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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

reign, intituled "An Act to grant a Repre-
sentative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted
that no Bill which shall be reserved for the sig-
nification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall
have any force or authority within the Colony
of New Zealand until the Governor of the
said Colony shall signify, by speech or mes-
sage to the Legislative Council and House of
Representatives of the said Colony, or by Pro-
clamation, that such Bill has been laid before
Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Ma-
jesty has been pleased to assent to the same.
And whereas a certain Bill passed by the
Legislative Council and House of Representa-
tives of the said Colony, intituled "An Act
for faciliating the issue of Crown Grants," was
presented to the Governor of the said Colony
for Her Majesty's Assent, and the said Bill was
reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's
pleasure thereon :
Now therefore I, the Governor of New Zea-
land, in pursuance of the provisions of the said
in part recited Act, do, by this Proclamation,
signify and proclaim to all to whom it may
concern that the said Bill has been laid before
Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Ma-
jesty has been pleased to assent to the same.
Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
and issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand this
thirtieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
G. GREY.

By His Excelleney's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
Intimating Her Majesty's assent to a certain
Bill passed by the General Assembly.

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., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Ses-
sion of Parliament held in the fifteenth
and Sixteenth years of Her Majesty's reign in-
tituled "An Act to grant a Representative
Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,"
it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill
which shall be reserved for the signification of
Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall have any
force or authority within the Colony of New
Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony
shall signify by speech or message to the
Legislative Council and House of Representa-
tives of the said Colony or by Proclamation that
such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in
Council and that Her Majesty has been pleased
to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the
Legislative Council and House of Representa-
tives of the said Colony entituled, "An Act
to amend the Auckland Waste Lands Act,
1858," was presented to the Governor of the
said Colony for Her Majesty's assent and the
said Bill was reserved for the signification of
Her Majesty's pleasure thereon:
Now therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the
said in part recited Act, do by this Proclama-
tion signify and proclaim to all to whom it may
concern that the said Bill has been laid before
Her Majesty in Council and that Her Majesty
has been pleased to assent to the same.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand this
thirtieth day of July in the year
of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION
Appointing certain Districts under the
"Registration Act, 1858."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Comman-
der-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zea-
land, and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., &c.
WHEREAS by the "Registration Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor at any time by Pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette to
divide the Colony of New Zealand for the
purposes of the said Act into such and so
many Districts as he may think fit, and that
every such District shall be called by a distinct
name and shall be a Registrar's District, and
it is provided that the Governor may at any
time revoke the whole or any part of such
Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation
dividing the Colony or any part of it anew
into Districts or increasing the number or
altering the boundaries of Districts as from
time to time he may think requisite :
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand,
do hereby revoke every Proclamation hereto-
fore issued so far as they relate to the constitu-
tion of the Districts at present designated the
District of Wairau and the District of Awatere,
and do proclaim and declare that the territory
hitherto comprised within such Districts shall
be and is hereby constituted for the purposes
of the said Act into one District, the name and
boundaries whereof shall be as follows: