business of the licensee in the Colony, and in
such case the amount received for the license
so revoked shall be returned to the person who
paid the same.

5. Special licenses may be granted by any
   person authorized to grant a general license
   on payment of a fee of 5s., authorizing
   one importation, landing, sale, or other, disposal
   to be particularly described in every such license.

6. Every person to whom any such license
   shall be granted shall, on the 1st days of Janu-
   ary, April, July, and October, or within fifteen
   days after every such day, make a return, in
   writing, to some one of the persons who shall
   have been empowered to grant general
   licenses as aforesaid stating the particulars
   in respect of all the gunpowder, shot, and
   percussion caps sold or disposed of by such person
   during the three calendar months immediately
   preceding such days re-spectively, according to
   the Form B. in the Schedule hereunto annexed,
   and every license-holder who shall neglect to make
   such return, or who shall wilfully make a false re-
   turn, shall, in addition to any penalties he may
   incur for want of compliance with the terms of
   this proclamation, be deemed to have forfeited
   his license, which shall thenceforth be null and
   void; and no license shall be again granted to
   him without the special authority of the Go-
   vernor first obtained.

ARMS AND AMMUNITION FOR PERSONAL
DEFENCE, &C.

7. Provided always, that nothing herein con-
   tained shall prevent any person coming into the
   Colony from landing such arms and ammuni-
   tion as he may carry for personal defence, or
   for purposes of sporting, or shall apply to the
   importation and landing of supplies for the use
   of Her Majesty's Land or Sea Forces.

HALF PENALTIES TO PERSONS PROCURING
CONVICTIONS.

8. And I do hereby proclaim and declare,
   that for the more effectually detecting and pre-
   venting the unlawful importation, landing, sale
   and disposal of arms, gunpowder, and other
   warlike stores, I will cause to be awarded to
   any person or persons who shall have been ac-
   tive in or towards the procuring of any convic-
   tion under the provisions of the said recited
   Ordinance, one half of the penalty which may
   be recovered by virtue thereof.

9. This proclamation shall come into force
   in the Provinces of Auckland and New Ply-
   mouth on the 1st day of August next, and in
   the other four Provinces of the Colony on the
   1st day of October next.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land this twenty-fifth day
of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Governor.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TQ.

FORM A.

License to Import and Sell.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me in
that behalf by the Governor of New Zealand,
I, A. B., do hereby LICENSE C. D., (he having
paid the sum of £2,) to Import, Land,
Sell, and Dispose of Gunpowder, Shot fit for
sporting purposes, and Percussion Caps, during
twelve calendar months from the date hereof.
Provided always that this License may be
revoked by the Governor, or any person au-
thorized by him in that behalf, by notice to
that effect, to be left at the usual or last known
place of abode or business of the licensee, and
in such case the fee paid for the license so re-
voked will be returned.
Dated the day of 185 C. D.

The above license is granted, subject to the
following conditions, viz.—

[Insert here special conditions, if any.]

NOTE.—A return in the Form prescribed by
the Proclamation of the twenty-fifth day of June,
1857, must be made to some person authorized
to grant Licenses on the first days of January,
April, July, and October, or within fifteen days
of every such day, or this License will be void,
and penalties incurred under the "Arms Im-
portation Ordinance." A copy of the Form in
which the return is to be made is printed at the
back of this License.

** This Proclamation does not affect the
provisions of the "Arms Ordinance," Sess. 7,
No. 18. Under that Ordinance, the following
Licenses will still be required, (the Governor
having no power under its provisions to dis-
pense with them) viz:—

1. A License from a Justice of the Peace to
   authorize the removal of any Arms, or Warlike
   Stores or Gunpowder exceeding the weight of
   two pounds, from one part of the Colony to
   another.

2. A License to make, construct, amend,
   or repair any Arms, Gunpowder, or other War-
   like Stores.

FORM B.

A Return of all Gunpowder, Shot, and Per-
cussion Caps sold by the undersigned, be-
tween the 1st day of 185 , and the
1st day of 185 .

| Date of
each sale. | Name and
residence of each
purchaser. | Quantity and descrip-
tion of articles, also
stating whether
Gunpowder, sporting or
blasting. |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Decem-
ber, 1857. | E. F. | 3lbs. of sporting gun-
powder
8lbs. of shot
500 percussion caps
20lbs. of Blasting Pow-
der |
| | | (Signed) A. B. |