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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1865.

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

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
second day of September, 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 districts within which any land, being the pro-
perty or in the 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 in the district hereunder de-
scribed, 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 the land described in the
Schedule to this Order shall be a district within the
provisions 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 hereby set
apart and reserved as sites for settlement and coloni-
zation agreeably to the provisions of the said Act;

and doth hereby further declare with the advice and
consent aforesaid, that no land of any loyal inhabitant
within the said district whether held by Native
custom or under Crown Grant, will be taken, except
so much as may be absolutely necessary for the
security of the country, compensation being given
for all land so taken, and further that all rebel
inhabitants of the said district who come in within a
reasonable time and make submission to the Queen
will receive a sufficient quantity of land within the
said district under grant from the Crown.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.
Central Waikato.

All the land not yet subjected to the provisions of
"The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," lying
within the following lines, that is to say-Commen-
cing at Pokorokoro in the Gulf of the Thames, thence
proceeding southward in a straight line to the
Hapuakohe Pass, thence in a straight line to the
summit of Pukemoremore, thence in a straight line to
the summit of Maungakawa, thence in a straight
line to Pukekura, thence in a straight line to
Orakau, thence in a straight line to the nearest
point of the Puniu River, thence following the
Puniu River to its junction with the Waipa River,
thence in a straight line to the summit of Mount
Pirongia, thence in a straight line to the nearest
point of the Waitetuna River, thence by the
Waitetuna River to Whaingaroa Harbour, thence by
the habour to the sea, thence by the sea to Waikato
Heads, thence by the Waikato River to the junction
of the Mangatawhiri River, thence by the Mangata-
whiri River to the southern angle of the District of
East Wairoa, being a district under the provisions of
the said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863;"
thence in a straight line to the Surrey Redoubt,
thence in a straight line to the Esk Redoubt, thence
in a straight line to the commencing point at
Pokorokoro.