THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 523

Charles Broad, Esq., J.P., appointed R.M.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 25th November, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
CHARLES BROAD, ESQ., J.P.,
of Taieri, in the Province of Otago, to be a
Resident Magistrate.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 7th Dec., 1863.
THE following Proclamation, issued by
His Honor the Superintendent of the
Province of Otago, admitting Cattle into that
Province from a certain portion of the County
of Mornington, in the Colony of Victoria, is
published for general information.
WM. Fox.

PROCLAMATION,
Admitting Cattle into the Province of Otago
from a portion of the County of Mornington,
in the Colony of Victoria.

By the Honorable JOHN HYDE
HARRIS, Superintendent of the
Province of Otago.

I, JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent of
the Province of Otago, by virtue of the
powers vested in me in this behalf, do hereby
Proclaim and Declare that from and after
the date hereof, until further notice, that
portion of the County of Mornington, in the
Colony of Victoria, hereinafter described,
shall not be deemed an infected district
within the meaning and for the purposes of
the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861:" and that
I do hereby rescind the Proclamation of the
Superintendent of the Province of Otago,
bearing date the fifth day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, so far
as the same relates to the before-mentioned
portion of the Colony of Victoria, that is to
say-All that area commencing at the mouth
of a creek in Western Port Bay, said creek
forming part of the west side of portion 2,
parish of Yallock; thence by that creek
northerly to the south side of the Koo-we-
Rup Swamp; by that side of the swamp and
a line north easterly to a point on the Buneep
Creek, seven miles south of the
boundary of the village of Buneep; thence
southerly by part of the east boundary of the
County of Mornington to Cape Patersen;
thence westerly and northerly by the sea
coast and the shores of Western Port Bay
to the point of commencement, including
likewise Phillip and French Islands.

L.S.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province of Otago, at Dunedin,
this sixth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three.
JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 7th December, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor directs the
publication for general information, of
the following Act passed by the Imperial Par-
liament, intituled "An Act to Amend the
Passenger Act, 1855."
WILLIAM Fox.

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO & VICESIMO SEPTIMO
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LI.
An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1855.
[13th July, 1863.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The
Passengers Act, 1855," in the Particulars
herein-after mentioned: Be it therefore en-
acted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the Authority of the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes
   as "The Passengers Act Amendment Act,
   1863."

2. This Act shall come into operation on
   the First Day of October One thousand eight
   hundred and sixty-three.

3. The Definition in the Third Section of
   "The Passengers Act, 1855," of the Term
   "Passenger Ship," is hereby repealed, and
   for the Purposes of the said Act and of this
   Act the Term "Passenger Ship" shall signify
   every Description of Sea-going Vessel,
   whether British or Foreign, carrying, upon
   any Voyage to which the Provisions of the
   said "Passengers Act, 1855," shall extend,
   more than Fifty Passengers, or a greater
   Number of Passengers than in the Propor-
   tion of One Statute Adult to every Thirty-
   three Tons of the registered Tonnage of such
   Ships, if propelled by Sails, or than One
   Statute Adult to every Twenty Tons, if pro-
   pelled by Steam.

4. So much of the Fourth Section of the
   said "Passengers Act, 1855," as exempts
   from the Operation of the Act any Steam
   Vessel carrying Mails under Contract with
   the Government of the State or Colony to
   which such Vessel may belong, is hereby
   repealed, and every Steam Vessel, whether
   British, Foreign, or Colonial, which shall
   carry Passengers other than Cabin Passen-
   gers in sufficient Number to bring such
   Vessel within the Definition of a Passenger
   Ship, as set forth in the Third Section of this
   Act, shall be subject to the Provisions of the
   said Act and of this Act in like Manner as
   any Passenger Ship not carrying a Mail.