PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel ROBERT HENRY
WYNYARD, Companion of
the most Honourable Order
of the Bath, Officer admin-
istering the Government,
and Commander-in-Chief
in and over the Islands of
New Zealand, &c. &c.

WHEREAS by an Act hearing date the
fourteenth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, passed
by the Governor of the New Zealand Islands,
by and with the consent of the General As-
sembly, intituled "An Act for the Naturaliza-
tion of certain persons in the Colony of
New Zealand." It is enacted, inter alia, that
all and singular the persons who shall be
declared to come within the operation of such
Act, by any Proclamation to be issued in that
behalf by his Excellency the Governor, shall
be deemed and taken until the next session
of the General Assembly to be natural born
subjects of Her Majesty within the Islands of
New Zealand.

Now therefore, I the Officer Administering
the Government of the Islands of New Zea-
land, in pursuance of the power and authority
in me vested by the said in part recited Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the
persons whose names are underwritten shall be
deemed and taken to be natural born
subjects of Her Majesty from the date set
opposite their names, until the next Session of
the General Assembly, as fully to all intents
and purposes as if their names had been in-
serted in the Schedule annexed to the said
Act.

ADOLPHE DE MEURON.
Settler, residing in Auckland, a native of
Switzerland, from 16th March, 1855.

CHARLES PETSCHLER,
Merchant, residing in Auckland, a native of
Germany, from 20th March, 1855.

ADOLPHE DAVID,
Settler, residing in Auckland, a native of
Belgium, from 22nd March, 1855.

This Proclamation shall take effect from
and after the 16th March, 1855.

Given under my hand and issued
under the public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Islands afore-
said this twenty-first day of April,
in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five.

R. H. WYNYARD,
The Officer administering the Government
of the Islands of New Zealand.

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
27th April, 1855.

SOME misapprehension existing with regard
to the office of Registrar General of Births
Deaths, and Marriages for New Zealand, His
Excellency the Officer Administering the Go-
vernment directs it to be notified that, under
the authority of the Registration Ordinance,
(Session 8 No. 9) His Excellency has been
pleased to appoint

JOHN B. BENNETT, Esq.,
to be Registrar-General, of Births Deaths, and
Marriages for New Zealand. Such appoint-
ment to take effect from the 10th October
1854.

All subordinate officers appointed under the
above named Ordinance (as well as all Regis-
trars under the Marriage Act, 1854,) in the
several provinces of New Zealand are re-
quested to furnish Returns, and such other
information as may be required, to the Regis-
trar-General, and to communicate with him
as the head of the Department.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
17th April, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government has been pleased pleased to
appoint

CHARLES JOHN TAYLOR, Esq.; J.P.
to be a Commissioner of Crown Lands,
under the Crown Lands Ordinance, No. 1,
Sess. 10.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
17th April, 1855.

HIS Excellency the Officer Adminis-
tering the Government has been
pleased to direct that the name of the un-
dermentioned gentleman should be added
to the General Commission of the Peace
for the Islands of New Zealand.

CAPTAIN BYRON DRURY, R.N.

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

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland
30th April, 1856.

THE Officer administering the Government
directs it to be notified for general infor-
mation that

THOMAS MASON, Esq.;
having requested his name to be removed
from the Commission of the Peace for the
Province of Wellington, His Excellency has
complied with his request.

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