seaward boundaries of lot No. 1 of Section No. 31 of the City of Auckland, thence by the stream or water course to the strand in Mechanics Bay; by the seaward boundary of Sections Nos. 12 and 8 of the City of Auckland, and by the seaward terminations of the streets in the said Sections; by the seaward boundary of the Ordnance ground known as Point Britomart by Custom House Street; by the seaward boundary of Sections Nos. 18, 25, 20, and 19 in the City of Auckland and by the seaward terminations of all streets thereon; by Drake Street; by the seaward boundary of a Government Reserve in Freeman’s Bay; thence crossing the mouth of the Western Creek in the said Bay by the seaward boundary of Section No. 8 of the Suburbs of Auckland: to Acheron Point abovenamed. Except out of the said portion of Section No. 2 of the City of Auckland aforesaid hereinbefore described all such subsections allotments or parcels of land as have been heretofore granted or demised or agreed to be granted or demised to any person or persons by virtue of the said Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Auckland Sess. XI., No. 2.

SCHEDULE B.

No. £100
Province of Auckland.
Debenture
Transferable by delivery.

Under the authority of the "Auckland Harbour Debenture Act, 1860"

This Debenture entitles the bearer at the Office of the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland or at the [blank] at the option of the bearer to payment of the sum of One Hundred Pounds sterling on the [blank] day of [blank] One thousand eight hundred and [blank], which with interest thereon at the rate of [blank] pounds per centum per annum is hereby charged and secured upon all the Lands Messuages Tenements and Hereditaments mentioned and described in Schedule A to the said act annexed or as aforesaid, and the Revenue thereof, which interest is payable half-yearly on the [blank] day of [blank] and the [blank] day of [blank] in each year (Dividend Coupons for which are annexed).

Dated the [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred and [blank] and signed the same day in the City of [blank].

N.B.—Any change which it may be desired to make in respect of the place of payment of either principal or interest must be previously registered at the Office of the said Superintendent in Auckland and the substitution of the one place for the other endorsed hereon.

NEW ZEALAND.—PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

(Coupon.)

("Auckland Harbour Debenture Act, 1860.")

Debenture No. £100.

On presentation at the [blank] at [blank] on or after the first day of [blank] 18[blank], the bearer will be entitled to receive [blank] pounds, shillings, being the half year’s interest on that date on Debenture No. for £100.

Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

A. PROCLAMATION

Giving effect to the “Auckland Harbour Debenture Act, 1860.”

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Auckland Harbour Debenture Act, 1860,” it is enacted that the said Act shall have no force or effect until a day to be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation in the “New Zealand Gazette,” after he shall have been requested by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland to bring this said Act into operation.

And whereas on the twenty-ninth and twenty-eighth days of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty, the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province respectively, did request me the said Governor to bring the said Act into operation,

Now therefore I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the provisions of the said recited Act and of such request as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that I fix Friday the fourteenth of December instant, to be the day on which the said recited Act shall come into force and operation.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this fourteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency’s command,

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!