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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Marriage Act Amendment
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor at any time, by proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New
Zealand for the purposes of the said Act, into such
and so many districts as he shall think fit, and that
every such district shall be called by a distinct
name, and shall be a Registrar's district; and it is
provided that the Governor may at any time revoke
the whole or any part of such proclamation, and
issue a new proclamation dividing the Colony, or any
portion of it, anew into districts, or increasing the
number, or altering the boundaries of districts, as
from time to time he may think requisite. And
whereas by a proclamation, bearing date the sixth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
nine, duly made and issued, published in the New
Zealand Gazette, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance of the said power and authority did,
amongst other districts, constitute a district for the
purposes of the said Act, called "The Bay of Islands
District," the boundaries whereof were in the said
proclamation set forth. And whereas by a procla-
mation bearing date the eighteenth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, His
Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and in further
exercise of the power and authority vested in him
by the said Act, did revoke the proclamation of the
sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine, firstly hereinbefore mentioned, and did
proclaim and declare that the territory theretofore
comprised within the Bay of Islands District afore-
said, should be divided for the purposes of the said
Act into two districts, the names whereof should be
"The Bay of Islands District," and "The Waimate
District;" and the boundaries whereof are by the
said proclamation of the eighteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, respectively
defined and set forth. And His Excellency the
Governor did, by the said last-mentioned proclama-
tion further proclaim and declare that the same
proclamation should come into operation and take
effect on the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight. And whereas it is expedient
to revoke the said last-mentioned proclamation, and
to provide for the continuance, as well on and after
as before the said first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight, (so far as relates to
the territory in and by the said several proclamations
described or referred to,) of the division of the
Colony into districts for the purposes of the said
Act, subsisting at the date of this proclamation:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority vested in me by
"The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858," afore-
said, do hereby revoke the said proclamation of the
eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, and do proclaim and declare that the
territory comprised within the boundaries of the
district in the said proclamation of the sixth day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine
named the Bay of Islands District, including as
well the territory comprised within the boun-
daries of the Waimate District, as also the terri-
tory comprised within the boundaries of the Bay
of Islands District, as defined and set forth by the
said proclamation of the eighteenth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, shall be
and remain a district for the purposes of "The
Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858," to all intents
and purposes as if the said proclamation of the
eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, had not been made, and shall be
called

THE BAY OF ISLANDS DISTRICT,

and that the boundaries thereof shall be the boun-
daries of the Bay of Islands District, as the same are
defined and set forth in and by the said proclamation
of the sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine.

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
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Welling-
ton, this eighth day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!