THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 255

"The Marriage Act, 1854," and of all other
persons concerned, is requested to the follow-
ing extracts from the Act aforesaid :-

"42. Any Minister of Religion, whose
name shall have been set 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 Co-
lony, in whom ecclesiastical authority
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 men-
tioned, be an Officiating 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 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
certificate signed by twenty-four house-
holders, resident in the District for which
such Registrar shall be appointed, de-
claring that such Minister is their Offi-
ciating Minister, shall be entitled
to have his name inserted in the
list of Officiating Ministers in the mean-
ing of this Act. Provided always that
such certificate shall be attested by two
Justies of the Peace, and such attested
certificate shall be sent in to the Regis-
trar-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.

"44. The several ecclesiastical authorities
as aforesaid of the respective Religious
Bodies, shall send in to the said Regis-
trar-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 & 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
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 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 a list, a
copy of which will be published in the New
Zealand Government Gazette, in the month
of January, 1860.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Court of Claims,
Auckland, 7th November, 1859.

DECISIONS in the undermentioned cases
will be given on Saturday, the 12th in-
stant, or such other days as shall then be ap-
pointed.

In those cases where certificates are to be
issued under clause iii of the Land Claims
Settlement Extension Act, claimants will be
required to take them up before the 31st of
December next.

F. D. BELL,
Land Claims Commissioner.

W. Hughes and T. Somer-
ville....................... Preemption Certificate 133
W. S. Grahame, (assign of
C. Fulton)................... do. do. 132
J. R. Hatfield.................. do. do. 217
W. Hay....................... do. do. 173
F. Whitaker.................... do. do. 107
T. Russell, E. Brereton and
R. Bleazard.................. do. do. 202
J. S. Polack.................... do. do. 231
R. S. Thomson............... do. do. 154 & 171
G. Hart........................ do. do. 121
Mary Kelly, (derived
from John Fair).............. do. do. 129
A. Chisholm.................. do. do. 120
A. Chisholm.................. do. do. 91 & 94
J. Newman.................... do. do. 247
A. Rooney..................... do. do. 148
J. J. Moore.................... do. do. 71
Francis White................ Old Land Claim 243g
Alexander Dalziel.......... do. do. 77 & 77a

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-
licensed and approved under the 11th clause of
the "Customs Regulation Act, 1858," as a
General Warehouse for the reception of goods
under Bond:

GEORGE HUNTER'S, situated at Exchange
Buildings, and marked C.

S. CARKEEK,
Deputy Commissioner,
Custom-house, Wellington,
24th October, 1859.