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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

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
subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter specified
have been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Ordinances were received by the
Governor on the twenty-first day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordi-
nances 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 Ordinances passed by the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
namely:---

"The Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed
Interest Ordinance, 1865, Extension and
Amendment Ordinance, 1866."

"The Port Chalmers Town Board Ordinance
Repeal Ordinance, 1866."

"The Oamaru Town Board Ordinance, 1862,
Repeal Ordinance, 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, and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at
Wellington, this twentieth day of March,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

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 Repre-
sentative 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
Superintendant 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 Ordinances hereinafter specified
have been enacted by the Superintendent of Canter-
bury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial
Council thereof, and the said Ordinances were received
by the Governor on the eighteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordi-
nances 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