Numb. 39.
299

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1865.

Declaration of Indemnity for Colonel Logan.

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 of the Parliament of New
Zealand, made and passed in the twenty-ninth
year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Vic-
toria, No. 1, intituled "an Act for indemnifying persons
acting in the suppression of the Native insurrection,"
it is enacted amongst other things that "All and sing-
ular the officers of Her Majesty's forces, and all and
every other person and persons whosover, who shall
at any time before the passing of this Act have acted
by authority of the Government, or in execution of
orders or directions of any officer of Her Majesty's
Imperial or Colonial forces, or of any Judge, Magis-
trate, or other person acting under authority of the
Government in or about the quelling of the said
insurrection; the resisting, apprehending, detaining,
confining, or imprisoning of any person or persons
concerned or suspected to be concerned therein; the
destroying or damaging of property belonging to any
person or persons concerned or suspected to be
concerned in the said insurrection; the preserving or
restoring of peace or good order in any part of the
said Colony; the apprehension, detention, confinement
or imprisonment of any dangerous or disloyal person
or persons, or of any person or persons believed or
suspected to be dangerous or disloyal; or the pro-
viding for the safety of Her Majesty's peaceable and
loyal subjects, shall be, and they are hereby severally
and respectively freed and indemnified of and from
all actions, suits, indictments, informations, prosecu-
tions, proceedings, and liabilities whatsoever, which
they, or any of them respectively, may have been or
may be or become liable or subject to, for or by
reason or by means of or in relation to any act,
matter, or thing, done by them respectively before
the passing of this Act, by such authority or in
execution of such orders or directions as aforesaid."

And further, that "in order to prevent any doubt
which may arise whether any act, matter, or thing,
alleged to have been so done as aforesaid shall have
been done under such authority or in execution of
such orders and directions as aforesaid, it shall be
lawful for the Governor to declare any such act,
matter, or thing, to have been done under such
authority or by such orders and directions as afore-
said."

And whereas an action was lately commenced, and
is now pending in the Supreme Court of New
Zealand, Middle District, wherein one James Moore,
of Wanganui, New Zealand, storekeeper, is plaintiff,
and Robert Abraham Logan, a Lieut.-Colonel in
Her Majesty's 57th Regiment, is defendant; in
which action the plaintiff seeks to recover damages
for that, as alleged by the plaintiff in the said action,
on or about the fifteenth day of April, 1865, the
defendant assaulted the plaintiff and imprisoned him
and kept him in prison for a long time, (that is to
say-from the said fifteenth day of April to the
twenty-fourth day of the said month of April.)

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said Act do
hereby declare that the acts, matters, and things,
done, or by the declaration in the said action alleged
to have been done by the said Robert Abraham
Logan, and thereby complained of, and for which the
plaintiff therein seeks to recover damages as afore-
said, were done under such authority or by such
orders and directions as in the said Act mentioned.

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this fifteenth day
of September, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
HENRY SEWELL.

Appointing Polling Places.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Governor and Commander-