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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE,

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
Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-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
fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty's
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
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 Representatives 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 Represen-
tatives of the said Colony, intituled, "An
Act to Alter the Civil List," 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 Ma-
jesty'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
proclamation signify and proclaim to all
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 Government
House, at Auckland, and issued
under the Seal of the Colony of
New Zealand, this twenty-seventh
day of July, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.

By His Excellency's command,
G. GREY,
WILLIAM Fox.

and conditions upon which Miners' rights shall
be granted, and the forms of such Miners'
rights and of licences and leases to be issued
under the said Act, and the modes, times, and
places of issue thereof, and also touching the
extent and position of any claim, and the
conditions under which it shall be worked,
held, assigned, or forfeited, the application
and use of machinery, and all such other rules
and regulations relating to the mining under
Miners' rights or otherwise in any Gold
Field as he may deem most beneficial: And
whereas at a Council held on the fifteenth
day of September, one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-three, the Governor in Council
made certain regulations for the conduct of
Gold Mining within the District of the
Coromandel Gold Field, whereby amongst
other things it was provided that for certain
causes therein set forth, provision to retain
a claim unworked may be granted by the
warden or any person duly authorised, and
the same shall be thereon registered for three
months, during which time he shall be enti-
tled to occupy a claim elsewhere: And
whereas the Government have made certain
promises or have undertaken obligations to
protect the claims of companies or of indivi-
duals in the Coromandel Gold Field during
the Maori insurrection, and it is expedient
to make additional regulations to authorise
such protection: Now therefore, His Excel-
lency the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, doth hereby make the further rules
and regulations following for the conduct of
the gold-mining within the District of the
Coromandel Gold Field aforesaid :---Permis-
sion to retain a claim unworked may be
granted by the Warden or any person duly
authorised, if it shall appear to the Governor
that such unworking shall be caused or shall
have been caused in consequence of the
Maori insurrection, whether the period for
which such claim may have been registered
shall or shall not have expired at the time of
this regulation coming into force; or whether
such claim may have been previously regis-
tered or not, and the registration of any such
claim may be made or renewed from time to
time for periods of three months at any time
so long as in the opinion of the Commissioner
the unworking of such claim shall be caused
by the said insurrection.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

G. GREY.
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Auckland,
the twenty-first day of July, 1864.
Present:-

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is provided by the "Gold
Fields Act 1862," that it should be
lawful for the Governor in Council, subject
to the provisions of the said Act, to make
rules and regulations relating to the terms

Resignation by Mr. Price, Esq., as Resident
Magistrate accepted.

Attorney General's Office,
Auckland, 19th July, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation by
MATTHEW PRICE, ESQ., J.P.,
of his appointment as Resident Magistrate
at Invercargill in the Province of Southland.

FREDK. WHITAKER.