For the City of Auckland.
Thomas Beckham, Esquire
Thomas Houghton Bartley, Esquire
Thomas Henderson. Esquire
Robert Schultz, Esquire
James Thomas Boylan, Esquire
James O'Neill, Esquire

For the Suburbs of Auckland.
William Hay, Esquire
William Turner, Esquire
Walter Brodie, Esquire
Frederick Ward Merriman, Esquire

For the Pensioner Settlements.
Joseph Greenwood, Esquire
John Williamson, Esquire
Joseph Brennan, Esquire
William Powditch, Esquire

For the Northern Division.
Patrick Dignan, Esquire
Allan O'Neill, Esquire
Allen Kerr Taylor, Esquire
Joseph May, Esquire

For the Southern Division.
William Goodfellow, Esquire
Robert Graham, Esquire
James Dilworth, Esquire
William Buckland, Esquire

For the Bay of Islands.
Hugh Carleton, Esquire
John Bedggood, Esquire.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

CHARLES BROWN, Esquire,
to be a Captain in the New Plymouth Bat-
talion of the New Zealand Militia.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath, Gover-
nor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Colony of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same. &c., &c., &c.

TO CHARLES BROWN, Esq., Captain of the
New Plymouth Battallion of the New Zealand
Militia.

BY virtue of the Power and Authority in
me vested by an Ordinance of the Gover-
nor and Council of the said Colony, intituled
"An Ordinance for raising a Militia within
the Colony," I do hereby authorize and
direct you to draw out with all convenient
speed, Four hundred of the inhabitants of
New Plymouth, liable, under the said Or-
dinance, to serve in the Militia; the same to
be forthwith embodied, armed, drilled, partly
250
clothed and paid in such manner as shall be
hereafter made known to you, and to do
constant Militar Duty until further orders
from me will be received.

Given under my hand and un-
der the Public Seal of the
said Colony, at New Plymouth,
thietwenty-ninth day of Octo-
ber, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,

By His Excellency's command,
(Signed) W. GISBORNE.
For the Colonial Secretary.

MARRIAGE ACT.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1856.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, Nov. 7th, 1855.

IT being required by the " Marriage Act,
1854," that the names of all Officiating
Ministers, within the meaning of the Act,
shall be sent in to the Registrar-General,
anew, in the month of December in every
year, the following extracts from the Act
aforesaid are re-published for the information
of the Persons concerned :-

Any Minister of Religion, whose name shall
have been sent in to the Registrar-General of Births
Deaths and Marriages, or other Officer to be ap-
pointed by the Governor in that behalf, by the persons
or person within the Colony in whom Ecclesiastical
authority shall, for the time being, be vested, or reputed
to be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies enume-
rated in the schedule D. to this Act annexed, shall,
subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be an
Officiating Minister within the meaning of this Act,
and the name of every such Minister of Religion shall
be certified under hand or hands of the person or
persons aforesaid, and shall be entered and published
as hereinafter provided. Provided always, that any
Minister of Religion not connected with any of the
bodies enumerated in the aforesaid schedule to this Act
annexed, who shall present to any Registrar a certi-
ficate signed by twenty-four householders resident in
the district for which such Registrar shall be appointed,
declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Min-
ister, shall be entitled to have his name inserted in the
list of Officiating Ministers in the meaning of this Act.
Provided always, that such certificate shall be attested
by two Justices of the Peace; and such attested certifi-
cate shall be sent in to the Registrar-General or other
Officer as aforesaid, anew in the month of December in
every year, and no such attested certificate presented
to any Registrar by any Minister as aforesaid, shall
continue in force unless renewed in like manner.

The several Ecclesiastical Authorities as afore-
said of the respective Religious Bodies, shall send in
to the said Registrar-General, or other Officer as afore-
said, a correct list of such Officiating Ministers in the
month of December in every year.

The following are the "Religious Bodies"
enumerated in Schedule D. annexed to the
Act.

The United Church of England and Ireland.
The Church of Scotland
The Roman Catholic Church
The Free Church of Scotland
All Presbyterian Congregations
The Wesleyan Methodist Society
All Congregational Independents
Baptists