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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1841.

RE
EFERRING to the Notice of the 28th
August, published in the Government
Gazette of the 8th September last, relative to the
Storing of Gunpowder, His Excellency the Go-
VERNOR directs it to be further notified, that the
duties laid down in the Act therein quoted, to be
performed by the Ordnance Storekeeper, will for
the present devolve on the Colonial Storekeeper,
to whom the returns required by the Act must be
forwarded.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th November, 1841.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to order the publication of the
following Documents, together with the Letters
which are subjoined, addressed by his Excellency's
direction to Captain W. C. Symonds, Agent for
the Manukau Land Company, relative to the lo-
cation of the Emigrants who have arrived under
the auspices of the above Company, in the
Brilliant.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

No. 1.
COPY—MINUTE.

Monday, 18th October, 1841.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR laid before
the Council, a letter from Captain W. C.
Symonds, Agent to the Manukau and Waitemata
Company, of date 16th October, 1841, request-
ing permission to locate the Emigrants which
are expected to arrive in the barque Brilliant, on
a portion of the Land claimed by the Manukau
Company, without any acknowledgment of the
Company's right to the Land.

It was ordered, that as all persons are entitled
to the same advantages as the New Zealand
Company, Captain Symonds, as Agent of the
Manukau Company, must furnish a statement of
all monies expended in the purchase of Lands in
New Zealand, from the native chiefs and others;
in the taking up, chartering, and dispatching
ships for the conveyance of Emigrants thither; in
the maintenance of such Emigrants, before and
during the outward voyage; in the purchase and
transmission of stores for the public use of Set-
tlers, collectively, on their arrival; on surveys;
in the erection of buildings, or the erection of
other works, dedicated exclusively to the public
service of the Settlement, and in other heads of
expenditure, or absolute liabilities, unavoidably
required or reasonably incurred for the before-
mentioned purposes, prior to the date of the
agreements in November, 1840.

True Copy,
(Signed) J. COATES,
Clerk of Council.

No. 2.
COPY—MINUTE.

Tuesday, 19th October, 1841.

THE further consideration of the Letter re-
ceived from Captain Symonds, was then
brought before the Council, when—

It was ordered, that the Emigrants expected
in the barque Brilliant, be permitted to squat for
a period not exceeding two years, upon Lands to
be pointed out by the Surveyor-General, on a
portion of Land on the Manukau, and that a Copy
of the Minutes of the 18th and 19th October, be
transmitted to the Colonial Secretary for the in-
formation of Captain Symonds.

True Copy.
(Signed) J. COATES.
Clerk of Council

COPY—No. 3.

Colonial Secretary's Office
Auckland, 28th October, 1841.

SIR,—I have had the honor to receive and lay
before His Excellency the GOVERNOR, your
letter of the 16th instant, as Agent for a Com-
panny, styled the "Manukau Land Company,"
requesting permission to locate the Emigrants
daily expected to arrive in the barque Brilliant,
holding land orders from that body on land within
the limits, claimed by the Company, under the
circumstances of the unsettled state of the Claims
to Land in New Zealand.

In reply, I am instructed to acquaint you, that
His Excellency, with the advice of the Executive
Council, will sanction the Emigrants expected in
the Brilliant, holding permissive occupancy for
a period not exceeding two years, upon Lands to
be pointed out by the Surveyor-General on a
portion of Land on the "Manukau."

I am further directed by His Excellency the
GOVERNOR to request, that, as all persons are en-
titled to the same advantages as the New Zealand
Company, you will furnish a statement of all
monies expended in the purchase of Lands in
New Zealand, from the native chiefs and others;
in the taking up, chartering, and dispatching
ships for the conveyance of Emigrants thither;
in the maintenance of each Emigrant before and
during the outward voyage; in the purchase and
transmission of stores for the public use of the
Settlers, collectively, on their arrival; on surveys;
in the erection of buildings, or the erection of
other works, dedicated exclusively to the public
service of the Settlement, and in other heads of
expenditure, or absolute liabilities, unavoidably
required, or reasonably incurred, for the before-
mentioned purposes, prior to the date of the agree-
ments in November, 1840:

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,

(Signed) WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
Captain W. C. Symonds,
Agent for the Manukau
Land Company,