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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

to act alone, or with Assessors, or Juries, and
in such manner and to exercise all or any of
the powers in the said Act mentioned as the
Governor should think fit to direct:

And by the forty-first section of the same
Act, it was further enacted that it should be
lawful for the Governor in Council, under his
hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from
time to time, to delegate to the Superintendent
of any Province, or to such other person as the
Governor should deem fit, all or any of the
powers vested in the Governor, or the Governor
in Council, by the said Act, except as in the
said Act is excepted, but not excepting the
powers vested in him by the said fifteenth
section, subject or not to any limitations or
restrictions as he might think fit.

And by the twenty-seventh section of the
same Act, it was enacted that it should be
lawful for the Governor in Council, from time
to time, to make, alter, and revoke Rules
regulating the Procedure and Practice in the
Courts to be established under the said Act,
and in cases of appeal therefrom, and also to
fix the fees to be taken in respect of proceed-
ings therein.

Now His Excellency the Governor doth by
this Instrument, under his hand and under the
Public Seal of the Colony, and with the advice
and consent of his Executive Council, delegate
to

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago, so
long as he shall continue Superintendent of
such Province, but no longer, the powers con-
tained in the said fifteenth section of the said
recited Act, subject to the Regulations first
hereunder written.

And His Excellency the Governor doth, by
this Order in Council, make the Regulations
secondly hereunder written for the Practice
and Procedure of Wardens Courts of Gold
Fields heretofore and hereafter to be established
under the said Act.

Regulations firstly before referred to.

All acts and appointments done and made
by the said Superintendent under the fore-
going delegation shall be provisional, until the
same shall have been confirmed and allowed by
the Governor, and the Governor shall have
power to disallow the same.

The Superintendent shall report, without
delay, to the Governor, all such acts and
appointments.

The Superintendent shall lay before the
Provincial Council of the said Province every
such act and appointment at the Session of the
said Council next following.

The Provincial Council of the said Province
may, through their Speaker, transmit to the
Governor any Resolution respecting any such
act or appointment.

Regulations secondly before referred to.

The Practice, Procedure, and Fees of the
said Wardens' Courts, and in cases of appeal
from such Courts, shall be as nearly as may be
the same as the Practice, Procedure, and Fees
in the Resident Magistrates' Courts in the
Colony of New Zealand, and in cases of appeals
from such Courts.

Given under my hand at New Plymouth,
and issued under the seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
ninth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three,
G. GREY.

With the advice and consent of
the Executive Council.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Colonial Secretary Office,
Auckland, 21st May, 1863.

THE following Convention between Her
Majesty and the King of the Belgians
relative to the Joint Stock Companies is pub-
lished for general information.

READER WOOD,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.

CONVENTION

Between Her Majesty and the King of
the Belgians relative to Joint Stock
Companies.

Signed at London, November 13, 1862.
(Ratifications exchanged at London, December
8, 1862.)

Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, having
judged it expedient to come to an understand-
ing in order to define, within their respective
dominions and possessions, the position of
commercial, industrial, and financial Companies
and Associations constituted and authorised in
conformity with the laws in force in either of
the two countries, have resolved to conclude a
convention for that purpose, and have named as
their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :--

Her Majesty the Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Right Honourable John Earl Russell, Viscount
Amberley of Amberley and Ardsalla, a Peer of
the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most
Noble Order of the Garter, a Member of Her
Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and
the Right Honourable Thomas Milner Gibson,
a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, a member of
Parliament, and President of the Committee of
Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign
Plantations;

And His Majesty the King of the Belgians,
the Sieur Sylvain Van de Weyer, His Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Her Britannic Majesty, Grand Cross of the
Order of Leopold, decorated with the Iron
Cross, Grand Cross of the Order of Charles
III. of Spain, of the Order of the Ernestine
Branch of Saxony, of the Tower and sword,
of St. Maurice and St Lazarus, Commander
of the Legion of Honour, &c.;

Who, after having communicated to each
other their respective full powers, found in