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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

JOHN HARE,
of Invercargill, to lay informations under
the "Native Land Purchase Ordinance,
Session VII., No. 19."
Wm. Fox.

MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS.

Colonial Defence Office,
Auckland, 16th November, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to make the following appoint-
ment, viz. :-

In the Auckland Militia.
Lieutenant DANIEL HENDERSON LUSK to be
Captain. Date of Commission--12th
November, 1863.
T. RUSSELL.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, Nov. 7, 1863.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zea-
land, passed in the eighteenth year of the
reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and
intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854," the
following name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER
within the meaning of the said Act is pub-
lished for general information.

Free Church of Scotland:
The Rev. JAMES HILL.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zea-
land, do hereby certify that the foregoing
NAME of an OFFICIATING MINISTER, within
the meaning of "The Marriage Act, 1854,"
has been sent in to me, in addition to the
names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 2, of the 23rd of January; No.
5, of the 14th of February; No. 12, of the
25th of March; No. 14, of the 21st of April;
No. 28, of the 11th of July; No. 31, of the
22nd of July; No. 36, of the 6th of August;
No. 40, of the 12th of August; No. 44, of
the 3rd of September; No. 46, of the 12th
of September, and No. 55, of the 27th of
October in the present year.

Given under my hand, at
Auckland, this seventh
day of November, 1863.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Notice as to Names of Officiating Ministers,
being sent in to the Registrar-General.

"MARRIAGE ACT 1854."

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1864.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, Nov. 10th, 1863.

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
"Schedule 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 fol-
lowing extracts fron the Act aforesaid:-

" 42. Any Minister of Religion, whose
name shall have been sent in to the
Registrar-General of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages, or other Officer to be
appointed by the Governor in that
behalf, by the persons or person within
the Colony, in whom ecclesiastical
authority shall for the time being be
vested, or reputed to be vested, over
any of the Religious Bodies enume-
rated in the "Schedule D," to this
Act annexed, shall, subject to the con-
ditions hereinafter mentioned, be an
Officiating Minister within the mean-
ing 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 al-
ways, that any Minister of Religion
not connected with any of the Bodies
enumerated in the aforesaid Schedule
to this Act annexed, who shall pre-
sent to any Registrar a certificate,
signed by twenty-four householders
resident in the District for which
such Registrar shall be appointed,
declaring that such Minister is their
Officiating Minister, shall be entitled
to have his name inserted in the list
of Officiating Ministers in the mean-
ing 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 December in every year, and
and no such attested certificate pre-
sented to any Registrar by any
Minister as aforesaid, shall continue
in force unless renewed in like
manner."

" 44. The several Ecclesiastical Authori-
ties as aforesaid of the respective
Religious Bodies, shall send in to the
said Registrar - 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
enumerated in Schedule D, above referred
to:-

"The United Church of England and
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,