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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of
Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth
years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to
grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted
that no Bill which shall be reserved for the significa-
tion of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall have
any force or authority within the Colony of New
Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall
signify by speech or message to the Legislative
Council and House of Representatives of the said
Colony, or by proclamation, that such Bill has been
laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her
Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legis-
lative Council and House of Representatives of the
said Colony, intituled "An Act to enable Superin-
tendents to issue to Volunteers and Militiamen
Remission Certificates for the purchase of Land,"
was presented to the Governor of the said Colony
for Her Majesty's assent, and the said Bill was
reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's
pleasure thereon:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part
recited Act, do by this proclamation signify and
proclaim to all whom it may concern, that the said
Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council,
and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to
the same.

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 Colouy,
this twenty-ninth 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.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Approved in Council, this seventeenth day of
November, 1866.

Present :

THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council, dated
the eighteenth day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-five, it was ordered
that from and after the first day of December then
next following—"no goods whatever should be carried
coastwise from any port or place in or from any
part of New Zealand to any port or place on or to
any part of the East Coast of New Zealand, situate
between the South head of Tauranga Harbour in the
Bay of Plenty and Table Cape:" And whereas it is
now expedient to remove the above recited restric-
tion:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and in exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in him in this behalf, doth hereby,
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council,
rescind and annul the said recited Order in Council,
dated the eighteenth day of November, 1865.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th December, 1866.

THE following Despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is
published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

(No. 20.)

Downing Street,
3rd September, 1866.

SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your Despatch No. 49, of the 28th of May, for-
warding, with a Memorandum on the subject from
your Responsible Advisers, a Petition, addressed to
the Queen by Mr. Whitaker, the Superintendent of
the Province of Auckland, praying that the Northern