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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

words, "other warlike stores, of which the
importation, landing, sale, and other disposal is
prohibited by the Proclamation of the 26th
March, 1860, except under License in writing
first obtained under the hand of the Governor,
or of some person thereunto authorised by him.
C. W. RICHMOND.

"MARRIAGE ACT, 1854."
OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1861.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 12th November, 1860.

THE attention of the person or persons,
within the Colony of New Zealand, in
whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any
of the Religious Bodies, enumerated in "Sche-
dule D," annexed to an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Marriage Act, 1854," and of all other persons
concerned, is requested to the following extracts
from the Act aforesaid:—

"42. Any Minister of Religion, whose
name shall have been sent into 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 Offici-
ating Minister, 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 certificate 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 Regis-
trar 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 aforesaid,
a correct list of such Officiating Ministers
in the month of December in every year."

The following are the Religious Bodies enu-
merated 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 into 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, 1861.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW
ZEALAND.

In the Estate of MICHAEL KINCHLEY, of
Wangarei, deceased, intestate.

PURSUANT to the Rule of this Honorable
Court, the Creditors of the above-named
Intestate are, on or before the Fifteenth day
of February next, to come in and prove
their debts before Thomas Outhwaite, Esq.,
Registrar of the said Court, at his office in the
Court House, Queen-street, Auckland, or in
default thereof, they will be peremptorily ex-
cluded from all benefit arising from the said
Estate.

THOS. OUTHWAITE,
Registrar
Supreme Court Office, Auckland,
15th November, 1860.