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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time by procla-
mation in the New Zealand Gazette to declare that
from a day to be in such proclamation fixed, sections
one hundred and five to one hundred and fifteen, both
inclusive, having special reference to persons of the
Native race, or such of those sections as shall be in
such proclamation specified, shall come into operation
in such districts of the Colony as shall be in such
proclamation specified, and until so proclaimed, and
in places not included in any such district, such
sections shall not be in force, and by like proclamation
to alter or re-define such districts or cancel any
proclamation so declaring such sections or any of
them to have come into force:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority in
me vested in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and
declare that from and after the seventh day of March
next, sections one hundred and five, one hundred and
six, one hundred and seven, one hundred and eight, one
hundred and nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred
and eleven, one hundred and twelve, and one hundred
and thirteen, of "The Resident Magistrates Act,
1867," having special reference to persons of the
Native race, shall come into operation within the
following Resident Magistrates' districts, as the
same are defined in a proclamation bearing date
the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven-

The Mongonui District,
The Bay of Islands District,
The Whangarei District,
The Kaipara District,
The Auckland District, northwards of the Wai-
temata,
The Coromandel District,
The Hauraki District,
The Waikato District,
The Raglan District,
The Tauranga District,

The Maketu District,
The Opotiki District,
The Taupo District,
The Waiapu District,
The Waipukurau District,
The Napier District,
The New Plymouth District, beyond ten miles
from the Court House,
The Upper Wanganui District,
The Wanganui District.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me in this behalf I do
hereby proclaim and declare that the one hundred
and seventh, one hundred and eighth, one hundred
and ninth, one hundred and tenth, one hundred and
twelfth, and one hundred and thirteenth sections of
said Act shall, from the seventh day of March
next, come into operation within the other Resident
Magistrates' districts mentioned in the said procla-
mation of the twenty-ninth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at the
Government House, at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this twelfth day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1868.

THE following Bill, passed by the Provincial
Council, and assented to by the Superintendent
of the Province of Auckland, intituled-
"The Gunpowder Regulation Act, 1867,"
having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency
has not been advised to exercise his power of
disallowance in respect of it.

E. W. STAFFORD.