Jumb. 48.
327

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION
Disallowing a certain Nelson Act.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the
Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a
Representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the
Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be
lawful for the Governor at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been received
by him, to declare by Proclamation his disallowance
of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same from and after the
day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subse-
quent day to be named therein:

And whereas the Act hereinafter specified has been
enacted by the Superintendent of Nelson, with the
advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof,
and the said Act was received by the Governor on
the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act
should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Act passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson, viz.:

"An Act to provide for the construction and
maintenance of Roads and other Public Works
in certain districts, Sess. XIV., No. 4."

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 said Colony
this twenty-first day of August, in the
year of our Lordt one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates'
Criminal Jurisdiction Extension and Amend-
ment Act, 1865," it is amongst other things enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Procla-
mation in the New Zealand Gazette, at any time to
suspend the operation of the second and third
sections of "The Resident Magistrates' Jurisdiction
Extension Act, 1862," with respect to any Resident
Magistrate's Court, provided always that such sus-
pension shall not be held to prevent the issuing of
warrants of distress or commitment, or otherwise
enforcing due satisfaction of any judgment obtained
in such Resident Magistrate's Court previous to such
suspension. And whereas by a Proclamation bearing
date the twenty-first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, the first day of
February then next ensuing was determined and
declared to be the day on and from which the pro-
visions of the said "Resident Magistrates' Jurisdiction
Extension Act, 1862," and especially the powers
conferred by sections two and three thereof, should
be exercised to the limit of jurisdiction of one
hundred pounds in the Resident Magistrate's Court
at Wanganui, in the Province of Wellington: And
whereas it is expedient to suspend the operation of
the said second and third sections of the said Act
with respect to the Resident Magistrate's Court at
Wanganui:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority so vested in me
as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
operation of the said second and third sections of