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Council, delegate all or any of the powers for any
period, and subject to such stipulations as may be
specified in such order, and that every such delega-
tion may, from time to time, in like manner be
altered or revoked.

And whereas it is enacted by "The Public
Domains Amendment Act, 1865," that the word
"person" in the said eleventh section of the said Act
shall be deemed to include more persons than one:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth by this present order revoke the
delegation under the said Act contained in an Order
in Council dated the eleventh day of May last, and
doth in like manner by this present order delegate
all the powers conferred by the first said Act, except
the powers under sub-sections 2, 5, and 10, of section
5, and under section 11, to the undermentioned
persons—

FREDERICK WHITAKER, Esq., who shall be
Chairman,
ROBERT GRAHAM, Esq.,
Honorable JOHN ANDERSON GILFILLAN,
FRANCIS DART FENTON, Esq.,
GEORGE BURGOYNE OWEN, Esq.,
RICHARD FIELD PORTER, Esq.,
RICHARD RIDINGS, Esq.,

subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained.

1. None of the powers delegated shall be exercised
   in respect of any land in the actual occupation of
   the Governor, except at his instance and request, nor
   in respect of any land described in section 3 of the
   Schedule to the said Act.
2. The Board shall meet at such times and places
   as shall be from time to time appointed by the
   Chairman, or shall be convened by him.
3. The Board shall keep proper minutes and
   records of its proceedings.
4. Two members of the Board shall form a quorum.
5. All questions shall be determined by a majority
   of the members of the Board present at a meeting.
   The Chairman shall have a casting as well as an
   original vote.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
Delegation under “The Native Reserves Act, 1862."
G. GREY, Governor.
At the Government House, at Wellington, on the
sixth day of November, 1865.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand
Native Reserves Act, 1856," certain powers therein
specified are vested in the Commissioners under the
said Act; and whereas by another Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Native Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," all the
powers and authorities which by "The New Zealand
Natives Reserves Act, 1856," are given to or vested
in or which may be exercised by Commissioners
appointed or to be appointed under that Act, shall
vest in and may be exercised by the Governor; and
it is by the said Act further enacted that the
Governor may by Order in Council from time to
time delegate all or any of the powers competent to
the Commissioners under the said Act unto any
person or persons for any period and subject to any
regulations or stipulations as may be specified in
such order:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Grey,
in exercise of the power and authority so vested in
him as Governor as aforesaid, doth by this Order in
Council delegate until this order shall be revoked to
The Honorable HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
all the powers competent to Commissioners under
the said first recited Act, without any restrictions or
stipulations whatever.

Approved in Council this sixth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.
Appointment of Trustees under "Maori Funds Invest-
ment Act, 1865."
G. GREY, Governor.
At the Government House, at Wellington, on the
sixth day of November, 1865.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS under and by virtue of a certificate
of the Compensation Court of New Zealand,
made and issued at Auckland on the twenty-sixth
day of April, 1865, Riria Takaanini, the widow of
Ihaka Takaanini, late of Pukaki, in the Province of
Auckland, deceased, on behalf of herself and as the
natural guardian of her children, Erina Takaanini,
Te Wirihana Takaanini, and Ihaka Takaanini, is
entitled to receive from the Colonial Treasurer the
sum of three thousand nine hundred and forty-four
pounds, on account of the taking of the Pukekohe
and West Pukekohe blocks of land under and in
pursuance of "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863."

And whereas under and by virtue of another
certificate of the said Compensation Court, made
and issued at Auckland aforesaid on the eighteenth
day of May, 1865, the said Riria Takaanini, as
natural guardian of the said Hone Wirihana Takaa-
nini, Erina Takaanini, and Ihaka Takaanini, is
entitled to receive from the Colonial Treasurer the
sum of three hundred and fifty pounds, on account
of the taking of the Patumahoe Block under and in
pursuance of the said Act.

And whereas under and by virtue of another
certificate of the said Compensation Court, made
and issued at Auckland aforesaid on the twenty-
seventh day of May, 1865, the said Riria Takaanini,
on behalf of herself and as the natural guardian of
the said Erina Takaanini, Te Wirihana Takaanini,
and Ihaka Takaanini, is entitled to receive from the
Colonial Treasurer the sum of thirty pounds, on
account of the taking of the Pokeno block of land
under and in pursuance of the said Act.

And whereas the said several sums of money have
not been paid by the Colonial Treasurer to the said
Riria Takaanini, but are still due and owing under
the said "New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," and
the said certificates of the Compensation Court
before recited.

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly,
called "The Maori Funds Investment Act, 1865," it
is enacted that in any case in which any money
shall be payable by the Crown to any Maoris by
way of compensation under any Act of the General
Assembly, if such persons or any of them shall be
infants, lunatics, or under any legal disability, it
shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order
that so much of such sum of money as on the face of
the order, award, certificate, or other instrument
whereby such sum of money becomes payable, shall
appear to be payable to such infant, lunatic, or other
person under legal disability, or the whole of it, if
the respective shares of the persons named in such