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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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-third day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

freed, acquitted, and indemnified of, from, and
against the same, and all actions, suits, indictments,
informations, prosecutions, proceedings, and liabilities
whatsoever: And by the same Act it is also enacted,
that in order to prevent any doubt which may
arise whether any act matter or thing alleged to
have been so done, or advised, commanded, ordered,
or directed to be done as aforesaid in or about
the quelling of the said insurrections, the resisting,
apprehending, 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
concerned or suspected to be concerned in the said
insurrections, the preserving or restoring 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 to be dangerous
or disloyal, or the providing for the safety of Her
Majesty's peaceable and loyal subjects, shall have
been done in or about the quelling of the said insur-
rection, or in or about some or all of the matters
aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Governor to declare
any such act matter or thing to come within the
provisions of the said Act, and that such declaration,
signified by writing under the hand of the Governor,
of which all Courts shall take judicial cognizance,
shall be a sufficient discharge and indemnity to all
and every person and persons concerned in any such
act matter or thing, and shall be conclusive evidence
that such act matter or thing was done, or advised,
commanded, ordered, or directed to be done in or
about some or all of the other matters aforesaid: And
whereas on the fifth day of September, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, at Whaka-
tane, on the East Coast of the Northern Island of
New Zealand, a certain vessel or cutter named the
"Margaret" whereof one Young, was master, was
seized by or by the order of John Henry Herbert
St. John, Major of the First Waikato Regiment,
and the Officer Commanding the Local Forces at
Opotiki: Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
the Governor, do by this writing under my hand
declare such seizure of the cutter "Margaret," as
aforesaid, to come within the provisions of "The
Indemnity Act, 1866."

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, this
twenty-first day of November in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
E. W. STAFFORD.

G. GREY, Governor..
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates' Juris-
diction Extension Act, 1862," it is enacted
that the limits of jurisdiction of any Resident
Magistrate's Court within the Colony may be ex-
tended in manner therein set forth ; and it is further
enacted that the second and third sections of the
said Act shall come into force in respect of any
Resident Magistrate's Court on a day to be deter-
mined by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette,
pursuant to an Order of the Governor in Council :

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of an Order in Council
of even date herewith, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the first day of December next, shall
be the day on and from which the second and third
sections of the said "Resident Magistrates' Jurisdic-
tion Extension Act, 1862," shall come into force to
the limit of jurisdiction of one hundred pounds in
respect of the Resident Magistrate's Court at Cobden,
in the District of Westland, in the Province of Nelson.

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-third day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Indemnity Act, 1866," it is
enacted 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 done any act matter or
thing, or advised, commanded, ordered, or directed
any act, matter, or thing to be done in or about the
suppressing or quelling of the insurrections in the
preamble of the said Act mentioned, or in or about
the resisting, apprehending, detaining, or confining,
or imprisoning of any person or persons concerned
or suspected to be concerned therein, or in or about
the destroying or damaging of the property belonging
to any person or persons concerned or suspected
to be concerned in the said insurrections, or in or
about the preserving or restoring of peace or good
order in any part of the said Colony, or the appre-
hension, detention, confinement, or imprisonment 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 peaceful and loyal subjects, should
be and they were thereby severally and respectively

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Military Pensions Act,
1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor from time to time to constitute and
appoint a Board or Boards of Medical Officers, and
to cancel or vary any appointment at pleasure; such
Board or Boards in each case to consist of not less
than three duly qualified Medical Practitioners.

Now, therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the said power and authority, do hereby appoint

FREDERICK FRANCIS ORMOND, M.R.C.S.L. & L.A.C.S.
SAMUEL THORP, M.R.C.S., and
GEORGE IRELAND RUSSELL, M.R.C.S.,
to constitute a Board of Medical Officers for the