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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PÖSTAL.

A PROCLAMATION
For requiring the Pre-payment of Letters
and Packets posted for transmission with-
in the Colony.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Post Office Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time by
Proclamation to be published in the New Zea-
land Gazette, to fix, alter, and abolish the
rates of Postage at any time, payable within
the Colony for the transmission of Letters and
Newspapers by Post either between places
within New Zealand, or to and from places
beyond Seas, and at what time the same shall
be paid, and that the Postage so made payable
shall be charged and paid accordingly. And
whereas by a Proclamation dated the twenty-
ninth day of December, one thousand eight-
hundred and sixty, made in pursuance of the
said recited power, certain rates of Postage
have been fixed for the transmission of Letters
in manner aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in further
pursuance of the said power and authority,
with the advice and corsent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, Do hereby Proclaim
and Declare that the Postage payable on all
Letters and Packets posted in any part of New
Zealand for any other part of New Zealand
shall be paid before the same shall be trans-
mitted by Post:

And I Do Appoint and Declare that this Pro-
clamation shall take effect on and after the
first day of April next ensuing.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
fourth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-
two.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of Jan Willem Van
Beek, alias John Smidt.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by "The Naturalization
Act, 1861," it is enacted that every
person who shall be declared to come within
the operation of that Act by any Proclamation
to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency
the Governor, shall, as from the time in such
Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken
until the termination of the next Session of the
General Assembly, to be, and to have been from
such specified time, a Natural-born subject
of Her Majesty within the Colony of New
Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as
if his name had been inserted in the Schedule
to that Act annexed. Provided always that
every such Proclamation shall contain the de-
scription, occupation or calling, of every person
therein named, and his place of residence at
the date of such Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the person
hereinafter mentioned, shall come within the
operation of the said Act from the date
hereinafter specified, viz. :-

JAN WILLEM VAN BEEK, alias JOHN
SMIDT,

from the first day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine, Native of Hol-
land, Mariner; residence, Lyttelton, in the
Province of Canterbury.

Given under my hand, at the Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
and issued under the Seal of
the Colony of New Zealand,
this sixth day of February,
One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.
G. GREY.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
Disallowing certain Ordinances of the
Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight, Commander of
the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Imperial Parliament holden in
the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign
of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An
Act to grant a Representative Constitution to
the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst
the other things enacted that whenever any Bill
shall have been assented to by the Superinten-
dent as in the said Act provided the Superin-