Numb. 35. 361

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.

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
Colonies of New Zealand and its De-
pendencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, &c., &c., &c.

of the Colony of New Zealand, this
twenty-sixth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable 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 Session of
Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "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 signifi-
cation 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 Legisla-
tive Council and House of Representatives of the
said Colony, intituled "An Act to enable Provincial
Councils to make laws affecting Public Roads and
Watercourses," 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 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

WHEREAS by "The Passengers' Act, 1855," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Go-
vernor of each of Her Majesty's possessions abroad,
by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time
issued for that purpose, to declare what shall be
deemed for the purposes of the said Act to be the
length of the voyage of any ship carrying passengers
from such possessions to any other place whatsoever,
and to prescribe such scale of diet for the use of the
passengers during the voyage as he shall think
proper, and also to declare what medicines, medical
comforts, medical instruments, and other matters
shall be deemed necessary for the medical treatment
of the passengers during such "colonial voyage:"

And whereas, by Proclamation, dated Nineteenth
day of March, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-six, the Governor of New Zealand, under the
power and authority in him vested, did make Pro-
clamation accordingly:

And whereas it is desirable to alter in part such
Proclamation:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, under the
power and authority in me vested as aforesaid, do
hereby proclaim and declare that for the purposes of