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hearing of appeals to the owner of the rateable pro-
perty alleged to have been omitted or assessed below
its fair annual value, as the case may be.
11. Appeals against assessment shall be brought
before the Board, and may be heard and determined
by the Board at a meeting to be held for that pur-
pose, at the place and time mentioned in the notice
by section five of these regulations required to be
given as aforesaid, or at any adjournment of such
meeting; and the order in which such appeals shall be
heard shall be the order in which the notices of such
appeals shall have been given to the Clerk of the
Board. And upon the decision of the Board in regard
to any such appeal the assessment shall be altered
or amended as may be required, in accordance with
such decision.
12. No general or special rate to be levied in any
one year shall exceed one shilling in the pound on the
assessed value of the properties rated.
13. No lands or buildings or other property used
by the Government for any public purpose, nor any
hospital, lunatic asylum, benevolent institution, or
building used exclusively for public purposes, nor any
church, chapel, or school, shall be liable to be rated.
14. If there be no notice of appeal against the
assessment served upon the Clerk of the Board
within the time hereinbefore limited for giving
notice of appeals, the Chairman and the Secretary
shall forthwith sign the rate-book. If any notice or
notices of appeal shall have been so served, the rate-
book shall be signed upon the decision by the Board
of such appeal or appeals; and so soon as the rate-
book has been signed by the Chairman and Secretary
of the Board, the rate may forthwith be collected.
15. For the purpose of collecting the rates the
Board shall appoint a collector, who may be a member
of the Board.

SCHEDULE A.

An Assessment to the rate made this
day of , in the year of our Lord 18 , after
the rate of pence in the pound, under the
Regulations made by the Governor in Council on
day of , 186 , and published in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. , dated

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

At the Government House, at Wellington,
the ninth day of September, 1868.

Present:

His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled " The Native
Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," it is amongst other
things provided that where, under the provisions of
"The Native Reserves Act, 1856," the assent of the
aboriginal inhabitants is required to bringing land
under the operation of the said "Native Reserves
Act, 1856," the Governor may, by Order in Council,
declare such assent to have been ascertained, and
thereupon the title to which the same shall relate shall be
deemed to be extinguished, and the lands shall, from
the date of such Order in Council, vest in Her
Majesty, for the purposes and subject to the
provisions of the said "Native Reserves Act, 1856,"
as attested by the recited Act, and that as effectually
as if the same had been ceded and conveyed by such
aboriginal inhabitants to Her Majesty :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby declare that the assent of the
aboriginal inhabitants to the bringing the piece of
land described in the Schedule hereunder written
under the operation of "The Native Reserves Act,
1856," has been ascertained.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land situate in the Fitzroy Block,
Taranaki, bounded towards the North by a roadway
three thousand two hundred and twenty (3,220)
links; towards the East by a roadway three thousand
one hundred and forty-five (3,145) links; towards
the South by allotment No. 9, one thousand six
hundred and ten (1,610) links; and by allotment No.
18, one thousand six hundred and ten (1,610)
links; and towards the West by allotment No. 9,
one thousand five hundred and fifty-seven (1,557)
links; and by a roadway one thousand five hundred
and eighty-eight (1,588) links.

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

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
sixteenth day of September, 1868.
Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Waste Lands Act, 1858,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council at any time, and from time to
time, to except from sale and reserve unto Her
Majesty, or dispose of in such manner as for the
public interest may seem best, such of the waste
lands of the Crown in any of the Provinces of New
Zealand as may be required for the purpose of
military defence, or for the construction of trunk
lines of road, or as sites for public buildings for the
use of the General Government, or for other
purposes of public utility or convenience :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, doth hereby except from sale, and
reserve to the use of Her Majesty, as a site for light-
house or other purposes of the General Government,
the parcel of land described in the Schedule
hereunder written.

And His Excellency the Governor doth hereby
notify to the Superintendent of the Province of
Nelson that the land defined in the Schedule hereto
has been reserved in terms of the Act before cited.

SCHEDULE.
PROVINCE OF NELSON.
Farewell Spit.

Six hundred (600) acres, more or less, situated at
the extremity of Farewell Spit; bounded towards
the North-east and South-west by high-water line, on
the shores of the said Spit; and towards the West-
north-west by a line drawn at right angles to a line
bearing West-north-west from Bush End Point, and
distant therefrom sixteen thousand (16,000) links;
together with a road one chain wide along the whole
length of the said Spit, in order to render the said
reserve available.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.