THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 325

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Appointing Upper Waikato District under
"Native Districts Regulation Act."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
K. C. B., Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.,
&c., &c., With the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of
the said Colony.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the
"Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858," it is
provided that it shall be lawful for the Gover-
or in Council from time to time to appoint
Districts for the purposes of the said Act, being
Districts over which the Native Title shall not
for the time being have been extinguished:

And whereas it is expedient that the District
hereinafter described should be appointed a
District for the purposes of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
or, by and with the advice and consent of his
Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint,
and declare that the Territory hereafter des-
cribed shall be a District for the purposes of
the said Act, that is to say:-All Territory
lying within a boundary line commencing at
the Mission Station at Taupiri on the River
Waikato, thence running up the Eastern bank
of the said river till it meets the boundary of
the land belonging to the Ngatihaua tribe,
and thence following the boundary of the land
belonging to the Ngatihaua and Ngatiraukawa
tribes (crossing the River Thames) till it re-
turns to the Waikato River, thence running
westerly along the Taurangakohu ranges and
crossing to the summit of Pirongia Mountain
(so as to enclose the sources of the Waipa
River), thence running northerly along the
ranges skirting the Western bank of the
Waipa and Waikato Rivers to the commencing
point at the Mission Station at Taupiri:

And doth hereby appoint and declare that
the said District shall be called the Upper
Waikato District:

And doth declare that this Order shall take
effect from and after the 1st day of January,
1862.

Issued under the Public Seal of the
said Colony at Auckland, the
sixteenth day of December, 1861.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Prohibiting Sale or Removal of Spirituous
Liquors in Upper Waikato District.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
K. C. B., Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over the
Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.,
&c., With the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the
said Colony.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the
"Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to
appoint Districts for the purposes of the said
Act, being Districts over which the Native Title
shall not for the time being have been extin-
guished: And by the same Act it is further
provided that it shall be lawful for the Gover-
or in Council from time to time to make and
put in force within any such District Regu-
lations (among other things) for the prevention
of drunkenness, and for the sale, removal, and
disposal of spirituous and fermented liquors,
and for the restriction or prohibition of such
sale, removal, and disposal: And by the same
Act it is further provided that it shall be law-
ful by any such Regulation to impose penalties
not exceeding fifty pounds for the breach or
non-observance of any such Regulation; and
that any such Regulation shall be made as far
as possible with the general assent of the Native
population affected thereby, to be ascertained
in such manner as the Governor may deem
fitting: And whereas by Order in Council
bearing even date herewith, a District (to be
called the Upper Waikato District) hath been
appointed for the purposes of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to make and put
in force within such District the following
Regulations relating to the sale, removal, and
disposal of spirituous and fermented liquors,
and the general assent thereto of the Native
population affected thereby has been ascertained
to the satisfaction of the Governor :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, by and with the advice and consent of his
Executive Council, doth hereby make and put
in force within the said Upper Waikato Dis-
trict, the following Regulations, that is to
say:---

1. No person shall sell or dispose of spirit-
   uous or fermented liquors within the said
   District; and every person offending against
   this Regulation shall be liable for each offence
   to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

2. No person shall remove any Spirituous
   or Fermented Liquors from any place outside
   the said District into any place within the
   same, or from any place within the said Dis-
   trict to any other place within the same, with-
   out a License in that behalf previously had
   and obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned:
   and every person offending against this Regu-
   lation shall be liable for each offence to a
   penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

3. It shall be lawful for any Resident
   Magistrate, with the concurrence of at least
   one Native Assessor, acting within such Dis-
   trict, to grant Licences for the Removal of
   Spirituous or Fermented Liquors into or within
   the said District.

4. All Fines levied by virtue of the prece-
   ding Regulations will, pursuant to the Native
   Circuit Courts Act, 1858, be appropriated and
   disposed of, from time to time, by the Gover-
   nor in Council, for the purposes of Govern-
   ment within the said District, or otherwise
   for the common benefit of the inhabitants
   thereof.