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twelfth day of December, in the year of
Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Sixty-four.

By His Excellency's Command,
FRED. A. WELD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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
within the Colony of New Zealand, as fully to all
intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted
in the Schedule to that Act annexed: Provided
always that every such Proclamation shall contain
the description, occupation, or calling of every person
therein named, and his place of residence at the date
of such Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and
authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the persons hereinafter
mentioned shall come within the operation of the
said Act from the dates hereinafter specified, viz:-

CHARLES WARREN,

from the second day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, native of Sweden, master
mariner; residence, Lyttelton, in the Province of
Canterbury.

CHARLES IFWERSON,

from the second day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, native of Denmark, master
mariner; residence, Lyttelton, in the Province of
Canterbury.

MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDRE,

from the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four, native of Prussia, jeweller
and watchmaker: residence, Blenheim, in the Pro-
vince of Marlborough.

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this thirtieth day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.

By His Excellency's command,
HENRY SEWELL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

NOTE. This Proclamation is issued in consequence
of the above names, as forwarded, having been mis-
spelt "Wanen," "Lewerson," and "Alexander;" the
two former in a Proclamation dated 19th day of
April, 1864, and published in New Zealand Gazette,
No. 14, of the 23rd April, 1864; and the latter in a
Proclamation dated 28th day of September, 1864,
and published in New Zealand Gazette, No. 38, of the
7th October, 1864.

G. GREY.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the
13th day of December, 1864.

Present:----

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, by the "Intestate Natives Succes-
sion Act, 1861," it is provided, that in case any
person of the Native race shall die, or shall have died,
seised or entitled, at law or in equity, for an estate
in fee-simple, in possession of land held under title
derived from the Crown, and without having made a
valid disposal of such land by will, the Governor
shall, upon the application of any person claiming to
be interested in such land, cause an enquiry to be
made by a Commission (to be appointed in that be-
half by Warrant under the Governor's hand) as to
the persons who, according to native custom, or most
nearly in accordance therewith, ought, in the judg-
ment of such Commissioner, to succeed to the land
whereof such persons may have died so seised as
aforesaid: And whereas, in the year 1857, Hamiora
Pita of Takaka, in the Province of Nelson, Aborigi-
nal Native, died intestate, seised or entitled, at law
or in equity, for an estate in fee-simple, in possession
of a certain block of land, containing twenty acres,
Part 5 of Section 22, in the district of Takaka afore-
said: And whereas Ruiha Wirihana and Paramena
Nganarangi, claiming to be interested in this piece of
land, requested the Governor to appoint a Commis-
sioner under the said Act: And whereas, by a com-
mission bearing date the 5th day of December, 1863,
under the hand of the Governor and the seal of the
Colony, James Mackay the younger, of Nelson, As-
sistant Native Secretary, was appointed a Commis-
sioner to inquire into and report on the claims of the
said Ruiha Wirihana and Paramena Nganarangi to the
said land: And the said James Mackay reported
that the said Ruiha Wirihana and Paramena Ngana-
rangi are the persons who, according to Native cus-
tom, would be entitled to succeed to the said land :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony, doth direct and declare that Ruihana
Wirihana and Paramena Nganarangi are the persons
entitled to succeed to the said land; and doth fur-
ther order, that the said piece of land shall be par-
titioned in equal parts between them, the said Ruiha
Wirihana and Paramena Nganarangi, according to the
plan hereon drawn; and that a grant of the piece
marked A shall be made to Ruiba Wirihana, his heirs
and assigns, and a grant of the piece marked B to the
said Paramena Nganarangi, his heirs and assigns.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

The New Zealand Natives Reserves Act, 1856.

I, GEORGE F. SWAINSON, a person duly ap-
pointed in this behalf, under the provisions of
the "New Zealand Natives Reserves Act, 1856,"
hereby certify and report, that I have ascertained
that the Aboriginal Inhabitants entitled to the piece
or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereunder
written, have assented that the said piece or parcel
of land shall be subject to the provisions of the said
Act.

As witness my hand this 15th day of November,
1864.

GEORGE F. SWAINSON.

SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

All that piece of land situate at Porirua, Welling-