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collect, and pay over to the Colonial Treasury,
the several taxes and duties above mentioned.
17. A Bill for appropriating the Revenue of
the Colony to certain specific purposes.
By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 30th April, 1844.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication, for
general information, of the following Despatch
from Lord Stanley, together with an Order made
by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in Council,-
By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Downing-street,
1st September, 1843.
SIR:-1 have the honor to transmit to you
herewith an Order made by Her Majesty in
Council on the 23rd ult., exempting from Duty
specimens illustrative of Natural History on
their importation into Her Majesty's Colonial
Possessions.
I have to desire that you will give publicity to
this Order in the Colony under your Govern-
ment, and will take the necessary steps to insure
its being carried into effect.
I have the Honor to be,
Sir,
Your most Obedient
Governor FITZROY,
&c., &c., &c.
Humble Servant,
(Signed) STANLEY.

L. S. AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE.
The 23rd day of August, 1843.
PRESENT THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT
MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of
Parliament held in the 5th and 6th Years of the
Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act
to amend the "Laws for the Regulations of the
Trade of the British Possessions abroad," it was
enacted that there should be raised, levied, col-
lected and paid to Her Majesty the several
Duties of Customs, as the same are respectively
set forth in figures in the Table of Duties therein-
after contained, upon Goods, Wares, and Mer-
chandize not being the growth, production, or
manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any
of the British Possessions in America, or of the
Mauritius, or of any of the British Possessions
Charter, or the produce of any of the British
Fisheries imported or brought into any of the
British Possessions in America, or the Mauritius
by Sea or Inland Carriage or Navigation; and
whereas divers articles are enumerated in the
said Table of Duties, and certain duties therein
mentioned are therein made payable upon such
Articles respectively; and the duty of four per
centum ad valorem is made payable on Articles
not enumerated, except such as are comprized
or referred to in the Table of Exemptions sub-
joined to the said Table of Duties. And where-
as it is also enacted by the said Act now in re-
cital that it shall and may be lawful for Her
Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy
Council by any order or orders in Council to be
issued from time to time, to direct that any
Article described in such Order, being an Article
chargeable under this Act as an unenumerated
Article with a Duty of 4 per centum ad valorem,
shall be added to the list of Exemptions therein-
before set forth, and shall be free from such
Duty, and from and after the time mentioned in
such Orders for the commencement of such Ex-
emptions, not being less than six months from
the date thereof, such Exemption shall take
effect, and such Article shall thenceforth, while
such Order shall continue in force, be free from
such Duty accordingly; and any such Order
may at any time be suspended or revoked by
Her Majesty, with the advice of Her Privy
Council, by any other Order in Council.
And whereas specimens illustrative of Natural
History, are not enumerated in the said Table
of Duties, neither are they comprized or referred
to in the said Table of Exemptions; and whereas
Her Majesty, with the advice of Her Privy
Council, hath thought fit, for the encourage-
ment of the study of Natural History, that speci-
mens illustrative of Natural History should be
exempted from the Duties imposed by the said
recited Act,
Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the
said Act of Parliament, and in exercise of the
powers thereby in Her Majesty in Council in
that behalf vested, Her Majesty by and with the
advice of Her Privy Council, doth Order, and
it is hereby Ordered accordingly, that speci-
mens illustrative of Natural History, being
Articles chargeable under the said Act with a
Duty of 4 per cent ad valorem, shall be, and
the same are hereby added to the list of Exemp-
tions in the said recited Act set forth; and that
from and after the 1st day of February, 1844,
the said Articles shall be free from such Duty
as fully and effectually as if such Articles had
been inserted and enumerated in the said Table
at the time of passing the said Act.
And the Right Honorable the Lords Commis-
sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the
Right Honorable Lord Stanley, are to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly.
(Signed) C. GREVILLE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 30th April, 1844.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication, for
general information, of the following Communi-
cation from Lord Stanley.-
By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.