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sonal property of the crew, are stored or kept
therein.
(9.) If in any other respect the provisions of
this section are not observed with respect to
any such place in any ship the owner shall be
deemed to be in fault, and shall for every
failure to comply with the provisions of this
section incur a penalty not exceeding twenty
pounds.

Rules for medical inspection of seamen.
10. The following rules shall be observed with
respect to the medical inspection of seamen (that is
to say):—
(1.) At any port where there is a Local Marine
Board the Local Marine Board, and at other
ports in the United Kingdom the Board of
Trade, may appoint a medical inspector of
seamen.
(2.) Such medical inspector of seamen shall, on
application by the owner or master of any
ship, examine any seaman applying for
employment in such ship, and shall give to
the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine
Office a report under his hand stating whether
such seaman is in a fit state for duty at sea,
and a copy of such report shall be given to
the master or owner of the ship.
(3.) The master or owner applying for such
inspection shall pay to the Superintendent
such fees as the Board of Trade direct, and
such fees shall be paid into and form part of
the Mercantile Marine Fund.
(4.) The said medical inspectors shall be
remunerated for their services as the Board
of Trade may direct, and such remuneration
shall be paid out of the Mercantile Marine
Fund.
(5.) In British possessions out of the United
Kingdom the Governor or other officer
administering the Government for the time
being shall have the power of appointing
medical inspectors of seamen, of charging
fees for inspections when applied for, and of
determining the remuneration to be paid to
such inspectors.

Offences by British subjects on board ships.
11. If any British subject commits any crime or
offence on board any British ship, or on board any
foreign ship to which he does not belong, any Court
of Justice in Her Majesty's dominions, which would
have had cognizance of such crime or offence if com-
mitted on board a British ship within the limits of
the ordinary jurisdiction of such Court shall have
jurisdiction to hear and determine the case as if the
said crime or offence had been committed as last
aforesaid.

Harbour Master at Holyhead may be commissioned as Justice.
12. The Harbour Master for the time being of the
harbour of Holyhead in the event of its seeming
meet to Her Majesty to assign to him Her Majesty's
commission to act as a Justice of the Peace within
the limits within which he is empowered to act in
harbour matters shall, during the continuance of such
assignment and of his tenure of the office of harbour
master, execute within such limits the duties of a
Justice of the Peace, notwithstanding he may not be
qualified by estate to be a Justice of the Peace for a
county, and shall have within such limits the same
power and jurisdiction as a Stipendiary Magistrate
has by Act of Parliament when sitting at a Police
Court or other place appointed in that behalf.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1868.
THE following notification published by the Hon.
John Hall, in the County of Westland Gazette,
is republished for general information.

J. C. RICHMOND,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)
—

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury,
intituled " The Government Gazette Ordinance
Session I. No. 2," it is enacted that "there shall be
a Government Gazette for the Province, for the
publication of all Public and Official Acts, instruments
and notifications," and it is thereby also enacted that
"the Superintendent may cause the Government
Gazette to be printed and published at such times, by
such persons and generally in such manner as he shall
think fit, but nothing shall be printed or published
therein except by the direction of the Superinten-
dent," and it is thereby also enacted that "printed
copies of such Gazette published by, and in the name
of the authorized printers thereof for the time being,
shall be evidence in all Courts of the due publication
of everything therein contained, and such publication
shall be considered due notice to all persons affected
thereby, and sufficient justification to all persons
lawfully exercising any powers thereby publicly
notified to be vested in them."

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The County of Westland
Act, 1867," it is enacted that "that portion of the
Province of Canterbury described in the Schedule
thereto, shall be separated from and cease to be a
part of the said Province of Canterbury, and shall be,
and be called the County of Westland," and it is
also thereby enacted that "until other provisions
shall be made by the General Assembly or other
lawful authority, the laws and ordinances of the
Province of Canterbury in force within the said
County at the time of the coming into operation of
the said Act, shall remain in force within the said
County so far as the same are applicable," and it is
also thereby enacted that "all powers at the time of
the passing of the said Act, by law vested in the
Superintendent of the said Province shall within the
said County become vested in the Governor, provided
that the Governor in Council may from time to time
delegate all or any of the said powers to such person
or persons as he may think fit, and subject to such
limitations as he may think fit, and may in like
manner alter or revoke such delegations." And
whereas by an Order in Council dated at Wellington,
the eighth day of January, 1868, His Excellency the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said
recited power and authority, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony,
did by Order in Council delegate to me John Hall, a
member of the Executive Council of the said Colony,
within the County of Westland, all the powers
heretofore of the Superintendent of the said Province
of Canterbury, exercisable within the district
comprised in the said County:

Now therefore, I, the said John Hall, in pursuance
of the said recited Ordinance, Act, and authority, do
hereby declare that there shall be a Government
Gazette for the County of Westland, and that the
same shall be printed and published at Hokitika in
the said County at least once in each month, or
oftener if necessity shall require, and that James
Browne, and Joseph Philip Klein, of Revell Street, in
the said town of Hokitika, printers, shall be, and they
are hereby declared to be the authorized printers of
the said Gazette.