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325

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.

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 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 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 Zealand,
Northern District, wherein one John Runciman, in
the Province of Auckland, is plaintiff, and Henry
Meade Hamilton, late of Ngaruawahia, but now of
Tauranga, of Her Majesty's 12th Regiment of Foot,
Colonel of the first battalion, is defendant, in which
action the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for an
alleged wrongful detention of certain sheep at
Ngaruawahia in the month of December, 1864:

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 Henry Meade
Hamilton, 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 the hand of 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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, and
issued under the seal of the Colony this
fifteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.