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first year of Her Majesty, chapt. 53, intituled "An Act to amend the Act for granting a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is enacted that the said Act now in recital should be proclaimed in New Zealand by the Governor or person administering the Government thereof within six weeks after a copy of such Act shall have been received by such Governor, and should take effect in New Zealand from the day of such Proclamation except as in the said Act is provided.

And whereas a copy of the said recited Act was received by me on the third day of this present month of December.

Now therefore in pursuance of the requirements in this behalf of the said recited Act, I, the Governor, do hereby proclaim, publish, and make known the said recited Act as next hereunder set forth, and I do declare that the same Act will accordingly take effect in New Zealand from the day of the date hereof.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
God save the Queen.

Act referred to in the above Proclamation.

ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ. CHAP. LIII.
An Act to amend the Act for granting a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand. [August 17, 1857.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that an Act passed in the Session holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-two, to grant a representative Constitution to the colony of New Zealand, should be amended by repealing certain clauses thereof, whereby certain charges were imposed on the territorial revenue of the said Colony, for which charges other provision has been or is intended to be made, and making further and

other provision for enabling the General Assembly of New Zealand to alter the enactments thereof: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Sections 67, 68, 69 and 74, and part of section 62, of recited Act repealed.

I. Sections sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, and seventy-four of the said act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of her Majesty, and so much of Section sixty-two of the said Act as authorises the Governor to pay out of the Revenue arising from the disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown, sums on account of the purchase of land from aboriginal natives, or the release or extinguishment of their rights, and sums payable to the New Zealand Company, are hereby repealed.

Power to General Assembly of New Zealand to vary the provisions of the recited Act, with the exceptions herein named.

II. It shall be lawful for the said General Assembly of New Zealand by any act or acts from time to time to alter, suspend or repeal, all or any of the provisions of the said act, except such as are hereinafter specified; namely,

So much of the said act as repeals former Acts, Letters Patent, Instructions and Orders in Council: The provisions contained in Sections three, eighteen, (save the exception therein contained,) twenty-five, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-two, forty-four, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-four, (save so much as charges the civil list on the Revenues arising from the disposal of Waste Lands of the Crown), sixty-five, seventy-one, seventy-three, and eighty of the said act:

But no such Act of the General Assembly as aforesaid shall shall alter, suspend, or repeal any of the provisions contained in section nineteen of the said Act shall have any force or effect unless the same shall have been reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon, and until