THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 471

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
divers Letters Patent intended to take effect within
Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the
seas: And whereas doubts are entertained respecting
the period at which such Letters Patent have taken
or may hereafter take effect within such Colonies
and Possessions, and it is expedient that such doubts
should be removed:
aforesaid, abolish, and the boundaries thereof may
define or alter:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:-

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date
the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, certain districts, including
among others the Bay of Islands District, were con-
stituted and defined under the said Act, and it is
expedient to constitute two districts to comprise the
territory hitherto comprised within the District of
the Bay of Islands aforesaid:

Letters Patent not to take effect till published, &c., but acts
done under them valid.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
in him vested for this purpose, doth hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, order that the District of the Bay of Islands,
as the same is defined in the said recited Order in
Council of the twenty-second day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, shall, on
and from the fifteenth day of October next, be
and remain abolished, and doth hereby constitute the
Districts of the Bay of Islands and Waimate, as the
same are defined and described hereunder, to be, on
and from the said fifteenth day of October next,
Districts within and for which Courts of Petty
Sessions shall be held for the purposes of the said
Act.

1. No such Letters Patent heretofore made shall
   (unless otherwise provided therein, or by other
   lawful authority) be deemed to have taken or shall
   take effect in any such Colony or Possession as
   aforesaid until the same were or shall be publicly
   made known or acted upon therein: Provided that
   any act or thing heretofore done, or purporting to
   have been done, in pursuance or under authority of
   such Letters Patent, shall be as valid and effectual as
   if the same Letters Patent had taken effect at the
   date of the making thereof.

Bay of Islands District.

This district is to be bounded on the North by the
Harbour of the Bay of Islands from Tapeka Head to
Cape Brett; on the East by the sea, from Cape Brett
aforesaid to the south-eastern termination of the
northern boundary of the County of Marsden; on
the South by the northern boundary of the County
of Marsden aforesaid; and on the West by the
eastern boundary of the Waimate District, the Wai-
omio and Kawa-kawa Rivers, and the Harbour of the
Bay of Islands to Tapeka Head aforesaid, the point
of commencement.

Future Letters Patent not to take effect till publication.

Waimate District.

This district is to be bounded on the North-east by
the sea, from the eastern termination of the northern
boundary of the Native Reserve called Taupo to the
North Head of the Harbour of the Bay of Islands;
on the East by the Harbour of the Bay of Islands
aforesaid, the Kawa-kawa and Waiomio Rivers, and
the western boundary of the County of Bedford to
the northern boundary of the County of Marsden ;
on the South by the northern boundary of the County
of Marsden aforesaid to Kohatu Point; and on the
West by the sea from Kohatu Point aforesaid to the
North Head of the Herekino Harbour; and on the
North by the southern boundary of the County of
Mangonui to the eastern termination of the northern
boundary of the Native Reserve called Taupo, the
point of commencement.

2. No such Letters Patent hereafter to be made
   shall (unless otherwise provided therein, or by other
   lawful authority) take effect in any such Colony or
   Possession until the making of the same shall have
   been signified therein by Proclamation or other
   public notice.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointments by Letters Patent to be void unless published
within six or nine months.

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

3. Any such Letters Patent by which any person
   may be hereafter appointed to any office or employ-
   ment within any of such Colonies or Possessions
   shall (unless otherwise provided therein, or by other
   lawful authority) become null and void in respect
   of such Colony, unless the same shall be so signified
   as aforesaid within the following period—that is to
   say, within nine calendar months in case such
   Colony or Possession shall be to the eastward of
   Bengal in the East Indies, or to the west of Cape
   Horn in South America; or, in any other case,
   within six months after the making thereof.

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

9 and 10 Vict., c. 91, repealed.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

4. The Act, chapter ninety-one, of the ninth and
   tenth years of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to
   continue certain Patent Commissions until the
   Exhibition of the Commissions revoking them," is
   hereby repealed.

W
HEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that the Governor from time to
time, by Order in Council, whereof notice shall be
published in the New Zealand Gazette, may constitute
and define districts within and for which the said
Courts respectively shall be held, and such districts
or any of them may from time to time in manner
aforesaid abolish, and the boundaries thereof may
define or alter:

Period of Act coming into operation.

5. This Act shall take effect in each of Her
   Majesty's Colonies and Possessions so soon as the
   same shall be proclaimed therein by the Officer
   administering the Government thereof.