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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63

[Instructions.]

[Instructions.]

Victoria R.

Instructions to our trusty and well beloved William Hobson, Esq., our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand, &c. Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, the 5th day of December, 1840, in the fourth year of our reign.

61. And it is our further will and pleasure that you do to the utmost of your power promote religion and education among the native inhabitants of our said Colony, or of the lands and islands thereto adjoining; and that you do page iv especially take care to protect them in their persons and in the free enjoyment of their possessions, and that you do by all lawful means prevent and restrain all violence and injustice which may in any manner be practised or attempted against them. * * *