Numb. 38.
379

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

AUCKLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1864.

A PROCLAMATION
Disallowing certain Otago Provincial Ordinances.

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
by him, to declare, by Proclamation, his disallowance
of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same, from and after the
day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subse-
quent date to be named therein :

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter specified
have been enacted by the Superintendent of the
Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the
Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinances
were received by the Governor on the Fifth day
of September, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty-four :

And whereas is is expedient that the said Ordi-
nances should be disallowed :

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested
in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of
Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my dis-
allowance of the following Ordinances passed by the
Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Pro-
vince of Otago, viz. :-

"Education Reserves Ordinance, 1864,"
"Hawksbury Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Southern Trunk Road Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Kaikorai District Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Anderson's Bay District Roads Lands Ordinance,
1864,"
"Tokomarairo District Roads Lands Ordinance,
1864,"
"Taieri Districts Roads Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Northern Trunk Road Lands Ordinance, 1864,"
"Caversham and Green Island Districts Roads
Lands Ordinance, 1864."

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Auckland, and issued under the
Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this
fifth day of October, in the year of
Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Sixty-four.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY.

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of certain Persons.

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 the "Naturalization Act, 1863,"
it is enacted that every person who shall be
declared to come within the operation of that Act by
any Proclamation, to be issued in that behalf by His
Excellency the Governor, shall, as from the time in
such Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken,
until the termination of the next Session of the
General Assembly, to be, and to have been from such
specified time, a natural-born subject of Her Majesty