THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 473

All sums so received by the Printer will be duly
acknowledged through the medium of the Gazette.
(By command)
W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th December, 1866.
IT is hereby notified for public information that the
Master's certificate held by
JAMES WEST,
late Master of the barque "Lizzie Scott," of Sunder-
land, recently wrecked at Chatham Islands, has been
suspended for three months from 8th November, 1866.
JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

STAMP DUTIES ACT, 1866.—Notice.—Persons
desirous of becoming Licensed Distributors of
Duty Stamps are requested to make application in
writing to the Honorable the Commissioner of
Customs, Stamp Office, Wellington, stating Christian
and Surname, place of business, or residence, and
post town.
Distributors will be allowed a commission of two and
a-half per cent. on all purchases of adhesive stamps
of the aggregate amount of Five pounds and upwards.
Applications to purchase stamps should be made
at the Stamp Office of the Province (the office of the
Registrar of Deeds), by requisition, forms of which
can be obtained at the several Stamp Offices, and at
all Money Order Offices in the outdistricts of the
Colony.
C. T. BATKIN,
(for the Commissioner of Customs.)
Stamp Office, Wellington,
19th December, 1866.

STAMP DUTIES ACT, 1866.—It is notified for
general information that a Branch of the Stamp
Office will be opened in each Province at the office
of the Registrar of Deeds, for the affixing of Duties
Stamps on Deeds, and for the sale of adhesive
stamps.
At these offices adhesive stamps may be purchased
(on requisition) in quantities of the value of Two
pounds and upwards.
Stocks of adhesive stamps for sale, by retail, to the
public, will be deposited at the undermentioned Post
Offices:---

Province of Auckland.
Wangarei,
Russell,
Mongonui,
Port Waikato,
Raglan,
Tauranga,
Newcastle.

Province of Wellington.
Wanganui.

Province of Nelson.
Collingwood.

Province of Marlborough.
Havelock.

Province of Canterbury.
Lyttelton,
Kaiapoi,
Akaroa,
Timaru,
Hokitika,
Greymouth.

Province of Otago.
Waikouaiti,
Oamaru,
Hamilton,
Lawrence,
Queenstown.
Tokomairiro,
Port Chalmers,
Balclutha.

Province of Southland
Campbelltown, Riverton.
Licensed distributors will be appointed (without
fee) on application, and a commission at the rate of
two and a half per cent. will be allowed them on all
purchases of adhesive stamps of the aggregate
amount of Five pounds and upwards.
A commission at the same rate will be allowed to
all persons other than distributors, on purchases of
adhesive stamps of the aggregate value of Ten pounds
and upwards.
C. T. BATKIN,
(for the Commissioner of Customs.)
Stamp Office, Wellington,
19th December, 1866.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1866.
THE following sections of "The Crown Grants
Act, 1866," are published for general informa-
tion, and the attention of the public is particularly
directed thereto.
ALFRED DOMETT,
Secretary for Crown Lands.

XXXVII. There shall be paid to the Receiver of
Land Revenue or other officer appointed to receive
the same a fee of one pound upon Crown Grant of
lands not exceeding in amount one hundred acres
and upon every Crown Grant of land exceeding that
acreage an additional fee of one farthing for every
acre in excess of one hundred acres.

XXXIX. There shall be paid upon all grants to be
hereafter issued which may be left in the charge or
custody of any Commissioner of Crown Lands or
other officer charged with the delivery of the same a
fee of sixpence for every month during which they
shall have been so left after the expiration of three
months from the date of the notice in the Gazette of
the Province wherein the lands are situate that such
grants are ready for delivery.

XL. There shall be paid upon all grants issued
prior to the passing of this Act and left as aforesaid
in the custody of the officer charged with the delivery
thereof a fee of sixpence per month for every month
during which they shall be so left after two months
subsequent to the passing of this Act.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1866.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of the said Act is
published for general information :---
United Church of England and Ireland---
The Reverend G. P. BEAUMONT.
I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages, in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me, in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 9, of the 30th of January; No. 13, of
the 3rd March; No. 17, of the 24th March; No. 20,
of the 11th of April; No. 22, of the 24th of April;
No. 28, of the 14th of May; No. 34, of the 8th
of June; No. 36, of the 20th June; No. 41, of
the 6th July; No. 42, of the 19th of July; No. 46,
of the 15th August; No. 57, of the 31st October;
and No. 61, of the 27th November, in the present
year.
Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of December, 1866.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.