The New Colony of South Australia

..."NOW KNOW YE that with the advice of Our Privy Council and in pursuance and exercise of the powers in us in that behalf vested by the said recited Act of Parliament WE do hereby erect and establish one Province to be called the Province of SOUTH AUSTRALIA--And we do hereby fix the Boundaries of the said Province in manner following (that is to say) On the North the twenty-sixth degree of South Latitude--On the South the Southern Ocean--On the West the one hundred and thirty-second degree of East Longitude--And on the East the one hundred and forty-first degree of East Longitude including therein all and every the Bays and Gulfs thereof together with the Island called Kangaroo Island and all and every the Islands adjacent to the said last mentioned Island or to that part of the main Land of the said Province PROVIDED ALWAYS that nothing in these our Letters Patent contained shall affect or be construed to affect the rights of any Aboriginal Natives of the said Province to the actual occupation or enjoyment in their own persons or in the persons of their descendants of any lands therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such Natives IN WITNESS whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent WITNESS Ourself at Westminster the Nineteenth day of February in the Sixth Year of our Reign.

"BY WRIT OF PRIVY SEAL
'EDMUNDS'