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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
your property (or in your occupation), and that I
have this day paid to the Warden five pounds to
defray the expenses of survey.
A.B. &c., miner.
To E.F., owner (or occupier) of section

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
eighth day of July, 1868.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Tauranga District Lands
Act, 1867," after reciting that by an Order in
Council made the eighteenth day of May, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-five, and therein
referred to as a proclamation, it was declared that all
the lands of the tribe Ngaiterangi described in the
Schedule to the now reciting Act should be a district
within the provisions of "The New Zealand Settle-
ments Act, 1863," and should be designated by the
name "Tauranga District," therein mentioned or
referred to, and it was declared that the said lands
were required for the purposes of "The New Zealand
Settlements Act, 1863," aforesaid, and ordered that the
said lands should be and were thereby set apart as sites
for settlement and colonization, agreeably to the pro-
visions of the said Act, and that it was expressed to be
ordered that in accordance with the promise made by
His Excellency the Governor at Tauranga on the
sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four, three-fourths in quantity of the said lands
should be set apart for such persons of the tribe
Ngaiterangi as should be determined by the Governor
after due inquiry should have been made; it is enacted
and declared, amongst other things, that the whole
of the lands specified in the Schedule to the Act now
in recital were by the said Order in Council duly
and effectually declared to be a district within the
provisions of "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1864," and that the whole of the said land was duly
and effectually set apart, reserved, and taken under
the said Act as sites for settlements for colonization,
and was duly and effectually declared to be required
for the purposes of the said "New Zealand Settle-
ments Act, 1863," and to be subject to the provisions
thereof, and that for the purposes of the Act now in
recital the words "due inquiry" in the said Order in
Council should be deemed and taken to extend to
inquiries made and carried through by persons there-
unto appointed by the Governor. And whereas by
"The Commissioners' Powers Act, 1867," provision
is made for enabling boards or commissions appointed
by the Governor in Council to examine witnesses on
oath, to require the production of books, papers,
writings, deeds, and other documents, and to exercise
the powers and authorities in the said last-named Act
mentioned:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exer-
cise of the powers and authorities vested in me as
aforesaid, do hereby, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the Colony, appoint

HENRY TACY CLARKE,

of Tauranga, Esquire, to be a Commissioner to make
the inquiry required by the said Order in Council,
and by "The Tauranga District Lands Act, 1867,"
for the purpose of determining for what persons of
the tribe Ngaiterangi three-fourths in quantity of the
lands in the said Order in Council and in the Act
last aforesaid shall be set apart in pursuance of the
said Order in Council and "The Tauranga District
Lands Act, 1867," with all the powers and authorities
by "The Commissioners Powers Act, 1867," provided

in the case of any board or commission appointed or
issued or to be appointed or issued by the Governor
in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

STEPHEN LUNN MULLER, Esq.,
to be Principal Returning Officer for the Province of
Marlborough, vice J. L. Mellish, Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

DUNCAN GREY, Esq.,
to be Returning Officer for Provincial Elections for
the Districts of Tua Marina and Queen Charlotte's
Sound, in the Province of Marlborough, vice J. L.
Mellish, Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 10th July, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that the names of the following
gentlemen were accidentally omitted from the
Commission of the Peace published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the 6th instant, No. 38:—
CHARLES ROOKING CARTER, Esq., of Wellington;
WILLIAM FOX, Esq., of Rangitikei; and
SAMUEL GIBBS, Esq., of Oamaru.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 10th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JAMES BROUGH, Esq., of South Molyneux;
JAMES PATERSON, Esq., of Chrieblon, Toko-
mairiro; and
WILLIAM SEED, Esq., of Wellington,
to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 10th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermentioned persons to be
Clerks of the Resident Magistrates' Courts under
"The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867," at the places
set opposite their names :

FREDERIC DE CARTERET MALET, Christchurch,
vice BAIN, and
WILLIAM HENRY EYES, Blenheim, vice BARLEY-
MAN.
Mr. Eyes' appointment to date from the 15th
instant.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 10th July, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

STEPHEN LUNN MULLER, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar at Blenheim, of the Supreme
Court, from the 15th instant, vice Barleyman.

E. W. STAFFORD.