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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
such district, and may create new districts. And
whereas by another Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "The County of Westland Act, 1867," a
portion of the territory comprised within the Deeds
Registration District, known as the Province of
Canterbury, has been separated from the Province of
Canterbury. And whereas it is expedient that the
aforesaid Deeds Registration District, comprising
the whole of the territory heretofore known as the
Province of Canterbury, should be divided into two
Registration Districts:

Now therefore, I, George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority vested in me
by the said recited Act, do hereby order that the
aforesaid Deeds Registration District shall, on and
after the first day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, be divided into two Regis-
tration Districts, for the purposes of the said
Ordinances and Acts. The one to be designated—

THE DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY,
and to comprise the territory included within the
boundaries of the Province of Canterbury, as the
said Province is now constituted. The other Regis-
tration District to be designated—

THE DISTRICT OF WESTLAND,
and to comprise the territory included within the
boundaries of the County of Westland, as the same
are defined in the Schedule to "The County of
Westland Act, 1867."

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

FURTHER RULES UNDER "THE NATIVE LANDS
ACT, 1865."

Approved this nineteenth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS it is enacted by "The Native Lands
Act, 1865," that it shall be lawful for the
Chief Judge of the Court, established by the said
Act, from time to time to make rules, and the same
from time to time to revoke or alter, for regulating
the sittings, practice, forms, and procedure of the
Court, and for the government of all surveyors and
other officers officially connected with the Court; and
all rules so made or altered, shall, when approved by
the Governor, have the same force and effect as if they
had been inserted in the said Act. And whereas
under the said recited power, certain rules were
made by me on the twenty-sixth day of January last,
and approved by the Governor on the twenty-eighth
day of March last, and it is expedient to alter one or
more of the rules so made, and to make other and
additional rules :

Now therefore, I, Francis Dart Fenton, Esq., the
Chief Judge of the said Court, in pursuance and
exercise of the said power and authority, do hereby
revoke the rule numbered fifty of the rules made as
hereinbefore recited, and do make the following rules
in lieu thereof:--

Transmission of Plan.

50. Immediately on the completion of a plan the
    surveyor shall transmit the same to the Chief Judge,
    or to the agent of the inspector of surveys appointed
    by him under "The Native Lands Act, 1867,"
    resident in the Province in which the land is situate,
    or otherwise, as the Chief Judge shall from time to
    time direct, and shall mark on the plan the date of
    such transmission.

51. The person who shall receive a plan under
    the preceding rule shall immediately give notice
    thereof to the chief surveyor of the Province in
    which the land is situate, and shall inform him where
    the plan may be inspected.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority, I do hereby make the following
rule, in addition to those already made as aforesaid:

VI.—Practice in Chambers.

The practice of the Chief Judge in Chambers shall
be the same as that of a judge of the Supreme Court
Sitting in Chambers, as nearly as circumstances will
admit.

Witness my hand this eleventh day of
January, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

F. D. FENTON,
Chief Judge, Native Lands Court.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieut.-
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Colony of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance
for the Regulation of Prisons," Sess. VII., No. 7, the
Governor is empowered from time to time to make
such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit,
touching the duties of the officers of any public gaol
—the classification, diet, instruction, treatment, and
correction of the prisoners therein, and generally to
prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the
good discipline of any public gaol, and the safe
custody of the prisoners therein, and it is by the said
Ordinance provided that, for the purpose of giving
effect to the rules and regulations hereby authorized
to be made by the Governor, it shall be lawful for the
Governor by any such regulations to enforce any
penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for any offence
against such rules and regulations to be recovered in
a summary way.

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly
of the said Colony, intituled "The Secondary
Punishment Act Amendment Act, 1863," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor from
time to time to make such rules and regulations
as to him shall seem meet; for the employment,
safe custody, management, and discipline of
convicts under sentence of penal servitude, and
to enforce the observance of such rules and
regulations, by solitary confinement, for any period
not exceeding one month at any one time, or
for three months in periods of one month at intervals
of at least one month each, by placing in irons,
whipping not exceeding fifty lashes at one time, by
imprisonment not exceeding twelve months in addi-
tion to the original sentence, and by such other
prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf:
Provided always that no rule or regulation awarding
any such punishment as aforesaid shall come into
operation until a copy thereof shall have been first
published in the New Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under and
by virtue of the provisions in the said Ordinance and
Acts respectively contained, do hereby make the fol-
lowing regulations for the purposes hereinbefore
recited, and do publish the same to be in force
within and with respect to the public gaols in
the Province of Nelson.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New