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Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender 
of the Faith, and so forth,— 
To our trusty and well-beloved— 
The Honorable Thomas Holt, a Member of our Legislative Council of our Colony of New South 
■Wales ; 
The Honorable .Tony Bowie Wilson, and 
James Squibb Farnell, Esquire, a Member of our Legislative Assembly of our said Colony. 
Greeting: 
Know yo that we, reposing great trust and confidence in your ability, zeal, industry, 
discretion, and integrity, do by these presents authorize and appoint you as hereinafter mentioned to 
make a diligent and full inquii’y as to the best mode of cultivating the Oyster, of utilizing, improving, 
mid maintaining the natural Oyster Beds of the Colony, and also, as to the legislation necessary to carry 
out these objects, with a view ot offering such suggestions as you will think desirable for the framing of 
new laws and regulations thereto : Wo do by these presents give and grant to yon, at any meeting or 
meetings to which all of you shall have been summoned, full power and authority to call before you all 
such persona as yon may judge necessary, by whom you maybe better informed of the truth in the 
premises, and to require the production of all such hooks, jiapers, writings, and all other documents as f 
you may deem ex])cdient, and to visit and inspect the same at the offices or places where the same or any 
of tliem inay be deposited, and to inquire of the jircmisea by all lawful ways and means: And our 
furtlicrwill and pleasure is that you, after due examination of tlie premises, do and shall, within the space 
of three months after the date of this onr Commission, or sooner if the same can reasonably be, certify 
to us, in Ibe Olfiee of our Secretary for Lands, under j^our hands and seals, wliat you shall find touching 
the premises: And this Commission shall continue in full force, although the proceedings thereunder 
shall not he continued by adjournment from time to time, and 3^)11 may from time to time, if you shall 
SCO fit, witliout waiting for your full and complete Beport, certify 3 ^our several proceedings into our said 
Office, as the same shall 1)0 respectively perfected : And we hereby command all Government Officers, 
and all other ^mrsons whomsocA'cr within our said Colony, that they may be assistant to you and each of 
yoti in the execution of these presents : And we ai^point 3 'ou, the said Thomas Holt, to bo President of 
this our Commission, and do give yon power at 3 'our discretion to procure such clerical and other 
assistance as you may deem necessary for enabling you to execute this our Commission. 
In testimony wliercof, wo have caused those our Letters to he made Patent, and the Great Seal 
of onr Colony to be hereunto affixed. 
Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir Hercules George Egbert Eobinson, 
Knight Grand Cross of our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and 
Saint George, our Governor and Commander-in-Chiof of onr Colony of Kew 
South Wales, at Government House, Sydney, in our said Colony, this twenty-third 
clay of October, ill the year of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
six, and in the fortieth year of our Ecign. 
(L.S.) HEECULES EOBINSON. 
By His Excellency’s Command, ^ 
TIIOS. GAEEETT. 
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Entered on record by me, in Eegister of Patents, No. 10, pages 414-15-10-17, this twenty-third 
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 
HENET HALLOEAN, 
(For the Colonial Secretary and Eegistrar of Eecords). 
