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 AND INSTRUCTIONS, 527 whom it may concern, to obey you as our Lieutenant-Governor 1790 thereof ; and You are to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions from time to time as you shall receive from US, our Governor of our Territory of New South Wales and the Islands adjacent, for the time being, or any other your Superior Officer, a military according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the «>™™»"**- Trust we hereby repose in you. Given at our Court at St. James', the twenty-eighth day of January, 1790, in the thirtieth year of our reign. By his Majesty's command, Lieutenant Philip Gidley King, W. W. Grenville. Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean. PHILLIPS INSTRUCTIONS TO KING. Instructions for Philip Gidley King, Esq., Superintendent and Commandant of the Settlement of Norfolk Island. With these instructions you will receive my Commission appointing you to superintend and command the settlement to be formed on Supeiinten- Norfolk Island, and to obey all such orders as you shall from time coL.^ to time receive from me, his Majesty's Govemor-in-Chief and »n»ndant. Captain-General of the Territory of New South Wales and its de- pendencies, or from the Lieutenant-Governor in my absence. You are therefore to proceed in his Majesty's armed tender Supply, whose commander has my orders to receive you, with the men and women, stores and provisions necessary for forming the commissioD intended settlement, and on your landing on Norfolk Island take ^Jjciy upon you the execution of the trust reposed in you, causing my read. Commission appointing you Supenntendant over the said settlement to be publicly read. And after having taken the necessary measures for securing yourself and people, and for the preservation of the stores and provisions, you are immediately to proceed to the cultivation of the flax plant, which you will find growing spontaneously on the fiox, island, as likewise to the cultivation of cotton, corn, and other ^J^^ grains with the seeds of which you are furnished and which you are to regard as public stock, and of the increase of which you are to send me an account, that I may know what quantity may be drawn from the island for the public use, or what supplies may be necessary to send hereafter. It is left to your disci-etion to use such part of the com that is raised, as may be found necessary ; but this you are to do with the greatest economy. And as the com, flax, cotton, and other grains are the property of the Crown and are as such Digitized by Google