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of Great Britain and Ireland, according 
to an act of parliament passed in the fif- 
ty-first year of the reign of his majesty 
King George the Third, intituled an Act 
[Here insert the title of this Act]; and 
that I will administer, according to law, 
the power and authority vested in me by 
virtue of the said Act; and that I will in 
all things, to the utmost of my power and 
ability, consult and maintain the safety, 
honour, and dignity of his majesty, and 
the welfare of his people. So help me 
God.” 
Which oath shail be taken before his 
majesty’s most honourable privy council ; 
who are hereby required and empowered 
to administer the same, and to enter the 
fame in the books of the said privy coun- 
cil. 
7. The regent to be deemed a person 
holding an oilice in trust; and to take the 
oaths, and subscribe the declaration in, 
and conform to, the statutes relating to 
persons holding places of trust. 
8. The oath and declaration to be made 
before the privy council, and certificate 
of taking the sacrament to be registered. 
9. This clause restrains the regent from 
gtanting peerages, or summoning heirs 
apparent, or appointing io titles in abey- 
ance. 
10. Restrains the regent from granting 
offices in reversion, or for longer period 
than during pleasure ; except those which 
by law are granted for life, or during 
good behaviour, and except pensions to 
chancellor, judges, &c. 
1k.. The Act not t» empower the regent 
to give the royal assent to any Bill to re- 
peal certain Acis, 
12. The authorities given hy this Act to 
cease if the Prince of Wales shall not re- 
side in Great Britain, or marry a papist. 
13. Aud whereas it is expedient that 
the care of his. majesty’s royal person 
should be cummitted to the Queen’s most 
excellent majesty, together with the sole 
direction of such portion of his majesty’s 
household as shall be deemed requisite 
and suitable for the due attendance on his 
majesty’s sacred person, and the mainte~ 
nance of his royal dignity: be it there- 
fore enacted, that the care of his majes- 
.ty’s royal person, and the dispesing, or- 
dering, and managing of all matters and 
things relating thereto, shall be, and the 
same are hereby vested» in the Queen’s 
most excellent majesty, during the con- 
tinuance of his majesty’s indisposition ; 
and that the sole direction of the portion 
_of his majesty’s household, hereinafter 
.-mentioned, shall be and is vested in her 
ynajesty ; and her said majesty shall have 
the full and sole power and authority, by 
any instrument or instruments in writing 
signed and sealed by her majesty, to no- 
iaimate and appoint, in case of any va- 
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cancies arising by resignation or death, 
all the officers and persons belonging to 
his majesty’s household, in the respective 
departments thereof. whose appointment, 
nomination, or removal, have heretofore 
been made by his majesty; except 
and 
the nomination and appointment by her 
majesty, in manner and form aforesaid, 
shall be valid and effectual to all intents 
and purposes as if the same had been 
made or done by his majesty in the ac- 
customed manner. and the several per- 
sons so appointed shall be entitled to the 
like precedence, privileges, salaries, 
wages, profits, and all other emoluments, 
as the several persons now holding and 
enjoying the same offices are respectively 
entitled io: provided always, that her 
said majesty shall not have any power or 
authority to remove any officer in any 
department of his majesty’s household, by 
this Act made subject to the nomination 
or appointment of her majesty, who shall 
have been nominated and appointed by 
his majesty: provided also, that during 
the coulimuance of this Act, no appoint- 
ment shall be made to the office of lord 
chamberlain to -his majesty’s household, 
pow vacant, butthat all the duties of the 
said office shall be performed by the vice- 
chamberlain; and that during the con- 
tinuance of this Act, no person ‘holding 
the office of groom or gentleman of his 
majesty’s bed-chamber, shall be subject 
to be removed; and no vacancy which 
shall arise, by death or resignation of any 
of the grooms or gentlemen of his majes- 
ty’s bed-chamber, shall be supplied or 
filled up, or any appointment or nomina- 
tion made to supply any such vacaney, 
14, And whereas the execution of the 
weighty and arduous trusts, by this Act 
committed to the Queen’s most excellent 
majesty, may require the assistance of the 
council, with whom her majesty may con- 
suit and advise ; be it therefore, enacted, 
that in order to assist and advise ber said 
most exccllent majesty, in the several 
matters aforesaid, there shall be, during 
the continuance of his majesty’s illness, a 
council, consisting of which 
council shall, from time to time, meet as 
her majesty shall be pleased to direct, 
and shall also “have power to meet in 
manner by this Act directed; and if it 
should happen that any of them the said 
should depart this life, or 
by instrument in writing communicated 
to her majesty signify their intention to 
decline to act, then and in such case, it 
shall be Jawful for the Queen’s most ex- 
cellent majesty, from time to time, by an 
instrument in writing, signed and sealed 
by her majesty, revokable at her will amd 
pleasure, (o nominate and appoint some 
one person, being or haying been a mem- 
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