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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1865.

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 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 significa-
tion 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 amend the Waste
Land Regulations of the Province of Canterbury,"
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 the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this twenty-third day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.

By His Excellency's command,
J. C. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY.

A PROCLAMATION

Postponing the extension of the Jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court at Dunedin, in 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 Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates' Juris-
diction Extension Act, 1862," it is enacted
that every case of a claim for debt or damages such
as might at the passing of the said Act be lawfully
tried in a Resident Magistrate's Court, where the
debt or damages claimed do not exceed the sum of
twenty pounds, may be tried in any Resident
Magistrate's Court with respect to which the said
Act shall be in operation when the debt or damages
claimed do not exceed fifty pounds; And it is pro-
vided that the Governor may, by proclamation in the
Government Gazette of the Colony, declare that the
limit of jurisdiction of any such Court shall be
extended to one hundred pounds, and such limit of
jurisdiction shall be in such cases extended
accordingly.

And whereas by a Proclamation dated the first day
of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five, I, Sir George Grey, in
pursuance of the said recited Act, and of an Order in
Council dated the seventeenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, authorizing
the issue of Proclamation under the said Act, did
proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said