MARRIAGE ACT.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1855.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested Ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in Schedule D. annexed to the "Marriage Act, 1854," viz.:

The United Church of England and Ireland.
The Church of Scotland.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Free Church of Scotland.
All Presbyterian Congregations.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Society.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

Also the attention of Ministers of Religion not connected with any of these Bodies, who may desire to be placed on the list of "Officiating Ministers" within the meaning of this Act, is specially called to the following extracts from the Act aforesaid:—

Any Minister of Religion whose name shall have been sent in to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or other Officer to be appointed by the Governor in that behalf, by the persons or person within the Colony in whom Ecclesiastical authority shall, for the time being, be vested, or reputed to be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies, enumerated in the Schedule D. to this Act annexed, shall, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act, and the name of every such Minister of Religion shall be certified under the hand or hands of the person or persons aforesaid, and shall be entered and published as hereinafter provided:

Provided always, that any Minister of Religion not connected with any of the Bodies enumerated in the aforesaid Schedule to this Act annexed, who shall present to any Registrar a certificate signed by twenty-four householders resident in the district for which such Registrar shall be appointed, declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to have his name inserted in the list of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of this Act: Provided always, that such certificate shall be attested by two Justices of the Peace; and such attested certificate shall be sent in to the Registrar-General or other Officer as aforesaid anew in the month of December in every year, and no such attested certificate presented to any Registrar by any Minister as aforesaid, shall continue in force unless renewed in like manner.

The several Ecclesiastical Authorities as aforesaid of the respective Religious Bodies, shall send in to the said Registrar-General, or other Officer as aforesaid, a correct list of such Officiating Ministers in the month of December in every year.

It will therefore be necessary that the names of all Officiating Ministers, duly certified, be sent in to me before the termination of the month of December next ensuing, in order that all such names may be entered in the list, a copy of which will be published in January, 1855, in the New Zealand Government Gazette.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.
Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, October 31st, 1854.

IMPOUNDED

at the Public Pound, Hob-
son’s Bridge, Hundred of Auckland,
Newmarket, by Henry Neale for damaging his fence in Grey Street, Auckland.

One Black and White SHE-GOAT.

If not claimed, to be sold at the Pound on Noon on the 22nd Dec. inst., agreeably to the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance. Vic. 11, Sec. 8, No. 6.

Joseph Osborne, Poundkeeper.
Public Pound, 23rd November, 1854.

COLONIAL BANK OF ISSUE.

Total Amount of Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Auckland, on the 11th day of Nov., 1854 being the close of the preceding four weeks:—

£5 and upwards ... £5,575
Under £5 ... 3,863

Total ... £9,438

Total Amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day:—

Gold ... £3,973
Silver ... 21

Total ... £3,994

I, Alexander Shepherd, the Colonial Treasurer, do hereby certify that the above is a true account, as required by the Ordinance No. 16, Session 8.

A. SHEPHERD,
Colonial Treasurer.

Dated at Auckland this 13th day of Nov., 1854.

The sum of five thousand pounds (£5000) sterling has been invested under the Warrant of His Excellency the Governor, in the Public Funds in England, through the Commissariat Department, by arrangements made through the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury.

A. SHEPHERD.

Amount of the Notes in circulation at the Office of the Colonial Bank of Issue, at Wellington, on the 11th day of November, 1854.

£5 and upwards ... £14,250
Under £5 ... 20,004

Total ... £34,254

Total amount of Coin held by the same office on the same day, viz.:

Gold ... £13,703
Silver ... 551

Total ... £14,254