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At the Court at Windsor, the 2nd day of
November, 1842.
PRESENT,
The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the ses-
sion of Parliament held in the third
and fourth years of the reign of His late Majes-
ty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act
"to regulate the trade of the British Posses-
sions abroad," and after reciting that by the
Law of Navigation, Foreign ships are permitted
to import into any of the British Possessions
abroad, from the countries to which they belong,
goods, the produce of those countries, and to
export goods from such possessions to be car-
ried to any foreign country whatever; and that
it is expedient that such permission should be
subject to certain conditions, it is enacted, that
the privileges thereby granted to Foreign ships
shall be limited to the ships of those countries
which, having Colonial possessions, shall grant
the like privileges of trading with those posses-
sions to British ships, or which, not having
Colonial possessions, shall place the Commerce
and Navigation of this country, and of its pos-
sessions abroad, upon the footing of the most
favoured nation, unless His Majesty, by His
Order in Council, shall in any case deem it
expedient to grant the whole or any of such
privileges to the ships of any Foreign country,
although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in
all respects, be fulfilled by such Foreign coun-
try;-And it is thereby provided, that no
Foreign country shall be deemed to have fulfilled
the before-mentioned conditions, or to be enti-
tled to the privileges aforesaid, unless and until
His Majesty shall, by some Order or Orders, to
be by Him made, by the advice of His Privy
Council, have declared that such Foreign coun-
try hath so fulfilled the said conditions, and is
entitled to the said privileges.

And, whereas, it hath been made to appear to
the satisfaction of Her Majesty in Council, that
the Government of Portugal hath fulfilled the
conditions herein before-mentioned:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers in Her Majesty in Council, by the
said recited Act of Parliament in that behalf
vested, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of
Her Privy Council, doth declare, and it is here-
by declared accordingly, that the Government
of Portugal hath fulfilled the conditions herein
before mentioned, and that Portuguese ships
may import into any of the British possessions
abroad, from the Portuguese dominions, goods,
the produce of the Portuguese dominions, and
may export goods from such possessions, to be
carried to any foreign country whatever: Pro-
vided always, that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to prevent Portuguese ships
from trading with any of the British possessions
in Europe, to such extent, and in such manner,
as they lawfully may under the Law of Naviga-
tion now in force.

And the Right Honorable the Lords Commis-
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right
Honorable Lord Stanley, one of Her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly, as to
them may respectively appertain.

C. GREVILLE.

CROWN GRANTS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 4th September, 1843.

THE undermentioned Deeds of Grant are
now lying ready for delivery to the gran-
tees, on application to this Office, on or after
Monday, the 11th instant, and on presentation
of the Colonial Treasurer's receipt.

In cases where it is impossible for the grantee
to attend in person to receive his Deed, it will be
delivered to the bearer of an authority according
to the subjoined form, certified by a Magistrate,
or by a Solicitor of the Supreme Court.

The days for delivery of the Deeds, will be
Monday and Tuesday in every week.

Form of Authority above referred to:
I hereby authorize A. B. of to receive
the Deed [for the Town, Suburban, or Country,
as the case may be,] Allotment No. of
Section No. in the District of , pur-
chased by me at the Government Sale of the
day of 184 , for which he will
produce the receipt of the Colonial Treasurer.
(Signature of Grantee.)

WITNESS,
Signature of a Magistrate or of a
Solicitor of the Supreme Court.

Deeds now lying at this Office, ready for
delivery.

TOWN OF AUCKLAND.
192. THOMAS JOHNSON, one rood. Lot No.
10, of Section No. 13.

SUBURBS OF AUCKLAND.
103. SAMPSON KEMPTHORNE, five acres, two
roods, and five perches. Lot No. 17, of Section
No. 4.
104. GEORGE DARLEY LARDNER, four acres.
Suburban Lot No. 1, of Section No. 3.
105. JOHN PROBERT, nineteen acres, one rood,
and six perches. Suburban Farm, Lot No. 119.
106. GEORGE AUGUSTUS BENNETT, nineteen
acres, one rood, and six perches. Suburban
Farm, Lot No. 120.

By His Excellency's command.
(For the Colonial Secretary,)
WILLIAM CONNELL.