304 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Declaration of Indemnity for Colonel Morant.
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
Victoria, 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 singular the officers of Her Majesty's
forces and all and every other person and persons
whosoever who shall at any time before the passing
of this Act have acted by authority of the Govern-
ment, or in execution of orders or directions of any
officer of Her Majesty's Imperial or Colonial forces,
or of any Judge, Magistrate, or other person acting
under authority of the Government in or about the
quelling of the said insurrection, the resisting, appre-
hending, 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 con-
cerned 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 imprison-
ment of any dangerous or disloyal person or persons,
or of any person or persons believed or suspected to
be dangerous or disloyal; or the providing for the
safety of Her Majesty's peaceable and loyal subjects,
shall be, and they are hereby severally and respec-
tively freed and indemnified of and from all actions,
suits, indictments, informations, prosecutions, pro-
ceedings, and liabilities whatsover, 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 direc-
tions 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 aforesaid."

And whereas an action was lately commenced and
is now pending in the Supreme Court of New Zea-
land, Northern District, wherein one Solomon Cossey,
Horatio Harbord in the declaration in the said action
called, is plaintiff, and Horatio Herbert Morant, a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the 68th Regiment, is defen-
dant, in which action, the plaintiff seeks to recover
damages, for that, as alleged by the plaintiff in the
said action, on or about the seventeenth day of June,
1864, the said defendant unlawfully and maliciously
assaulted and imprisoned the plaintiff, and caused
the said plaintiff to be kept imprisoned in a certain
tent, used as a military prison, situate at Drury, in
the Province of Auckland, for a long period of time,
to wit, for the space of one day:

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 Horatio Herbert
Morant, and thereby complained of, and for which
the plaintiff therein seeks to recover damages as
aforesaid, 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 twenty-fifth
day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
HENRY SEWELL.

Warrant appointing Additional 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 Vice-Admiral of the
same, &c., &c., &c.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:—

WHEREAS by an an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "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 thereof, and to
appoint any one of such places to be the principal
polling place for the district, and all or any of such
polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint
other polling places in lieu thereof. And whereas by
another Act of the General Assembly, intituled "The
Provincial Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted that,
subject to certain provisions therein contained, every
election of the Superintendent or of a Member of the
Provincial Council of a Province shall be conducted
in the manner prescribed by "The Regulation of
Elections Act, 1858," aforesaid, and all the provisions
of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply to the
elections of Superintendents and Members of Pro-
vincial Councils:

Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Acts,
do hereby appoint the following places to be addi-
tional polling places for the districts hereinafter
mentioned, for the election of Members of the Pro-
vincial Council of the Province of Auckland, namely:

FOR RAGLAN-Post Office, Te Awamutu; Resident
Magistrate's Court House, Alexandra; do.,
Port Waikato; do., Drury.

FOR FRANKLIN-Mr. Sellar's House, Tauranga;
Resident Magistrate's Court House, Drury;
Court House, Queen Street, Auckland.

FOR TOWN OF ONEHUNGA-Court House, Queen
Street, Auckland.

Given under my hand at Government House,
at Wellington, this ninth day of October,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.
G. GREY.

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

Warrant appointing an Additional Polling Place.
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 Vice-Admiral of the
same, &c., &c., &c.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:—

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "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 thereof, and to