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Instruments affecting real property," it is enacted
that there shall be established in every County
or District, as the case may be, within the Colo-
ny an office which shall be called the "Register
Office," for registering in manner thereinafter
directed, the Deeds, Wills and Memorials, there-
by authorized to be registered. And whereas it
is thereby further enacted, that the said Ordi-
nance shall come into operation within any
County or District, at such time as His Excel-
lency the Governor, with the advice of the Exe-
cutivc Council, shall by proclamation appoint.
Now therefore I, the Governor, in pursuance
of the power and authority in me vested, by the
said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby, with
the advice of the Executive Council, appoint,
that the said Ordinance shall come into opera-
tion, within the County of Eden, on Monday,
the 15th day of August, next ensuing.

Given under my Hand and Seal, at
Government House, Auckland, this
27th day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two.

W. HOBSON,
GOVERNOR.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

NOTICE.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1842.

IN consequence of the impossibility of com-
municating with Wellington, in time to
enable the Official Functionaries at that settle-
ment to give effect to the Proclamation under
date the 27th May last, His Excellency the
GOVERNOR, with the advice of the Executive
Council, has been pleased to direct that the
period for submitting claims to vote in the elec-
tion of the first Council of the Borough of
Wellington, be extended to the 30th day of
August next, and that the said Proclamation be
promulgated afresh, with the afore-mentioned
alteration.

By his Excellency's command,
(For the Colonial Secretary),
JAMES STUART FREEMAN.

PROCLAMATION,
By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON, Esq.,
Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy,
and Governor and Commander in Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony in New
Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by
"the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council

thereof, Session II, No. 6, entitled "An Ordi-
nance to provide for the establishment and regu-
lation of Municipal Corporations," it is enacted,
that every Settlement within the Colony, having
a population of Two Thousand Souls, shall be a
Borough, and that His Excellency the Governor
shall by Proclamation declare the same to be a
Borough within the meaning of the said Ordi-
nance, and shall at the same time, with the ad-
vice of the Executive Council, define the boun-
daries thereof.

And whereas, it is also enacted, that His Ex-
cellency the Governor shall by such Proclamation
as aforesaid, prescribe a period within which all
claims to the right of voting at the election of
the first Council shall he njade, and shall appoint
a fit person to receive such claims, and to act as:
returning Officer at such election.

And whereas, the Town of Wellington contains
a population of upwards of Two Thousand souls.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance
of the provisions of the said recited Ordinance,
do hereby proclaim the said Town of Wellington
to be a Borough within the meaning of the
said Ordinance. And I do hereby, with the
advice of the Executive Council, define and
declare the boundaries of the said Borough of
Wellington, to comprise all Lands within the
line set forth, in the Surveyor's Plan, as the
outside boundaries of the Public Reserve, in the
plan of the Town of Port Nicholson, approved
by His Excellency the Governor, and so much
of the Harbour as are comprised within a radius
of seven miles, from the Market-place at Palh
Pipitea, described in the said plan.

And I do hereby also declare, that all claims
to the right of voting at the election of the first
Council of the Borough of Wellington, shall be
made before the thirtieth day of August, 1842;
and I do appoint Michael Murphy, Esq., to re-
ceive such claims, and to act as returning
Officer at such election.

Given under my Hand and Seal, this twen-
tieth day of July, 1842.

W. HOBSON,
GOVERNOR,

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Treasury,
21st July, 1842.
NOTICE is hereby given that ISRARL
JOSEPH, of Auckland, has been duly
licensed to exercise the business of an Auc-
tioneer in New Zealand, until the 24th day of
April, 1843.

A. SHEPHERD,
Colonial Treasurer.