566

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Native Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1868.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
license
OLIVER M. CREAGH, Esq.,
to survey lands under "The Native Lands Act,
1865."
J. C. RICHMOND.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 26th November, 1868.
IT is hereby notified for general information that
the following officers will be appointed to
receive fees for licenses to be granted under "The
Distillation Act, 1868," to Brewers and Wine and
Spirit Merchants :-
The Collector of Customs at Auckland.
The Collector of Customs at New Plymouth.
The Collector of Customs at Napier.
The Collector of Customs at Wellington.
The Collector of Customs at Wanganui.
The Collector of Customs at Picton.
The Collector of Customs at Nelson.
The Officer in Charge of Customs at Westport.
The Collector of Customs at Greymouth.
The Collector of Customs at Hokitika.
The Collector of Customs at Lyttelton and Christ-
church.
The Sub-Collector of Customs at Timaru.
The Sub-Collector of Customs at Oamaru.
The Collector of Customs at Dunedin.
The Collector of Customs at Invercargill.
J. C. RICHMOND.

REPUBLISHED in pursuance of "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865."

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Henry Eyes, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Marl-
borough, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the 16th
July, 1867, the power has been delegated to me by
His Excellency the Governor, under the provisions
of "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,"
to declare infected districts, and from time to time
to make regulations for destroying diseased cattle
therein, and for prohibiting the removal of such
cattle:

Now therefore I, William Henry Eyes, Esquire,
by virtue of the powers delegated to and vested in
me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare
that, on and after the ninth day of December next,
all that district of the Province of Marlborough lying
between the Clarence River, the Conway River, the
seaward Kaikoura Range, and the Sea, shall be
deemed to be an infected district under "The
Diseased Cattle Act, 1861." And I further proclaim
and declare that any person removing cattle out of
the said district, as herein defined, shall be liable to
the penalties as fixed in the twelfth clause of the
said Act.

Given under my hand, and the Public Seal of
the Province, at Blenheim, this nineteenth
day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

W. H. EYES,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
J. B. WILLIAMS
(for Provincial Secretary).

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1868.
THE attention of the persons or person within the
Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested
ecclesiastical authority over any of the Religious
Bodies enumerated in "Schedule D." annexed to an
Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854," (as amended by
"The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1867,") and of
all other persons concerned, is requested to the fol-
lowing extracts from the Act aforesaid :----
Sec. 42.-"Any Minister of Religion whose name
shall have been sent in to the Registrar-
General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or
other officer to be appointed by the Governor
in that behalf, by the persons or person within
the Colony in whom ecclesiastical authority
shall for the time being be vested or reputed
to be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies
enumerated in the "Schedule D." to this Act
annexed, shall, subject to the conditions here-
inafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of this Act; and the name
of every such Minister of Religion shall be
certified under the hand or hands of the
person or persons aforesaid, and shall be
entered and published as hereinafter provided."
Sec. 44.-"The several ecclesiastical authorities as
aforesaid of the respective Religious Bodies
shall send in to the said Registrar-General or
other officer as aforesaid, a correct list of
such Officiating Ministers in the month of
December in every year."
The following are the Religious Bodies above
referred to:-
"The United Church of England and Ireland,"
"The Church of Scotland,"
"The Roman Catholic Church,"
"The Free Church of Scotland,"
"The Presbyterian Church of Otago and
Southland,"
"All Presbyterian Congregations,"
"The Wesleyan Methodist Society,"
"All Congregational Independents,"
"Baptists,"
"The Primitive Methodist Society,"
"The Lutheran Church,"
"All Hebrew Congregations,"
"The Society of Friends."

With respect to Ministers of Religion not con-
nected with any of the aforesaid bodies, it is provided
by the forty-second section of "The Marriage Act,
1854," and the second section of "The Marriage
Act Amendment Act, 1868," as follows :-
Sec. 42, Marriage Act, 1854.-"Provided always
that any Minister of Religion not connected
with any of the bodies enumerated in the
aforesaid Schedule to this Act annexed, who
shall present to any Registrar a certificate
signed by twenty-four householders resident
in the district for which such Registrar shall
be appointed, declaring that such Minister is
their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to
have his name inserted in the list of Officiating
Ministers in the meaning of this Act: Pro-
vided always that such certificate shall be
attested by two Justices of the Peace, and
such attested certificate shall be sent in to the
Registrar-General or other officer as aforesaid
anew in the month of December in every
year; and no such attested certificate pre-
sented to any Registrar by any Minister as
aforesaid shall continue in force unless renewed
in like manner."