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offence, Three Pounds (£3) for the second
offence, and Five Pounds (£5) for the third
and every further offence.
11. That any persons setting fire to, or
causing any part of the said waste lands to be
set on fire without the consent, in writing, of
the Wardens, shall forfeit and pay for the first
offence the sum of Twenty Shillings (20s.),
and for each and every further offence the sum
of Five Pounds (£5).
12. That any person running disease cat-
tle upon the said waste lands, shall forfeit and
pay for each and every offence the sum of
Five Pounds, (£5), and any such diseased
cattle shall be immediately impounded,
13. That any person rendering the water
upon, or flowing through the said waste lands,
impure, by washing linen or clothes of any
kind therein, or doing any other act whereby
a deleterious or offensive matter be thrown into
any water course or pond. shall forfeit and pay
a sum of not less than Forty Shillings (40s.),
nor more than Five Pounds (£5) for each and
every offence.
14. That any person convicted of a third
offence against the said Ordinance, or any Bye
Law made in pursuance thereof, be reported
by the Wardens to the Commissioner of Crown
Lands, with a recommendation that no future
license be granted to such person.
15. That any person driving licensed cattle
from off the waste lands of the Hundred, in
order to facilitate the driving of other cattle
from the run, or otherwise, shall be fined the
sum of One Pound (£1) for each and every
head so driven off, unless notice be left in
writing at the Wardens office, within twelve
hours from the time of such driving, stating at
what place such cattle had been separated or
left, for the guidance of their owners.
16. All persons owning or depasturing cat-
tle in the Auckland Hundred, shall leave at
the office of the Wardens for the Hundred, an
impression of his, her, or their brand on wood,
to be kept in that office, for the inspection and
guidance of the Inspector of Slaughter houses,
under a penalty of One Pound (£1.)
The Wardens deem it a duty to call es-
pecial attention to the 34th, 37th, and 38th
sections of the Crown Lands Ordinance.
WILLIAM EDGECOMBE,
WILLIAM J. YOUNG,
DAVID G. SMALE,
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Wardens.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
28th November, 1854.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government, directs the publication
for general information of the following
Report of the Committee of the House of
Representatives on Vaccination.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
29th December, 1854.
HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
appoint the following Clergymen and Gen-
tlemen to form a Central Board of Vaccina-
tion of the Natives for the purpose of carrying
out the recommendation contained in the
Report of the Committee of the House of
Representatives on Vaccination :-
The Lord Bishop of New Zealand
The Right Reverend Dr. Pompallier (R.
C. Bishop)
The Rev. G. A. Kissling
The Rev. Thos. Buddle
Mr. Commissioner McLean
Major Nugent, Native Secretary
Dr. Thomson, 58th Regt.
Dr. Davies, Provincial Surgeon
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON VACCI-
NATION.

Your Committee appointed the 21st June,
1854, to consider. "the best means of intro-
ducing the most complete system of Vacci-
nation amongst the Natives," having taken
evidence thereon and maturely considered the
same, have agreed to the following report.
They think that no time ought to be lost in
protecting the Aborigines of the Colony as
widely and extensively as possible, from the
dangers of small pox by means of vaccination.
With regard to the efficacy of vaccination
as a protective agent, your Committee do not
deem it necessary to adduce evidence. They
will merely state what is admitted by the best
Medical Authorities to be a fact; that amongst
Europeans before the practice of inoculation,
the deaths from the disease were in the ratio
of one-half of those attacked. After the
practice of inoculation had been introduced,
the proportion of deaths was not more than
one in five hundred, and since vaccination has
become general in Europe the disease of small
pox, one of the most loathsome and fatal
scourges of the human species has been robbed
of nearly all its terrors.
All concurrent testimony goes to prove,
that in the colored races of men, small pox is
more virulent and fatal than in the fair
skinned races, while among savages, their
personal habits, mode of life, and ignorance of
proper treatment combine to disseminate the
disease with frightful rapidity, and to give to
it a most malignant and exterminating cha-
racter.
The disappearance of the Aboriginal in-
habitants of the North American continent,
is mainly to be ascribed to the ravages of
small pox. It is on record (vide Catlin's
North American Indians,) that out of a tribe
of 2,000 attacked by small pox, in the year
1837, in a few months only 35 survived.
Your Committee cannot doubt, that results