The prime minister is, like other ministers, normally sworn in by the governor-general and then presented with the commission ( Letters patent ) of office.

" Whereas their Majesties have been Graciously Pleased to grant Letters patent to John Lofting of London Merchant for a New Invented Engine for Extinguishing Fires which said Engine have found every great encouragement.

In reaction to the New Zealand Company's moves, on 15 June 1839 a new Letters patent was issued to expand the territory of New South Wales to include all of New Zealand.

Letters patent to the first Governor-General Tim Healy had named explicitly Bills that if passed were to be blocked, such as any attempt to abolish the Oath.

Letters patent explicitly create a dignity and specify its course of inheritance ( usually agnatic succession, like the Salic Law ).

Letters patent were duly issued granting the title of " city " to the newly created Metropolitan Borough of Westminster.

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By her divorce on 30 May 1996 she retained the style Her Royal Highness with the style of other divorced peeresses, eliminating the preface " The " before " Duchess of York "; however in August 1996, Letters patent were issued with general rules to regulate royal titles after divorce.

Letters patent had been granted by Henry VIII in the previous year, and building work had started as early as 1512.

* Letters patent, an open letter issued by a government granting an office or other status to someone or some entity

Letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1864 provided that the children and male-line grandchildren of a British Sovereign bear the attribute of Royal Highness by right of birth.

Letters patent were presented to the City, granting property and income to the new foundation the following month.

Letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1900, creating the office of Governor-General of Australia as part of the process of Federation of Australia | Federation

Letters patent ( no singular form exists ) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch or president, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation.

Letters patent can be used for the creation of corporations or government offices, or for the granting of city status or a coats of arms.

Letters patent are a form of open or public proclamation and a vestigial exercise of extra-parliamentary power by a monarch or president.

Letters patent may also be used to grant Royal Assent to legislation.

* Letters patent to Gilbert

The constitution of New Zealand consists of a collection of statutes ( Acts of Parliament ), Treaties, Orders-in-Council, Letters patent, decisions of the Courts and unwritten constitutional conventions.

In 1961 the Borough Council applied to the College of Arms for a formal coat of arms, which was granted by Letters patent.

* Letters patent No. 289, 404, filed April 25, 1883, granted December 4, 1883.

The practice was continued until the Statute of Monopolies was enacted in 1623, ending most monopolies, with certain exceptions, such as patents ; after 1623, grants of Letters patent to publishers became common.

The Feltmakers, or makers of felt hats, were incorporated by Letters patent granted by James I in 1604.

The head of the prison was termed the warden, who was appointed by Letters patent.

The position of prime minister is not outlined in any Canadian constitutional document and is mentioned only in passing in Schedule B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

In 1908 the United Kingdom issued further Letters Patent which established constitutional arrangements for its possessions in the South Atlantic.

One of the forces that drove the spread of the rosary during the 19th century among Roman Catholics was the influence of the Rosary Pope, a title given to Pope Leo XIII ( 1878 – 1903 ) because he issued a record twelve encyclicals and five Apostolic Letters on the rosary, instituted the Catholic custom of daily rosary prayer during the month of October and, in 1883, added the invocation Queen of the most Holy Rosary to the Litany of Loreto.

On 30 November 1917, King George V issued Letters Patent defining who are members of the Royal Family ; the text of the notice from the London Gazette is as follows:

In 1898, Queen Victoria issued Letters Patent that granted the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales the style Royal Highness, and at the age of two, Albert became " His Royal Highness Prince Albert of York ".

An English court, for instance, refused to recognize the Letters of Marque issued by rebellious Ireland under James II, and hanged eight privateer captains as pirates.

As the 1947 Letters Patent issued by King George VI permit the Governor General of Canada to exercise almost all of the monarch's powers in respect of Canada, the viceroy is expected to continue to act as the personal representative of the monarch, and not any regent, even if the monarch is a child or incapacitated.

On 15 June 1839 new Letters Patent were issued to expand the territory of New South Wales to include the entire territory of New Zealand, from latitude 34 ° South to 47 ° 10 ’ South, and from longitude 166 ° 5 ’ East to 179 ° East.

Following this ruling, the FDA has issued numerous Warning Letters to Internet sites that have continued to promote colloidal silver as an antibiotic or for other medical purposes.

The Gentleman's Magazine reported that on 20 July 1739 Vice Admiral Edward Vernon and a squadron of warships departed England for the West Indies, and that on 21 July, " Notice was given by the Lords of the Admiralty, that in pursuance of his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal, Letters of Marque or General Reprisals against the Ships, Goods and Subjects of the King of Spain, were ready to be issued.

She and her sister are the only granddaughters of the Queen to hold the title of Princess of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the style Her Royal Highness: although their cousin, Lady Louise Windsor, is legally a princess, in accordance with Letters Patent issued by King George V, she is not styled as such at the request of the Queen and her parents ; their other female first cousin, Zara Phillips, is the Queen's granddaughter through the female-line, therefore allowing her only the title and style of her father, who has none.

Although George VI's accession allocution had already declared that his first act was to create his elder brother Duke of Windsor, and that he willed his brother to be styled His Royal Highness ( HRH ) the Duke of Windsor, Letters Patent were issued in 1937 to formalise the creation of the Dukedom, and further Letters Patent were issued in May of that year to regulate the Duke's right to the attribute of Royal Highness – although the pretext of the Letters Patent was the confirmation of the style of Royal Highness upon the Duke, its actual purpose was to restrict the title to the Duke alone, so as to exclude any future wife from sharing in it.

In the event of divorce, there was then no mechanism in place to deprive the duchess of the attribute of Royal Highness ; such provision came about only in 1996 before the divorce of the current Duke of York, Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah Ferguson, when Elizabeth II issued Letters Patent providing that divorced wives of Princes of the United Kingdom lose the royal attribute.

* The first of eight volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscover'd at Paris is published ; subsequent volumes are issued through 1694.

Letters of support from the pope arrived in April but by then the rebel barons had organised.

On 29 April 1964 Menzies was presented with the honorary degree of a Doctor of Letters ( DLitt ) by the University of Western Australia.

In April and July he published two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen against the Neapolitan government and responded to his critics in An Examination of the Official Reply of the Neapolitan Government in 1852.

On April 9, 2010 an official report was released in the journal Physical Review Letters.

* April G. Shelford, Transforming the Republic of Letters: Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720 ( Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2007 ).

Systems and Control Letters, Volume 45, Number 4, 5 April 2002, pp. 293 – 302 ( 10 ) ( postscript format available here )

( On the Labor Problem: Lassalle's Speech on the 16th of April at a Leipzig Workers ' Meeting, Together with the Letters of Professor Wuttke and Dr. Lothar Bucher ).

* April 2-Marianna Alcoforado, author of Letters of a Portuguese Nun ( died 1723 )

Therefore, on 24 April 1900, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent creating a second Dukedom of Fife, along with the Earldom of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom with a special remainder: in default of a male heir, these peerages would pass to the daughters of the 1st Duke and then to their male descendants.

" Letters Patent of 24 April 1900 granted a second Dukedom of Fife with a special remainder that allowed the title to pass to the daughters of the first Duke, in default of a son, and then to the male heirs of those daughters.

On April 26, 2008 Harwell was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from The University of Michigan at their Spring Commencement ceremony.

These include: Pat Boone (“ Don ’ t Forbid Me ,” “ April Love ,” “ Love Letters in the Sand ”), Connie Francis (“ Who ’ s Sorry Now ,” “ Among My Souvenirs ,” “ My Happiness ”), Gogi Grant (“ Suddenly There ’ s a Valley ,” “ The Wayward Wind ”), Bobby Darin (“ Dream Lover ,” “ Beyond the Sea ,” “ Mack the Knife ”), and Andy Williams (“ Canadian Sunset ,” “ Butterfly ,” “ Hawaiian Wedding Song ”).

On April 6, 1961, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.

On April 5, 1802, Alexander married Janetta Waddel, the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher, James Waddel ( 1739 – 1805 ), whose eloquence was described in William Wirt's Letters of a British Spy ( 1803 ).

* Booknotes interview with Emily Bernard on Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964, April 22, 2001.

A team of four scientists at the Geological Survey of Western Australia and the Australian National University, led by Arthur J. Mory, announced the discovery in the 15 April 2000 issue of Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Their surviving correspondence includes a letter of condolence of 4 April 1799, from Burney to Chapone, on the death in childbirth of Jane Jeffreyes, née Mulso, the niece to whom the Letters on the Improvement of the Mind had been addressed.

Textual references make clear that sections, at least, of ' Letters from the Earth ' were written shortly before his death in April 1910.

On 17 April 2008 the Cabinet agreed that the name of the highest national award should be The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, that the name of the Society to replace the Order of the Trinity should be The Distinguished Society of Trinidad and Tobago, that the highest national award should be re-designed so as to replace the Cross with a Medal and that the Letters Patent should be amended to give effect to those decisions.

* The Seattle Times Letters: Viretta Park -- Parks Staff Deserves Praise April 4, 1994

* Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Letters To The Editor, Viretta Pak -- Site Was Used As A Play Area April 10, 1996

The Irish Academy of Letters awarded him the Gregory Medal in April 1950.