the press of Public Business having much re-
tarded the completion of all the measures neces-
sary to be laid before the Legislative Council,
His Excellency is under the necessity of post-
poning the Meeting of that Body, till Tuesday
the 14th of May, 1844,

J. COATES,
Clerk of Council.

Legislative Council Office,
Auckland 24th April, 1844.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the following heads
of a "Bill for facilitating proceedings by'and
against a certain Joint Stock Company, called
the 'Union Bank of Australia,' and for other
purposes therein mentioned," about to be intro-
duced at the adjourned Session of the Legis-
lative Council, be published for general
information.

J. COATES,
Clerk of Council.

SUBSTANCE OF CLAUSES,

1. Company to sue and be sued, in the name
   of the Local Manager, or one of the Local
   Directors.

2. Right and Liability of Members of the
   Company to sue and be sued by the Company..

3. Member of Company not allowed to set
   off his pecuniary Interest in its Stock, against
   any demand of the Company.

4. Bonds and other securities may be put in
   suit, &c. in the name of the Manager, or one
   of the Directors for the time being, though
   not named in such security.

5. Any Member of Company guilty of Lar-
   ceny, Embezzlement, &c. of its property, liable
   to the same consequence as if he were not such
   Member.

6. Actions and other legal proceedings not
   to abate or be prejudiced by the death, resig-
   nation, or removal of the nominal Plaintiff or
   Defendant.

7. Memorial in the name of Local Manager,
   or Director, to be verified, and recorded in the
   Supreme Court, and no legal proceedings to be
   taken by the Company until that has been done.

8. Plaintiff not to be nonsuited, for want of
   proof of memorial.

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 debt, 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
   Land 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-