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REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, &c.

Inform the Deputy Registrar of the finding of the Jury. (Clauses 9, 18.)

The undertaker, or other person having charge of a funeral, is to deliver to the Officiating Person or Minister who shall be required to bury, or to perform any religious service for the burial of any dead body, a certificate from the Deputy Registrar that the death has been duly registered. If a dead body be buried without such certificate, the person who buries or otherwise disposes of the body, shall forthwith give notice to the Deputy Registrar. (An excepted case is, when the Coroner, upon holding an inquest, may think fit to give an order in writing that the body shall be buried before registry of the death.) Any person who shall bury, or perform any funeral or religious service for the burial of a dead body, without a certificate from either the Deputy Registrar or the Coroner, and who shall not within one month give notice thereof to the Deputy Registrar, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £10 for every such offence, to be recovered in a summary way. (Clauses 21, 22.)

As respects both Births and Deaths, Clause 10 of the Registration Ordinance provides that the master or keeper of every Gaol, Prison, House of Correction, or Hospital, or Lunatic Asylum, or Public or Charitable Institution, shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed the occupier thereof—and clause 20 provides that every person by whom information of a Birth or Death is given, must sign and attest his name, description, and place of abode in the Register.

MARRIAGES.

According to the Marriage Ordinance, “Officiating Ministers” for the purposes of the same are those Ministers of religion whose names have been sent to the Registrar-General certified under the hands of the Head, or reputed Head, within the colony, of one of the Religious Bodies named in Schedule E. annexed to the Ordinance. These Bodies are, the United Church of England and Ireland; the Church of Scotland; the Free Church of Scotland; all Presbyterian Congregations; the Roman Catholic Church; and the Wesleyan Methodist Society. The several Heads of these Bodies shall, upon the suspension or deprivation of any Minister, forthwith certify such suspension or deprivation to the Registrar-General. (Clauses 39—41.)

The Registration Ordinance provides that every Officiating Minister, or person acting as such, and every Deputy Registrar, immediately after a Marriage solemnized by him, or which may have taken place in his presence, shall register in a book to be kept for that purpose the several particulars relating to such Marriage, according to the form in Schedule C. annexed to the Ordinance. Refusal, or omission without reasonable cause, to make such registration, is punishable by penalty not exceeding £50 for every such offence. (Clauses 23, 33.)

Every Officiating Minister, or Person, or Deputy Registrar, before whom any Marriage is solemnized or hath taken place, shall, in the months of January, April, July, and October, respectively, make and deliver to the Registrar-General a true copy, certified under his hand, of all the entries of Marriages in the Register Books kept by him since the last certificate. If there be no Marriage entered therein since the last certificate, he shall certify the fact under his hand. (Clause 25.) Every person required to make and deliver such a certified copy, or certificate, to the Registrar-General, and who, after being duly required, shall refuse, or, during one calendar month, neglect to do so, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding £10.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that the hours of attendance for the Registration of Births, Deaths, &c., at the Office, in Chapel-street, Auckland, are from eleven, a.m., to two, p.m., daily (Sundays and holidays excepted).

John B. Bennett,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General’s Office,
March 21, 1854.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
28th March, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

William Hulme, Esquire,
to be Postmaster for the Province of Auckland.

This appointment to date from the 1st January last.

By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 28th March, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to direct the publication of the following By-Laws for the Hundred of Onehunga, which have received His Excellency’s assent, and which will come into operation on the 1st May, 1854, according to the provisions of the Crown Lands’ Ordinance.

By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

BY-LAWS OF ONEHUNGA HUNDRED.

1. That all Cattle depasturing on the aforesaid Waste Lands of the Crown shall be branded on some conspicuous part of the body with the Owner’s registered or returned brand, under a penalty of two shillings and sixpence per head for each and every omission.

2. That each and every person who shall depasture Cattle above his proportion on such Waste Lands, shall be assessed, and is, and are, hereby assessed for each and every head of great Cattle, the sum of sixpence per quarter; and for each and every head of Sheep, the sum of one penny per quarter, payable quarterly, in advance; and that Cattle for any portion of time within any quarter, shall be chargeable, and paid for as if running the entire quarter.

3. That the assessment hereby made shall be paid to the Ranger, or any other person duly authorized by the Wardens of the said Hundred, quarterly, in advance.

4. That all persons depasturing Cattle as aforesaid, in the first week of January, April,