THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

42. 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 appoint-
    ed by the Governor in that behalf, by the persons or
    person within the Colony in whom Ecclesiastical au-
    thority shall for the time being be vested, or reputed to
    be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies enumerated
    in the Schedule D. to this Act annexed, shall, subject
    to the conditions hereinafter mentioned, be an Offi-
    ciating Minister within the meaning of this Act; and
    the name of every such Minister of Religion shall be
    certified under the hand or hands of the person or per-
    sons aforesaid, and shall be entered and published as
    hereinafter provided: Provided always, that any Min-
    ister of Religion not connected with any of the Bodies
    enumerated in the aforesaid Schedule to this Act an-
    nexed, who shall present to any Registrar a certificate
    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 certi-
    ficate shall be sent in to the Registrar-General or
    other Officer as aforesaid, anew in the month of De-
    cember in every year, and no such attested certificate
    presented to any Registrar by any Minister as afore-
    said, shall continue in force unless renewed in like
    manner.

43. 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. above referred
to:-

The United Church of England and Ireland
The Church of Scotland
The Roman Catholic Church
The Free Church of Scotland
All Presbyterian Congregations...

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The Wesleyan Methodist Society
All Congregational Independents
Baptists
The Primitive Methodist Society
The Lutheran Church
All Hebrew Congregations
The Society of Friends.

I have therefore to request that the Names
of all Officiating Ministers may be sent in to
me, duly certified, before the termination of the
month of December next ensuing, in order that
such names may be entered in the List, a copy
of which will be published in the New Zealand
Government Gazette in the month of January
1858.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

SUPREME COURT.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Sitting of
the Supreme Court, for the despatch of
Criminal business, will be holden at the Court
House, Queen-street, Auckland, on Tuesday,
the First day of December next, at Ten o'clock
in the forenoon; and that a Sitting for the
despatch of Civil business will be holden at
the Court House aforesaid on Monday, the
seventh day of December next, at Ten o'clock
in the forenoon, at which times and place all
persons under Recognizance to appear as
Prosecutors, Defendants, or Witnesses, are
required to give their attendance.

L. O'BRIEN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office, Auckland,
7th November, 1857.

Printed by W. C. WILSON, "New-Zealander" Office.