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4. At what Port have you touched on your
   passage?
   Answer.

5. What vessel have you had intercourse
   or communication with on your passage, and
   from whence did they come?
   Answer.

6. Have you any, and what Bills of Health?
   Answer.

7. Did the Cholera, or any other highly
   infectious and dangerous disease, prevail at
   the place from which you sailed, or at any of
   the places at which you have touched, or on
   board of any vessel with which you have had
   communication? if so, state when and where.
   Answer.

8. In the course of your voyage have any
   persons on board suffered from sickness of
   any kind, what was the nature of such sick-
   ness, and when did it prevail? how many
   persons were affected by it, and have any of
   them died in the course of the voyage?
   Answer.

9. What number of officers, mariners, and
   passengers have you on board?
   Answer.

10. What was the number of persons on
    board your vessel when you sailed?
    Answer.

11. What is the whole number of persons
    now ill on board your vessel ?
    Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on board
    when did the last attack of disease appear,
    and when did it entirely disappear.
    Answer.

J. Rogan, Esq., J.P., appointed Resident
Magistrate.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, January 11, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
JOHN ROGAN, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate.
FREDK. WHITAKER.

Resignation by Hon. T. B. Gillies, of office as
Secretary for Crown Lands accepted.

colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, Jan. 13th, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation by
the
HON. T. B. GILLIES,
of his office as Secretary for Crown Lands.
Wм. Fox.

Alfred Domett, Esquire, appointed Secretary for
Crown Lands.

colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, Jan. 13th, 1864.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
ALFRED DOMETT, ESQUIRE, M.G.A.,
to be Secretary for Crown Lands.
This appointment bears date the 24th
ultimo.
Wм. Fox.

Act left to its Operation.

colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, January 15, 1864.
THE following Ordinance passed by the
Provincial Council of the Province of
Taranaki, intituled-
"Dog Nuisance Ordinance, 1863,"
having been laid before the Governor, His
Excellency has been pleased to leave the same
to its operation.

WILLIAM Fox.

colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 15th January, 1864.
THE following Act, passed by the Imperial
Parliament, intituled "An Act to deter-
mine the time at which Letters Patent shall
take effect in the Colonies," is published for
general information.

Wм. Fox.

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO AND VICESIMO SEPTIMO
VICTORLE REGINE.

CAP. LXXVI.

AN ACT to determine the Time at which Let-
ters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies.
[28th July, 1863.]

WHEREAS Her Majesty hath from time to
time caused to be made under the great Seal
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland divers Letters Patent intended to
take effect within Her Majesty's Colonies
and Possessions beyond the seas: And
whereas doubts are entertained respecting
the period at which such Letters Patent have
taken or may hereafter take effect within
such Colonies and Possessions, and it is ex-
pedient that such doubts should be removed:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:

1. No such Letters Patent heretofore
   made shall (unless otherwise provided therein
   or by other lawful authority) be deemed to
   have taken or shall take effect in any such
   Colony or Possession as aforesaid until the
   same were or shall be publicly made known
   or acted upon therein Provided that any
   act or thing heretofore done or purporting to
   have been done in pursuance or under
   authority of such Letters Patent shall be as
   valid and effectual as if the same Letters
   Patent had taken effect at the date of the
   making thereof.

2. No such Letters Patent hereafter to be
   made shall (unless otherwise provided there-
   in or by other lawful authority) take effect
   in any such Colony or Possession until the
   making of the same shall have been signified
   therein by Proclamation or other public
   Notice.

3. Any such Letters Patent by which any
   person may be hereafter appointed to any
   office or employment within any of such
   Colonies or Possessions shall (unless other-