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inform the Deputy Registrar of the finding of the
Jury. (Clauses 9, 18.)

The undertaker, or other person having charge
of a funeral, is to deliver to the Officiating Person
or Minister who shall be required to bury, or to
perform any religious service for the burial of any
dead body, a certificate from the Deputy Regis-
trar that the death has been duly registered. If
a dead body be buried without such certificate, the
person who buries or otherwise disposes of the
body, shall forthwith give notice to the Deputy Re-
gistrar, (An excepted case is, when the Coroner,
upon holding an inquest, may think fit to give an
order in writing that the body shall be buried be-
fore registry of the death.) Any person who
shall bury, or perform any funeral or religious
service for the burial of a dead body, without a
certificate from either the Deputy Registrar or the
Coroner, and who shall not within one month
give notice thereof to the Deputy Registrar, shall
forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £10 for
every such offence, to be recovered in a summary
way. (Clauses 21, 22.)

As respects both Births and Deaths, Clause 10
of the Registration Ordinance provides that the
master or keeper of every Gaol, Prison, House of
Correction, or Hospital, or Lunatic Asylum, or
Public or Charitable Institution, shall, for the
purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed the occu-
pier thereof;—and clause 20 provides that every
person by whom information of a Birth or Death
is given, must sign and attest his name, descrip-
tion, and place of abode in the Register.

MARRIAGES.

According to the Marriage Ordinance, "Offici-
ating Ministers" for the purposes of the Ordi-
nance are those Ministers of religion whose names
have been sent to the Registrar-General certified
under the hands of the Head, or reputed Head,
within the colony, of one of the Religious Bodies
named in Schedule E. annexed to the Ordinance.
These Bodies are, the United Church of England
and Ireland; the Church of Scotland;
the Free Church of Scotland; all Presby-
terian Congregations; the Roman Catholic
Church; and the Wesleyan Methodist Society.
The several Heads of these Bodies shall, upon
the suspension or deprivation of any Minister,
forthwith certify such suspension or deprivation
to the Registrar-General. (Clauses 39—41.)

The Registration Ordinance provides that every
Officiating Minister, or person acting as such, and
every Deputy Registrar, immediately after a
Marriage solemnized by him, or which may have
taken place in his presence, shall register in a book
to be kept for that purpose the several particu-
lars relating to such Marriage, according to the
form in Schedule. C. annexed to the Ordinance.
Refusal, or omission without reasonable cause, to
make such registration, is punishable by penalty
not exceeding £50 for every such offence.
(Clauses 23, 33.)

Every Officiating Minister, or Person, or De-
puty Registrar, before whom any Marriage is
solemnized or hath taken place, shall, in the
months of January, April, July, and October, re-
spectively, make and deliver to the Registrar-
General a true copy, certified under his hand, of
all the entries of Marriages in the Register Books
kept by him since the last certificate. If there be
no Marriage entered therein since the last certifi-
cate, he shall certify the fact under his hand.
(Clause 25.) Every person required to make and
deliver such a certified copy, or certificate, to the
Registrar-General, and who, after being duly re-
quired, shall refuse, or, during one calendar
month, neglect to do so, shall be liable for every
such offence to a penalty not exceeding £10.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS,
DEATHS, &c.

NOTICE is hereby given that the hours of
attendance for the Registration of
Births, Deaths, &c., at the Office, in Chapel-
street, Auckland, are from eleven, a.m., to
two, p.m., daily (Sundays and holidays ex-
cepted).

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
March 21, 1854.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
23rd March, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
direct that the name of the undermentioned
gentleman should be added to the Commission
of the Peace for the Province of Wellington.

JOHN TYLSTON WICKSTEED, Esq.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
28th March, 1854.

HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

WILLIAM HULME, Esquire,

to be Postmaster for the Province of Auck-
land.

This appointment to date from the 1st
January last.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government has been pleased to
direct the publication of the following By-
Laws for the Hundred of Onehunga, which
have received His Excellency's assent, and
which will come into operation on the 1st.
May, 1854, according to the provisions of
the Crown Lands' Ordinance.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

BY-LAWS OF ONEHUNGA HUN-
DRED.

1. That all Cattle depasturing on the afore-
   said Waste Lands of the Crown shall be
   branded on some conspicuous part of the
   body with the Owner's registered or returned
   brand, under a penalty of two shillings and
   sixpence per head for each and every omis-
   sion.

2. That each and every person who shall
   depasture Cattle above his proportion on such
   Waste Lands, shall be assessed, and is, and
   are, hereby assessed for each and every head
   of great Cattle, the sum of sixpence per