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sessions abroad for the purpose of establishing the
validity of certain Marriages previously contracted
therein, but doubts are entertained whether such
laws are in all respects effectual for the aforesaid
purpose beyond the limits of such possessions: Be
it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows---

Colonial laws establishing validity of Marriages to have effect
throughout Her Majesty's dominions.

1. Every law made or to be made by the Legis-
   lature of any such possession as aforesaid for the
   purpose of establishing the validity of any Marriage
   or Marriages contracted in such possession shall have
   and be deemed to have had from the date of the
   making of such law, the same force and effect for the
   purpose aforesaid within all parts of Her Majesty's
   dominions as such law may have had or may here-
   after have within the possession for which the same
   was made:

Not to give effect to Marriages unless parties are competent to
contract Marriage.
Provided that nothing in this law contained shall
give any effect or validity to any marriage unless at
the time of such marriage both of the parties thereto
were, according to the law of England, competent to
contract the same.

Definition of "Legislature."
2. In this Act the word "Legislature" shall in-
clude any authority competent to make laws for any
of Her Majesty's possessions abroad, except the
Parliament of the United Kingdom and Her Majesty
in Council.

Justice of the Peace appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CHARLES NAIRN, Esq.,

in the Province of Hawke's Bay, to be a Justice of
the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Appointment of Sheriff.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint

GEORGE SAMUEL SALE,
of Hokitika, in the Province of Canterbury, Esquire,
to be Sheriff for the District of Westland.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Resident Magistrate appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esq., J.P.,
of Dunstan, in the Province of Otago, to be a Resi-
dent Magistrate.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Registrar of the Supreme Court appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ROBERT ABBOTT,
late of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury,
Esquire, to be Registrar of the Supreme Court at
Hokitika.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Justice of the Peace appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HENRY REDWOOD, Jun.,
in the Province of Nelson, Esquire, to be a Justice of
the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Appointments under "Arms Act, 1860."
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

THOMAS BROHAM, and EDWARD PATTEN,
of Hokitika, in the Province of Canterbury, to be
persons to lay informations under "The Arms Act,
1860."

E. W. STAFFORD.

Justices of the Peace appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

BORTHWICK ROBERT BAIRD, Of Mount Ida,
JAMES CHARLES THOMPSON, of Alexandra,
and
JOHN MCKAY, of Waitahuna,
in the Province of Otago, Esquires, to be Justices of
the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

E. W. STAFFORD.

J. S. Smith, Esq., appointed Commissioner of Crown
Lands, New Zealand Company's Land Claims
Commissioner, and Lost Land Orders Commis-
sioner.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN STEPHENSON SMITH, Esq.,
of New Plymouth, to be a Commissioner of Crown
Lands, also a Commissioner under the New Zealand
Company's Land Claimants' Ordinance, and a Com-
missioner under the Lost Land Orders Act.

E. W. STAFFORD.

F. Whitaker, Esq., elected Superintendent of Auckland.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1865.

IT is hereby notified that a writ issued for the elec-
tion of a Superintendent for the Province of
Auckland has been returned with an endorsement to
the effect that

FREDERICK WHITAKER, Esq.,

has been duly elected.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Registration Officers appointed.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the following gentlemen to be Registra-
tion Officers for the districts set opposite their names,
as constituted by "The Representation Act, 1865:"-

JOHN SHARP, Waimea, Westland.
JOSIAH BIRCH, Cheviot.
WILLIAM DONALD, Ashley, Kaiapoi, Avon, Heath-
cote, Mount Herbert, Selwyn, Coleridge.
JOHN WATSON, Akaroa.
BELFIELD WOOLCOMBE, Timaru, Gladstone.