence of Our Chief Justice our any other judge of Our Supreme Court of Ibagli, and of members of Our Executive Council, and that Our Governor-General shall take the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance in one of the forms following:

-"I, ................. do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her Heirs and successors, according to law. So Help me God"

-or "I, ................. do affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her Heirs and successors, according to law.",

and likewise he shall take the usual Oath for the due execution of the Office of Our Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Ibagli, and for the due impartial administration of justice; which Oaths Our Chief Justice, or, in his absence, or in the event of his being otherwise incapacitated, any Judge of the Supreme Court of Ibagli shall, and he is hereby required to, tender and administer unto him.

XI. And We do authorize and require Our Governor-General from time to time, by himself or any other person to be authorized by him in that behalf, to administer to all and to every person or persons, as he shall think fit, who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit in Ibagli, that said Oath of Allegiance, together with such other Oath or Oaths as may be from time to time be prescribed by any Laws or Statutes in that behalf made and provided.

XII. And do further authorize and empower Our Governor-General, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, when any crime or offence against the laws of Ibagli has been committed for which the offender may be tried thereunder, to grant a pardon to any accomplice, in such crime or offence, who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders if more than one; and further to grant to any offender convicted of any such crime or offence in any Court, or before any Judge, Justice, or Magistrate, administering the laws of Ibagli, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any respite of the execution of the sentence of any such offender, for such a period as to Our Governor-General may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures, which may become due and payable to Us. And We do hereby direct and enjoin that Our Governor-General shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender without first receiving in capital cases the advice of Our Executive Council and. in other cases, the advice of one, at least, of his Ministers.

XIII. And We do further authorize and empower Our Governor-General to issue Exequaturs, in Our name and on Our behalf, to Consular Officers of foreign countries to whom Commissions of Appointment have been issued by the Heads of States of such countries.

XIV. And whereas great prejudice may happen to Our service and to the security of Ibagli by the absence of Our Governor-General, he shall not quit Ibagli without having first obtained leave from Us for so doing through the Prime Minister of Ibagli.

XV. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or them shall seem fit.

XVI. And We do further direct and enjoin that these Our Letters Patent shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places within Ibagli as Our Governor-General shall think fit.

XVII. And We do further declare that these Our Letters Patent shall take effect on the eighteenth day of March, 2006.

In witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to made Patent, and for the greater testimony and validity thereof, We have caused Our Great Seal of Ibagli to be affixed to these presents, which We have signed with Our Royal Hand.

Given at Melbourne on the sixteenth day of March in the Year Two Thousand and Six and in the Fifty-Fifth Year of Our Reign.

BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMAND, Roger Pollack, Prime Minister of Ibagli