Excerpt from History of New South Wales, Vol. 1: From the Records In the course of his letter to Lord Knutsford, of the 28th February, lssq - ih which he discussed the relations between the Home Government and these colonies, with particular reference to the Commission and I nstru etions issued to their Gover nors, - Chief J ustice Higinbotham, of Victoria, remarked I have not seen a copy of an Australian Governor's Commission and Instructions of an earlier date than It is a curious fact that althou h Governor Phillip's Commission and Instructions form the foundation of our political system, they have never been published until the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.