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5. That the owners of all Cattle found trespassing on the Waste Lands of the said Hundred shall pay for every head of such Cattle the sum of 10s. 6d. in addition to the poundage fees.

(Signed) John Maude, Secretary.
" Peter Mal, }
" James Brown, } Wardens,
Assented to.
(Signed) T. Gore Browne,
21st April, 1860.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 18th April, 1860.

THE following Report of the Committee of the Provincial Council, appointed to take evidence and report upon the present state of the Burial Grounds in the neighbourhood of Auckland, and as to the advisability of closing such Burial Grounds upon certain conditions, and adopted by the Council, is published for general information.

John Williamson,
Superintendent.

REPORT

Your Committee appointed to enquire into the state of the "Burial Grounds" in the neighbourhood of Auckland, and as to the advisability of closing them under conditions, have examined witnesses, and Report as follows:—

1. As to the present state of the Burial Grounds, your Committee are of opinion that (except the Burial Ground of the Jews) their management is defective, because, in the first place, no code of regulations has been issued to the Sextons defining the mode of interment, and no proper supervision has been exercised to ensure the general instructions given as to the depth of the graves (from four to six feet) being carried out.

And your Committee are further of opinion that had such instructions been carried out, the mode would still be defective and dangerous to the Public Health, inasmuch as sanatory science has proved that (especially in a wet clay soil) the size of the graves and the intervals between are as of much importance as the depth, and one precaution which the Board of Health insist on has been overlooked,—a sufficient drain round each cemetery to prevent the water mingling with other water which may be used by the people in the neighbourhood, to drain the ground, thereby hastening the progress of decomposition and lessening the miasma arising from the grave.

With such a system as is indicated above properly carried out, your Committee believe that the Burial Grounds might continue to be used to such limited extent as would be required, if the recommendations in the latter paragraph of this Report be carried out.

2nd. As to the advisability of closing the Burial Grounds, unconditionally, a difference of opinion exists, first because the Council has no authority to interfere with the disposal of Lands held on trust by a Grant from the Crown, and as many persons have had ground allotted to them in the various Cemeteries, under such trusts, these persons have at least a constructive right to such Grounds, and cannot be interfered with in the exercise of such rights; and because, many actuated by feelings of piety and affection, desire to be laid in the same Grave with their parents or relations, would regard with feeling of sorrow and dissatisfaction, a law which could only be regarded by them as cruel, and in the present case uncalled for.

But, your Committee are unanimously of opinion, which opinion is sustained by the evidence received, that no dissatisfaction would arise at closing the Cemeteries under the following conditions:

1st. New Grounds to be laid out at a convenient distance from the Town, on an appropriate site.

2nd. The Ground allotted in the various Cemeteries to be still available, subject to such regulations, as may be passed with regard to the mode of Interment.

3rd. The right of Interment to be continued to those who have relatives in the said Grounds.

And in order to ensure the carrying out of the above objects, that an Address be presented to His Honor the Superintendent, praying him to endeavour in his place in the House of Representatives to have a Bill passed to enable him to carry out the same, pending which this Council earnestly invite the attention of the Clergymen of the various denominations to this Report.

James Tohs. Hoyle,
Chairman.
Committee Room,
10th April, 1860.

PROCLAMATION

By John Williamson, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

In pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby proclaim and declare that a certain Wooden Building erected, and the enclosure, situate on Allotment No. 9 of Section No. 9, in the Town of Russell, to be a Public Gaol; and from and after the publication of this Proclamation the said building and enclosure shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol.

Given under my hand, at Auckland, this nineteenth day of April, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

Commissioner of Crown Lands’ Office,
Auckland, 18th April, 1860.

THE following Bye-Law is published for general information.

Daniel Pollen,
Commissioner Crown Lands.

Bye-Law for the Hundred of Onehunga.

All unlicensed Cattle running at large on the Hundreds of Onehunga will be subject to