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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and taken to mean "The New Zealand Settlements
Act, 1863;" "The New Zealand Settlements Amend-
ment Act, 1864;" "The New Zealand Settlements
Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865;" and "The
New Zealand Settlements Acts Amendment Act,
1866," or any or either of them.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, the
eighteenth day of March, 1868.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "The New Zealand Post Office Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time by pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter,
and abolish the rates of postage at any time payable
within the Colony, for the transmission of letters by
post either between places within New Zealand, or to
or from places beyond seas, and at what time the
same shall be paid, and the postage so made payable
shall be charged and paid accordingly. And it is also
by the said Act enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to make rules
and regulations for the managing of the several post
offices, and for the conduct of post officers. And
whereas by "The New Zealand Post Office Act
Amendment Act, 1866," it is provided that certain
postage shall be levied upon newspapers posted
within the Colony, and by the said last-mentioned
Act it is provided that every copy of a paper con-
taining any public news or occurrences, or any
remarks or observations thereon, or any political
matter, or containing only or principally advertise-
ments, and printed for sale or gratuitous distribution,
may be sent by post as a newspaper if it shall be
periodically published in parts or numbers at intervals
not exceeding one month. And whereas by "The
New Zealand Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1866"
(No. 2), it is provided that the power conferred by
"The New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858," on the
Governor in Council, to fix alter and abolish rates
of postage, and to make rules for regulating post
office services, shall not be deemed to be limited
altered or affected by "The New Zealand Post Office
Act Amendment Act, 1866," subject however to the
proviso in "The Post Office Act Amendment Act,
1866" (No. 2), mentioned. And whereas it is
expedient that the New Zealand Gazette printed and
published under the authority of the New Zealand
Government should not be treated as a newspaper,
but should be exempt from postage. And whereas
it is also expedient that the several Gazettes printed
and published under the authority of Superintendents
of Provinces, and the Gazette printed and published
in and for the County of Westland under the
authority of the Governor or his delegate, should
respectively be exempt from postage:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, Governor of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling
him in this behalf, and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth
hereby order that the printed papers mentioned
in the Schedule hereto shall be allowed to pass
through all Post Offices in New Zealand free of
postage, if enclosed in a paper wrapper open at each
end, having written or printed on such wrapper in
legible characters the words following, that is to say
"Exempt from Postage, being a Government
Gazette."

SCHEDULE.
Name of Gazette.
"The New Zealand Gazette."
"The Auckland Provincial Government Gazette."
"The New Zealand Government Gazette, Province
of Taranaki."
"The Government Gazette, Province of Hawke's
Bay."
"The Government Gazette, Province of Welling-
ton."
"The New Zealand Government Gazette, Province
of Nelson."
"The Government Gazette, Province of Marl-
borough."
"The New Zealand Government Gazette, Province
of Canterbury."
"The Otago Provincial Government Gazette."
"The Southland Provincial Government Gazette."
"The County of Westland Gazette."

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, the
eighteenth day of March, 1868.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Marine Act, 1867," it is
enacted that the Governor may, by Order in
Council, from time to time delegate all or any of the
powers and authorities vested in him by the said
Act unto any person or persons, for any period, and
subject to any regulations, restrictions, or stipu-
lations which may be specified in such Order, and
every such delegation may from time to time alter
or revoke, and also that any such delegation may be
so made to any person holding office in or under the
General Government of New Zealand, or in or
under any Provincial Government thereof, by the
title of his office, and may be therein expressed to
be made to such officer and his successors in such
office, and when so expressed to be made, the powers
and authorities thereby delegated shall from time to
time, until revocation thereof, be held and exercised
only by the person for the time being holding such
office and no other person:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, doth hereby delegate unto
The COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS,
at the Port of Hokitika, in the County of Westland,
and his successors in office, the powers conferred on
the Governor by section eighteen of the said Act to
exempt from pilotage such Colonial trading vessels
as to such Collector for the time being shall seem
proper to be so exempted, in all cases in which such
vessels require to be exempted for the ports of the
said County only; the fees for any pilotage exemp-
tions to be accounted for and treated as pilotage
dues.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

BY virtue of the powers in me vested by "The
Deeds Registration Amendment Act, 1863," I
hereby make the following regulations for the practice
and procedure of the several Register of Deeds
Offices throughout the Colony, to take effect on and
after the first day of April, 1868.

1. Where any deed or other instrument received
   for registration is indorsed or otherwise written upon
   or annexed unto some previously registered deed or
   instrument and purports to affect the hereditaments