bling me in that behalf, do hereby proclaim
and declare, that on one first day of April,
1851, the rates of Postage now payable in
the Colony of New Zealand for the transmis-
sion, receipt, or delivery of Letters shall be
abolished and repealed. And on and after
the said first day of April, 1851, a Colonial rate
of Postage shall be charged and paid on all
Letters passing through any Post Office in the
Colony of New Zealand, or transmitted by
post therein, by weight according to the fol-
lowing rate (that is to say) -

On every Letter not exceeding half an ounce
in weight-Two Pence.

On every Letter exceeding half an ounce
in weig' t, then the sum of Two Pence for
every half ounce or fractional part of ha'f an
ounce, according to the weight of such Let-

The postage on all Letters and Papers de-
spatched from New Zealand to places
beyond the seas shall be paid in this Co-
lony.

All Letters and Papers having a Postage
Stamp or Stamps-afixed thereto or enclosed
in covers having a Postage Stamp or Stamps
affixed thereto of such form as may be pre-
scribed by the Local Government, which
shall not have been used before, and which
shall be of the value or amount of the postage
to which such Letters or papers would re-
spectively liable, according to the scale here-
inbefore provided, shall pass by the Post free
of postage.

Letters sent by Post, on being
directed and again forwarded by the Post,
there shall be charged and paid a new and
distinct rate of postage for the re-direction,
in addition to all other rates of postage pay
able thereon, according to the scale and rate
of postage hereinbefore mentioned.

No Letter or Packet, exceeding sixteen
ounces in weight, shall be forwarded by the
Post, except Deeds, Law Proceedings, and
Law Papers, and also except letters to and
from places beyond the seas and Letters to
and from the Governor, Letters on the Public
Service, or to and from any of the Govern-
ment Offices or Departments.

On all Deeds, Law Proceedings, and Law
Papers, on all Printed Votes and Proceed-
ings of the Imperial Parliament and Peri-
odical Publications despatched by the Post
between places in New Zealand, or sent to or
received from the United Kingdom or any of
Her Majesty's Colonies, there shall be
charged and paid the rates of New Zealand
Postage following, that is to say:-If not ex-
ceeding four ounces in weight, a rate of Two
Pence, and for every additional four ounces
in weight above four ounces there shall be
obarged and paid an additional rate of Two
Pence.

Printed Newspapers shall be conveyed by
the Post free of postage, provided they be
sent without a cover or in a cover open at the
sides, and there be no writing thereon, or
upon the cover of the same, except the name

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and address of the person to whom sent, and
that no paper or thing be enclosed in or with
any such paper. And every paper or packet
which shall be contrary in any respect to the
conditions hereby required to be observed,
shall be charged with treble the duty of
postage to which it would have been diable as
a letter.

Printed Prices Current and Commercial
Lists, not exceeding two ounces in weight,
shall be forwarded through the Post under
the same regulations and privileges as News-
papers.

Non-Commissioned Officers, Captains'
Stewards, Seamen, and Soldiers, may send
and receive letters not exceeding half an
ounce in weight by the Post on their own
private concerns only, while they are em-
ployed on Her Majesty's service, at the rate
of One Penny for each letter, and with re-
spect to letters sent or received by any such
privileged persons, the following conditions
shall be observed, that is to say:--The post-
age of each letter (unless sent from parts be-
yond the seas) shall be paid on being put
into the Post Office, and upon such letter shall
subscribed the name of the writer, and his
class or description in the vessel, regiment,
corps, or detachment to which he belongs,
and signed by the officer having at the time
the command of the vessel, or of the regiment,
corps, or detachment to which the privileged
person belongs.

Whenever the letters sent or received by
any such privileged persons shall be sent
from parts beyond the seas, without the said
postage of One Penny being pre-paid, every
such letter shall be charged to the party re-
ceiving the same with a rate Two
and any letters received by the Post under
this resulation, by any such privileged per-
sons, which may have been re-directed, shall
not be charged with any postage for such re-
direction.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at Go-
vernment House at Wellington,
(L. S.) in the Province of New Mun-
ster, in the Islands aforesaid, this
thirty-first day of December,
in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
12th July, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Officer administering
the Government is pleased notify
for general information, that he has received
a despatch from Sir George Grey, one of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, stating