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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1865.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,
*Proclaiming certain Lands under "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863."

G. GREY, Governor.
At the Government House, at Auckland, on the
eighteenth day of May, 1865.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863," it was enacted amongst other
things, that whenever the Governor in Council
should be satisfied that any Native Tribe or section
of a tribe or any considerable number thereof, have,
since the first day of January, 1863, been engaged in
rebellion against Her Majesty's authority, it should
be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare
that the District within which any land being the
property or in possession of such tribe or section or
considerable number thereof should be situate, should
be a District within the provisions of the said Act,
and the boundaries of such District in like manner
to define and vary as he should think fit;
And whereas the Governor in Council is satisfied
that certain Native tribes, or sections of tribes,
having respectively as their property or in their
possession the lands hereunder described, have been
engaged in rebellion against Her Majesty's authority;
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise of the power vested in him by the said
recited Act, doth hereby, with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, declare that
from the date hereof, all the lands of the tribe
"Ngaiterangi" described in the Schedule to this
Proclamation, shall be a District within the provi-
sions of the "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,"
and shall be designated by the name mentioned in
such Schedule, and doth declare that the said Lands
are required for the purposes of the said Act and
are subject to the provisions thereof, and doth order
that the said Lands shall be and the same are
here set apart and reserved as sites for settlements
and colonization agreeably to the Provisions of the
said Act; And doth order, that in accordance with
the promise made by His Excellency the Governor
at Tauranga, on the sixth day of August, 1864,
three-fourths in quantity of the said lands shall be
set apart for such persons of the tribe Ngaiterangi
as shall be determined by the Governor, after due
enquiry shall have been made.
FRED. THATCHER,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

LANDS ABOVE REFERRED TO.
Schedule—Tauranga District.
All that land estimated to contain 214,000 acres,
known as the Tauranga Block.
Bounded on the north-east by the sea from the
mouth of Wairaki Creek to Ngakuria-whare Point;
on the south-east by a line bearing south 45° west
(true) 16 miles; thence on the south-west by a line
bearing north 45° west (true) to the summit or water-
shed of the dividing range of hills between the East
Coast and the Thames Valley; and thence following
the said watershed northward to the summit of the
Aroha Mountain; and on the north-west by a straight
line from the summit of the Aroha Mountain to
Ngakuria-whare Point.
Together with the Island of Tahua or Mayor
Island, and such portions of Motiti or Flat Island as
shall be adjudged to belong to the Ngaiterangi Tribe,
or to individual members thereof.

Warrant abolishing Principal Polling Places.
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.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:—
WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor by Warrant under his hand, from
time to time, to appoint Polling Places for each
Electoral District, within or without the limits