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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1867.

G. GREY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS on the seventeenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty - seven,
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in pursuance of the
pursuance of the powers vested in Her Majesty by
the New Zealand Constitution Act, did by an Order,
with the advice of Her Majesty's Privy Council,
declare Her disallowance of a Bill passed by the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The
Indemnity Act, 1866."

Now therefore, I, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim, signify, and pub-
lish Her Majesty's disallowance of the said Bill,
together with a certificate under the hand and seal
of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State, certifying the day on which the said Bill was
received by the Secretary of State for Her Majesty.

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 Colony,
this fifteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[New Zealand—No. 28.]

SIR,—

Downing Street, 1st June, 1867.

In my Despatch No. 23, of the 15th ultimo,
I pointed out the reasons which had obliged me to
recommend Her Majesty to disallow the Bill of your
Government, No. 11 of 1866, entitled "An Act for
indemnifying persons acting in the Suppression of
the Native Insurrection."

I now transmit to you an Order of Her Majesty in
Council, declaring Her disallowance of the said Bill,
together with a certificate under my hand and seal
showing the date at which this Bill was received in
this Department.

I have, &c.,
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

Governor Sir George Grey, &c., &c.

At the Court, at Osborne House, Isle of Wight,
the 17th day of May, 1867.
Present:
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,
Lord President, Mr. Walpole,
Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Gathorne Hardy.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fifteenth and
sixteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled " An
Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things
enacted, that whenever any Bill which shall have
been presented for Her Majesty's assent to the
Governor of New Zealand, shall by such Governor
have been assented to in Her Majesty's name, the
Governor shall, by the first convenient opportunity,
transmit to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secre-
taries of State an authentic copy of such Bill so
assented to, and that it shall be lawful at any time
within two years after such Bill shall have been
received by the Secretary of State, for Her Majesty,
by Order in Council, to declare Her disallowance of
such Bill, and that such disallowance, together with
a certificate under the hand and seal of the Secretary
of State, certifying the day on which such Bill was
received as aforesaid being signified by the Governor
to the said Legislative Council and House of Repre-
sentatives by Speech or Message, or by Proclamation
in the Government Gazette shall make void and
annul the same from and after the day of such
signification:

And whereas on the 6th day of September, 1866,
the Governor of the said Colony assented in Her
Majesty's name to a Bill passed by the Legislative
Council and House of Representatives of the said
Colony, entitled "An Act for indemnifying persons
acting in the Suppression of the Native Insurrection"
(No. 11, of 30th Vict.), which Bill was received by