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At the Court at St James’s- the 23d Febr 1836 -Present, The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
	
Whereas by a certain Act of Parliament pafsed in the ^ 4th and 5th^ 5th year of His Majesty’s reign intituled “An  Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces, and to provide for the Colonization & Government thereof”    it is amongst other things enacted  “that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his Heirs & Successors by any order or orders to be by him or  them made with the advice of His or their Privy Council, to make, ordain and  subject to such conditions and restrictions as to him or them shall seem meet, to authorize & empower any one or more persons resident or being within any one of the said Provinces, to make, ordain

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& establish all such laws, institutions   or ordinances, & to constitute such Courts & appoint such officers, & also such Chaplains & Clergymen of the Established Church of England & Scotland, & to impose & levy such rates, duties & taxes as may be necefsary for the peace, order & good Government of His Majesty’s Subjects & others within the said Province or Provinces, provided that all such orders and all laws and ordinances to be made as aforesaid shall be laid before the King in Council as soon as conveniently may be after the making & enacting thereof respectively   & that the same shall not be contrary    or repugnant to any of the provisions contained in this Act.” And whereas  in the exercise of the authority given to His Majesty by the said Act, His  Majesty by Letters Patent bearing date the 19th Febr 1836 hath erected & established one Province to be called the Province of South Australia, & hath fixed the^& does the limitation to “subjects & others within the   Province ^boundaries of the said Province in manner following that is to say on the North the 26th degree of South Latitude, on the South, the Southern Ocean, on the West the 132nd degree of East Longitude, and on the East the 141st degree of East Longitude including therein all & every the Bays & Gulfs thereof together with the Island called 

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Kangaroo Island &   all & every other Islands adjacent thereto  to the said last mentioned Island or to any part of the main land of the said Province And in the said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that nothing therein contained shall affect or be construed to affect the rights of any Aboriginal Natives of the said Province to the actual occupation or enjoyment in their own persons or in the persons of their descendants of any lands therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such Natives. His Majesty does therefore with the advice of His Privy Council and in the pursuance & exercise of the authority in him vested by the said Act, order, & it is hereby ordered that the Governor for the time being of His Majesty’s said Province of South Australia, or the Officer admi- nistering the Government thereof, the Judge, or Chief Justice, the Colonial Sec. the Advocate General, and the resident Commr- thereof for the time being, so long as they shall be respectively resident     in the said province, or any three of them, of whom of whom the acting Governor to be one, shall have authority & power to make ordain & establish all such laws, institutions or ordinances & to constitute such Courts & appoint such offices, and also such Officers & also such Chaplains or Clergymen of the xxxxxx  Established Church of England & also such Chaplains & Clergymen of the Established Church of Scotland & to impose & levy such rates duties and taxes as may be necefsary or expedient for the peace order & good Government of His Majesty’s subjects & others within the said Province, which power & authority shall neverthelefs be exercised subject to the following conditions & restrictions, That is to say - That all such laws, Institutions & ordinances as aforesaid, shall

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by the said Governor or Officer administering the Government with all convenient xxxxxxxxxxx	
 expedition be transmitted to His Majesty for his approbation or disallowance, through one of his principal Secretaries of State, and that the same or such part thereof if any as shall be disallowed, shall not be in force within the said Province, after His Majesty’s disallowance thereof shall be made known in the said Province and that the same shall not in any wise be contrary or repugnant to any of        the provisions of the said recited Act, & further that no such law institution, or ordinance shall be made unlefs the same shall have been first been proposed  by the said Governor or Officer administering the Government, & further that in making all such Laws institutions and ordinances the said several persons shall & do conform to all such instructions as His Majesty shall from time to time be pleased to ifsue for that purpose. 

		And the Right Honorable  Lord Glenelg one of His Majesty’s  Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necefsary directions herein accordingly -
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