Numb. 36.
369

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1864.

A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty's Assent to certain Bills
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.

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 Bills passed by the Legisla-
tive Council and House of Representatives of the
said Colony, intituled-

"An Act to amend the Laws now in force for the
Sale, Letting, Occupation, and Disposal of Waste
Lands of the Crown within the Province of
Otago,"

"An Act to impose a Tax upon all Rural Lands
in the Province of Otago to be sold under the
'Otago Waste Lands Act, 1863,' and to make
certain provisions respecting lands heretofore
sold under conditions for the improvement
thereof,"

were presented to the Governor of the said Colony
for Her Majesty's assent, and the said Bills were
reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's plea-
sure 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
Bills have been laid before Her Majesty in Council,
and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to
the same.

Given under my hand, and issued under the
seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this twentieth day of September, 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!

A PROCLAMATION

Disallowing certain Ordinances passed by the Super-
intendent and Provincial Council of the Province
of Otago.

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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the
Imperial Parliament, holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Re-
presentative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Go-
vernor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be
lawful for the Governor, at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been received