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and diligence, as ye shall think fit, to be and act as your Clerk or Secretary, for the purpose of aiding you in the execution of these Presents; and also to nominate and appoint in the manner such several Persons of ability, care, and diligence, as ye may think fit, to be Sub-Commissioners, to be employed under your direction and control in the premises; and more especially to methodize, regulate, and digest the Records, Rolls, Instruments, Books, and Papers, in any of Our Public Offices and Repositories, and to cause such of the said Records, Rolls, Instruments, Books, and Papers as are decayed and in danger of being destroyed, to be bound and secured; and to make exact Calendars and Indexes thereof; and to superintend the printing of such Calendars and Indexes, and original Records and Papers as ye shall cause to be printed: which said Clerk or Secretary, and Sub-Commissioners, and every of them, shall and may be removed by you or any Three or more of you, (whereof the said First Commissioner of Our Treasury, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, The Speaker of the House of Commons, The Master of the Rolls, or Our Advocate for Scotland, severally and respectively for the time being, to be one), from time to time at your will and pleasure; full power and authority being hereby given to you, to appoint others in their places respectively.

And We further will and command, and by these Presents ordain, That ye, or any Three or more of you, (whereof the said First Commissioner of Our Treasury, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, The Speaker of the House of Commons, The Master of the Rolls, or Our Advocate for Scotland, severally and respectively for the time being, to be one,) shall from Time to Time certify under your Hands and Seals, unto Our Lord High Treasurer, or unto the Commissioners of Our Treasury for the time being, what shall be a fit and suitable recompence to the above-mentioned Clerk or Secretary, and Sub-Commissioners respectively, for their pains and services in the execution of the duties hereby required to be by them performed which said recompence it is Our Will and Pleasure shall thereupon be paid to them respectively and accordingly.

And Our Further Will and Pleasure is, that ye, or any Three or more of you, (whereof the said First Commissioner of Our Treasury, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, The Speaker of the House of Commons, The Master of the Rolls, or Our Advocate for Scotland, severally and respectively for the time being, to be one,) do and shall, on or before the Twenty-fifth day of March in the year of our Lord 1807, and so from year to year, on or before the Twenty-fifth day of March in each year respectively, so long as this Commission shall continue in force, certify unto Us in our Privy Council, under your Hands and Seals respectively, all and every of the several Proceedings of yourselves and of the said Sub-Commissioners, had by virtue of these Presents, together with such other Matters (if any) as may be deserving of Our Royal Consideration touching or concerning the premises; and what further Measures (if any) ye shall think fit to propose thereupon. And Lastly, We do by these Presents ordain, That this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that ye Our said Commissioners or any Three or more of you, (whereof the said First Commissioner of Our Treasury, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, The Speaker of the House of Commons, The Master of the Rolls, or Our Advocate for Scotland, severally and respectively for the Time being, to be one,) shall and may from time to time, and at any place or places, proceed in the Execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by Adjournment.

Given at Our Court at Saint James’s, the twenty-third day of May 1806, in the Forty-sixth Year of Our Reign.

By His MAJESTY’s Command.

(Signed)Spencer.