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9. List of Members to be recorded in the
   Supreme Court.
10. Members of the Company to be com-
    petent witnesses.
11. Copy of Deed, attested by Manager, to
    be recorded.
12. Judgment, Decree or Order against the
    Manager or Director to be enforced against the
    assets of the Company, or against the private
    assets of the Shareholders.
13. Company may make contracts and con-
    veyances in the name of the Local Manager.
14. Act to extend to all future Proprietors.
15. Act not to affect the rights of Her
    Majesty.
16. Not to incorporate the Members of the
    Company.
17. Notarial Copy of Deed of Copartnership,
    to be received as legal evidence in any Court of
    Law or Equity.
18. That Copy of Act printed at Government
    Press, in this Colony, be admitted as evidence.
19. Act to be deemed a Public one.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 26th April, 1844.

THE following Bills will be laid before the
Legislative Council, and will be printed
for general information as soon as possible. -

1. A Bill for establishing Courts of Request,
   for the speedy recovery of debts not exceeding
   Twenty Pounds (£20); and for repealing the
   County Court Ordinance.

2. A Bill for the relief of persons imprisoned
   for debts who have become indebted without
   any fraud, or gross or culpable negligence-by
   releasing the persons of such debtors-without
   exonerating their estates from liability.

3. A Bill for constituting the Governor, the
   Bishop, the Attorney General, the Principal
   Commissioner, and the Chief Protector of
   Aborigines, for the time being, a Board of
   Trustees for the management of property, to
   be set apart for the education and benefit of the
   Native Race.

4. A Bill providing for the establishment and
   regulation of Municipal Corporations; enabling
   the Governor to declare any settlement of which
   the population shall exceed two thousand souls,
   to be a borough: and declaring the trust of and
   land that may be conveyed to the Mayor, Alder-
   men, and Burgesses of any Borough for the
   benefit thereof.

5. A Bill to amend the Customs Ordinance: -
   the principal alterations being that the duty on
   all Spirits should be lowered to two shillings per
   gallon; that the Duty on unmanufactured
   Tobacco should be lowered to three-pence per
   pound; that on manufactured Tobacco (ex-
   cept cigars and snuff,) to four-pence per pound:
   and on Cigars and Snuff to one shilling per
   pound: also that all differential duties in favour
   of any particular British Colonies should be
   abolished.

6. A Bill for repealing the "Ordinance pro-
   hibiting the Distillation of Spirits within the
   Colony of New Zealand."

7. A Bill for amending the "Cattle Trespass
   Ordinance," by providing for the summary re-
   covery of compensation for damages done by
   animals trespassing on land, whether fenced or
   not fenced.

8. A Bill for amending the "Harbour Regu-
   lations Ordinance," by providing that all regula-
   tions made by the Governor in Council, under
   the authority of such Ordinance be submitted to
   Her Majesty for confirmation.

9. A Bill for amending the "Conveyancing
   Ordinance," by providing that Deeds and Wills
   executed out of the Colony, may be received in
   evidence, provided they be verified by affirma-
   tion in accordance with the provisions of Wm.
   IV, Chap 62.

10. A Bill for amending the New Zealand
    Banking Company's Ordinance, by making it
    permissive instead of obligatory to carry on
    legal proceedings against the said company in
    the name of the Manager.

11. A Bill for the Naturalization of certain
    Germans.

12. A Bill for the admission of unsworn
    testimony in certain cases.

13. A Bill authorising the Supreme Court to
    hear appeals from the decision of Justices of
    the Peace; in certain cases.

14. A Bill for declaring that in particular
    cases, (inter se), the Aboriginal Natives of New
    Zealand, shall not be amenable to the Law of
    England.

15. A Bill for amending an "Ordinance for
    licensing Auctioneers," by repealing the duties
    on goods sold by Auction, and imposing a
    higher payment for annual licenses.

16. A Bill for imposing an annual tax of
    two-pence per acre on land, cultivated or
    wild, of which grants have been made by the
    Crown, or to which a valid claim has been
    proved, and for which a crown grant has been
    ordered to be prepared, and is ready for issue
    on demand.

Also on all houses containing more than three
rooms, at the rate of one pound for each room
above that number, excepting only Government
Offices.

Also on dogs not belonging to the Aboriginal
Natives, at the rate of ten shillings for each
dog, kept during any part of the year, excepting
only one dog for any one house.

Also on animals imported into the Colony, at
the rate of thirty shillings for each horse,
ten shillings for each head of neat cattle, five
shillings for each mule, two shillings for each ass
and one shilling for each sheep.

And for authorising and requiring the Police
Magistrates, and Collectors of Customs, to levy,