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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

applications which are made to them to supply to
the Colonial Governments the documents referred to
in the enclosed parcel of notices.
The Committee of Council has no supply of these
documents beyond a very limited number furnished
for strictly official purposes, and of which (as they
get out of print in time) it is indispensable to keep
a reserve from year to year.
The gratuitous distribution of these papers has
been stopped for some years in the United Kingdom,
and applicants receive in reply one of the enclosed
notices.
Their Lordships desire to suggest, for consideration,
whether it might not be desirable to circulate those
notices to the Colonies, which there is hardly reason
for treating more favourably than the mother country
in this respect. The papers would then be ordered,
in the ordinary course, through the Colonial Agents.

I have, &c.,
Sir F. Rogers,
Colonial Office.

R. R. W. LINGEN.

Committee of Council on Education,
Downing Street, London, S. W.,
January, 1868.

1. "The Revised Code" (1868), price 3\d., and
   the Instructions to Her Majesty's Inspectors thereon,
   price 1d., may be purchased, either directly, or
   through any bookseller, by means of his London
   agent, from

Messrs. Spottiswoode, Sale Office, House of Lords,
and East Harding Street, Fleet Street; or from
Mr. Hansard, at 32, Abingdon Street, West-
minster, and 13, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn
Fields; or from
Messrs. Longman, 39, Paternoster Row.
The Articles of the Code, and the paragraphs of the
Instructions, are referred to by number in official
correspondence.

2. "The Report (1867) of the Committee of
   Council to Her Majesty," containing the Revised
   Code, Tables, Annual Reports of Inspectors, &c.
   (838 pages), may be purchased from the same
   publishers, price 4s. 6d.
   None of the foregoing documents can be obtained
   from this Office, but only through the ordinary
   channels of purchase.

Downing Street,
25th June, 1868.

SIR, I have the honor to enclose a copy of an
Order of Her Majesty in Council, enforcing neutrality
upon British subjects during hostilities in Japan, and
I have to instruct you to give all due publicity to
this Order, and to guide yourself in accordance with
its requirements.

I have, &c.,
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR, THE 14TH DAY OF
MAY, 1868.

PRESENT
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS an Act of Parliament was passed in the
session of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's
reign, chapter ninety-four, "To remove doubts as to
the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty
within divers countries and places out of Her
Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more
effectual:"

And whereas by the said Act it was enacted,
amongst other things, that it was, and should be,
lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy
any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty then
had, or might at any time thereafter have, within any
country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in
the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty
had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession
or conquest of territory:

And whereas Her Majesty has had and now has,
by treaty, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means,
power and jurisdiction within the Japanese dominions:

And whereas Her Majesty has been pleased from
time to time, by and with the advice of Her Privy
Council, by Orders in Council, to make provision
for the exercise of Her Majesty's said power and
jurisdiction, and to ordain laws and ordinances for
the peace, order, and good government of Her
Majesty's subjects within the Japanese dominions, and
for the constitution of certain Courts for enforcing
obedience to such laws and ordinances:

And whereas hostilities have unhappily commenced
and are being carried on between the Mikado and
other belligerents within the Japanese dominions,
and whereas Her Majesty is at peace with the
Government of Japan, and whereas it has seemed to
Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy
Council, to be expedient for the peace, order, and
good government of Her Majesty's subjects, being
within the Japanese dominions, and for maintaining
a strict neutrality in such dominions during such
hostilities as aforesaid, to make and ordain such rules
and orders as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty is pleased, by and
with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and
it is hereby ordered, as follows:-If any British
subject shall, during such hostilities as aforesaid,
without the license of Her Majesty (proof whereof
shall lie on the party accused), take part in any
operation of war in the service of the Mikado, or of
any Power or person engaged in carrying on such
hostilities as aforesaid, or shall aid or abet any or
either of the contending parties in carrying on such
hostilities as aforesaid, by delivering or causing to be
delivered to them, or either of them, any ship or
vessel equipped, furnished, fitted out or armed with
intent or in order that such ship or vessel should be
employed in the military or naval service of either of
the said contending parties, against the other of such
contending parties, every person so offending shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction there-
of shall be liable (in the discretion of the Court
before which he is convicted) to be punished by
imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years
with or without hard labour, and with or without a
fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by a fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars without imprison-
ment.

And the Right Honorable Lord Stanley, one of
of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to
give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

ARTHUR HELPS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1868.

THE following Act passed by the Provincial
Council, and reserved by the Superintendent of
the Province of Nelson for the signification of the
Governor's pleasure thereon, intituled

"The Amuri Reserve Act,"

having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has been pleased to assent to the same.

E. W. STAFFORD.