WHEREAS, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and enacted in the ninth and tenth years of our Reign, intituled

"An Act to make further provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands," We did by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster, the twenty-third day of December, One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the Tenth Year of Our Reign, execute certain of the powers in Us by the said Act vested;

And Whereas, in further pursuance of the said Act, and in exercise of the powers thereby in Us vested, and in exercise of all and every other the powers in Us in that behalf vested, We did further issue certain Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, approved in Our Privy Council, being the Instructions accompanying or referred to in such Letters Patent, as relation being had unto the said Letters patent and Instructions will more fully and at large appear; And Whereas it is directed by the thirtieth Section of the thirteenth chapter of the said Instructions, being the chapter entitled "on the settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown," that it shall be competent to the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of any of the Provinces of any of the said New Zealand Islands to demise for any term of years not exceeding twenty-one, any Rural Allotments supposed to contain any valuable minerals, reserving to Us Our Heirs and Successors a Royalty of not less than fifteen per centum on the minerals to be raised upon and from any such lands; And Whereas by the said recited Act it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Us from time to time to amend, and for that purpose to add to, or if necessary to repeal any such Instructions as aforesaid; And Whereas it hath appeared to Us expedient to amend Our said Instructions, so far as they relate to the amount of the Royalty thereby directed to be reserved, to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, on Minerals to be raised upon and from lands so demised as aforesaid.—Now, therefore, by virtue of the power in Us by the said Act vested, We do hereby repeal so much of our said Instructions, but no further, as directs that a Royalty of not less than Fifteen per centum, be reserved for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, on Minerals to be raised from such Rural Allotments, as shall be demised by the Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor of any of the Provinces of the said New Zealand Islands, as aforesaid; and the same is hereby repealed accordingly. And We do hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure that the Royalty so to be reserved, to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, on Minerals to be raised upon and from any rural allotments, hereafter to be demised by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of any of the Provinces of the said New Zealand Islands, as aforesaid, shall be one Fifteenth of the said Minerals.

GEORGE GREY, Esquire,
V. Rg.
Additional Instructions,
New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, July 18th, 1848.

His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Act of the Imperial Parliament, "to amend the Acts for rendering effective the service of the Chelsea and Greenwich Out-Pensioners," for general information.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

ANNO DECIMO & UNDECIMO
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LIV.

An Act to amend the Acts for rendering effective the service of the Chelsea and Greenwich Out-Pensioners. [25th June, 1847.]

WHEREAS the Provisions of the several Acts now in force for the Payment and Enrolment of the Chelsea and Greenwich Out-Pensioners have been found beneficial, and it is expedient to extend them to Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the seas: 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, That the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Payment of Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, shall extend to all Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the Seas, and the Provisions of an Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for rendering more effectual the Services of such Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital as shall be called out to assist in preserving the Public Peace, and of Two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, severally intituled An Act for amending the Act for rendering effective the Services of the Chelsea Out-Pensioners, and extending it to the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital, and An Act for regulating the Payment of the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals, and of this Act, shall apply to all Out-Pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, now residing or who may hereafter reside in any of Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the Seas in which any Officers shall have been or may be appointed pursuant to the said Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, for the Payment and Superintendence of the said Out-Pensioners: Provided always, that only such of the Greenwich Pensioners as may have served in the Royal Marines, shall be liable to serve as enrolled Pensioners; and that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual, to fix the Number of Men to be enrolled in every such Colony and Possession, as a local Force for the Preservation of the Peace in such Colony or Possession, or in any District thereof, and to cause them to be armed.