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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

enacted that the limits of jurisdiction of any
Resident Magistrate's Court within the Colony may
be extended 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, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby order and direct
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' Jurisdiction Exten-
sion 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.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-third day of November, 1866.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Post Office
Act, 1858," power is given to the Governor in
Council from time to time to fix the amount of
gratuities to be paid to masters of vessels for the
conveyance of mails or letters.

And whereas by an Order in Council of the
eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, the amount of gratuities so to be paid was
so fixed, and it is desirable to alter and amend the
same:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said
recited power and authority, and by and with the
consent of the Executive Council, doth by this present
Order revoke so much of the Order of the eighteenth
December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as is
contained in clause fifty-one of the Regulations for the
management of Post Offices thereto attached, and
doth make the following Regulation in lieu thereof,
and doth further declare that this Order shall take
effect from the first day of January, 1867.

Regulation.

Gratuities shall be paid to masters of unsubsidized
vessels on mails despatched to any place out of the
Colony, at the rate of one penny per letter or packet
not including newspapers.

Gratuities shall be paid to masters of unsubsidized
vessels on mails despatched from any Post Office in
any Province within the Colony to any other Post
Office without the same Province but within the
Colony, at the rate of one halfpenny per letter or
packet not including newspapers.

Gratuities shall be paid to the masters of unsubsi-
dized vessels on mails conveyed from any Post Office
within any Province to any other Post Office within
the same Province or to or from any Post Office
within the Colony, and any vessel lying in any port
or outside of any port, but not being more than six
miles from such port, at the rate of one farthing per
letter or packet not including newspapers.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-third day of November, 1866.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Supreme
Court Amendment Act, 1862," it is provided that
the Judges of the Supreme Court from time to time
with the approval of the Governor in Council, may
revoke or alter any rules for the time being in force,
touching the administration of the effects and estates
of persons deceased, and with such approval as afore-
said, may make new and other rules in that behalf,
and also touching the practice and procedure of the
Supreme Court, in respect of any matter or thing
for the time being or which shall at any time be
within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and
such new or other rules with such approval as afore-
said may from time to time alter and revoke. And
whereas their Honors the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the Colony, have in pursuance of the power
so vested in them as aforesaid, made the following
general rules touching the practice and procedure of
the said Court: Now therefore, His Excellency the
Governor by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby signify
his approval of the said rules.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

REGULE GENERALES.
[October, 1866.]

By virtue of the powers vested in us by law, it is
ordered by us, the undersigned, Judges of the said
Court, that the following general rules shall come
into and be in force on and after the first day of
January, A.D., 1867 :—

1st. Pleading Provincial Ordinances.

When any party pleading relies upon any provi-
sion contained in any Act or Ordinance of any
Provincial Council, he shall insert in the margin of
the pleading the title and date of such Act or
Ordinance, and the number of any section thereof on.
which he relies; and it shall not be necessary to set
out the words or state the provisions of any such
section, except in such cases and in such manner as
would be necessary if the same were contained in an
Imperial Act, or an Act of the General Assembly.

2nd. Fee for Copying Documents and Office Copies.

The fee of 6d. per folio for copying documents, and
for office copies chargeable according to Schedule D.
of the Regulæ Generales of May, 1861, is hereby
abolished, and instead thereof there shall be payable
within each judicial district of the Colony for every
folio of seventy-two words copied such fee not exceed-
ing 6d., and not less than 4d. per folio, as the Judge of
such district shall direct by a notice to be posted in
the office of the Registrars and Deputy Registrars
within such district.

ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON,
Acting Chief Justice.
H. B. GRESSON, J.
C. W. RICHMOND, J.
H. S. CHAPMAN, J.
J. S. MOORE, J.