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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

existence of a Will, and intention to prove the
same, or to take out Letters of Administration,
be not given to the Chief Postmaster of the
Province, at his Chief Office, within the period
of one month from the death of the Depositor;
or if such notice be given, but such Will be not
proved, or Letters of Administration be not taken
out, and the Probate or Letters of Administration
(as the case may be) produced to the Chief
Postmaster of the Province within the period
of two months from the death of the Depositor,
it shall be lawful for the Postmaster-General,
after such period of one or two months, as the
case may be, to pay all just debts due or owing
by such deceased Depositor, and to defray the
expenses of his funeral, so far as the said sum
of money shall extend, and divide the surplus,
if any, at his discretion to or amongst the
widow or relatives of the deceased Depositor, or
any one or more of them; or if he shall think
proper, according to the Statute of Distributions.

17. In case any Depositor shall die leaving any
    sum of money in the Post Office Savings Bank
    which (inclusive of interest) shall exceed the sum
    of Twenty Pounds, the same shall only be paid
    to the Executor or Administrator on the produc-
    tion of the Probate of the Will, or Letters of
    Administration of the estate or effects of the
    deceased Depositor, to the Chief Postmaster of
    the Province.

18. If any Depositor, being illegitimate, shall
    die intestate, leaving any person or persons who,
    but for the illegitimacy of such Depositor, and
    of such person or persons, would be entitled to
    the money due to such deceased Depositor, it
    shall be lawful for the Postmaster-General,
    with the authority in writing of the Attorney-
    General or Law Adviser of the Crown, to pay
    the money of such deceased Depositor to any
    one or more of the persons who in his opinion
    would have been entitled to the same according
    to the Statute of Distributions, if the said
    Depositor and such person or persons had been
    legitimate.

19. If any Depositor shall become insane, or
    otherwise incapacitated to act, and the same shall
    be proved to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-
    General, and if the Postmaster-General shall be
    satisfied of the urgency of the case, he may
    authorize payment, from time to time, out of the
    funds of such Depositor, to any person whom he
    shall judge proper, and the receipt of such
    person shall be a good discharge for the same.

20. If dispute shall arise between the
    Postmaster-General and any individual Depositor,
    or any executor, administrator, next of kin, or
    creditor or assignee of a Depositor who may
    become bankrupt or insolvent, or any person
    claiming to be such executor, administrator, next
    of kin, creditor or assignee, or to be entitled to
    any money deposited in the Post Office Savings
    Bank, then and in every such case the matter in
    dispute shall be referred to arbitration, as provided
    in "Savings Bank Act, 1858," one arbitrator
    to be chosen and appointed by the Postmaster-
    General and the other by the party with whom
    the dispute arose.

21. When a Depositor applies for payment
    of the balance of money deposited, and of
    interest, and desires the account to be closed,
    the Deposit Book must be given up. Should a
    new account be afterwards opened, it will be
    necessary that a new Deposit Book be issued
    and that the other regulations should be strictly
    conformed to.

22. The Officers of the Postmaster-General
    engaged in the receipt or payment of deposits
    shall not disclose the name of any Depositor, nor
    the amount deposited or withdrawn by him, except
    to the Postmaster-General, or to such of his
    Officers as may be appointed to assist in
    carrying out the provisions of the Post Office
    Savings Banks Act.

23. In the construction of these Regulations,
    unless there is something in the subject or
    context repugnant thereto, every word importing
    the singular number only shall mean and include
    several persons or things, as well as one person
    or thing and the converse; and every word
    importing the masculine gender only shall mean
    and include a female as well as a male; and the
    word month shall refer to a calendar and not a
    lunar month.

Approved this 29th day of October, 1866, pur-
suant to "The Post Office Savings Bank Act,
1865."

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Colonial Treasurer.
JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

Wellington, 29th October, 1866.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Esq.,
JAMES BABER, Esq.,
CHARLES A. WRAY, Esq.,
GEORGE AILLEN PRITCHARD, Esq., and
HARRY CHARLES WILLIAM WRIGG, Esq.,
to be Surveyors under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

J. C. RICHMOND.

Native Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

HARE WIRIKAKA,
to be an Assessor under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."

J. C. RICHMOND.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Office,
Wellington, 28th December, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Crown Grants have
been prepared in favor of the undermentioned
Claimants under "The New Zealand Company's
Land Claimants Ordinance," and are now lying in
the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, ready
for delivery, upon the production of an authority
duly qualifying the applicant to receive them.—
Further, that the fee imposed by "The Crown
Grants Act, 1866," upon Grants not taken up will
in future be charged in all cases.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Claimant, and Land claimed.
Alexander Farmer, part of town acre No. 134,
Wellington.