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6. Every plan required to be deposited shall be
   drawn to a scale of not less than eight inches to a
   mile, and shall describe the line or situation of the
   work and the lands in or through which it is to be
   made, together with the proposed limits of deviation.

7. Before such Bill be read a first time, it shall be
   referred to a select committee of ten members (five
   to be a quorum), to be determined by ballot; which
   committee shall first inquire as to the compliance or
   otherwise with the Standing Orders relative to Bills
   authorizing the taking of lands compulsorily; and if
   such committee report to the Council that the
   Standing Orders have not been complied with, all
   further proceedings relating to such Bill shall be
   stayed: Provided always that no person shall be a
   member of such committee who shall have any direct
   pecuniary interest in the proposed undertaking.

8. Before it shall be read a first time, printed
   copies of such Bill shall be laid on the table three
   clear days for the use of each member of the Council.

9. When such Bill shall have been read a first
   time, it shall be again referred to the Select Com-
   mittee before appointed, to whom every petition
   against such Bill shall be referred, and who shall
   require proof of the allegations contained in the
   preamble.

10. The Select Committee may have counsel, if
    desired by any parties, before them, and may also
    hear such evidence as may be tendered, whether
    written or oral. If, after hearing the whole evidence,
    they shall decide that the preamble is not proved, no
    further proceedings shall be taken with reference to
    such Bill.

11. If the committee shall declare the preamble to
    be proved, then the committee shall proceed to con-
    sider the clauses of the Bill, and any amendments or
    new clauses that may be submitted to it: Provided
    that no clause be submitted to form part of the said
    Bill, or amendments added, which shall be foreign to
    the import of the notices hereinbefore required.

12. After such Bill has been brought up and
    reported by the Select Committee, due notice shall
    be given of its second reading, after which it shall go
    through committee of the whole Council.

13. Any solicitor, agent, or party interested in the
    passing of such Bill, may be heard at the bar of the
    Council prior to the second reading, or on going into
    committee of the Council on the Bill, on motion
    or notice.

Adopted by the Provincial Council, on Friday, the
nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

J. W. BARNICOAT, Speaker.

JNO. PERCY, Clerk to the Council.

Nelson and Marlborough, the County of Westland,
and the Provinces of Otago and Southland, should be
and the same were thereby constituted Wardens'
Courts, and did appoint certain Wardens of such
Courts :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and in further exercise of the power and
authority vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby
appoint

VINCENT PYKE, Esq.,

to be a Warden of the Wardens' Courts constituted
or ordered and declared to be constituted by the said
Order in Council of the twelfth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, with power
to act alone or with assessors, and in such manner as
by "The Gold Fields Act, 1868," or any Act
amending the same, is or may be provided, and to
exercise all such powers as in and by the said last-
mentioned Acts are or may be conferred, and which
the Governor has or may have power to direct so to
be exercised.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-second day of July, 1868.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor from time to time to constitute for any
Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens' Courts
for the administration of justice therein, and to
appoint Wardens of such Courts, as in the said Act
mentioned. And whereas by an Order in Council
bearing date the twelfth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight, His Excellency the
Governor did, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council, order that the several Wardens'
Courts theretofore constituted within the Provinces of

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-second day of July, 1868.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Institute Act,
1867," provision is made for the establishment
and incorporation of a public institution to be called
"The New Zealand Institute," and for the appoint-
ment and constitution of a Board of Governors for
the said institution. And whereas by the said Act
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council, from time to time, to make alter and
amend all such rules and Statutes as may be necessary
for the regulation and management of the said
Institute:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth
hereby with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, make the following rules and
Statutes for the regulation and management of the
said Institute, that is to say:-

1. The Governor for the time being of the Colony
   of New Zealand shall be the President of the said
   Board of Governors, and as such shall preside at all
   meetings of the said Board at which he shall be
   present.

2. In case of the absence of the President from
   any meeting of the Board of Governors, the
   Governors present at such meeting shall, before
   proceeding to other business, elect one of their
   number to be the chairman, who shall preside at
   such meeting in the absence of the President.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
twenty-second day of July, 1868.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Medical Practitioners Act,
1867," the Governor is authorized by Order
in Council, to nominate and appoint a Board, con-
sisting of not less than five nor more than ten