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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the
Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth
and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Repre-
sentative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,"
it is amongst other things enacted, that whenever
any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superin-
tendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superin-
tendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an
authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the
Governor, at any time within three months after any
such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare
by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill; and
that any such disallowance shall make void and annul
the same from and after the day of the date of such
Proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named
therein:

And whereas the Acts hereinafter specified have
been enacted by the Superintendent of Auckland,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial
Council thereof, and the said Acts were received
by the Governor on the ninth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts
should be disallowed:

Now therefore I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Acts passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland,
namely:-

"The Auckland Rural Districts Act, 1869;"
"The City of Auckland Dog Nuisance Act, 1869;"
"The Thames Gold Fields Public Works Act, 1869."

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, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this fifth day
of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Petty Sessions Act, 1865,"
it is enacted that as soon as conveniently may
be after the establishment of a Petty Sessions
District, and afterwards from time to time as may be
deemed expedient, the Governor shall, by Proclamation
in the New Zealand Gazette, appoint a meeting of the
Justices of the Peace resident in such district to be
yearly held within such district, at some specified
time and place, for the purpose of choosing a Chair-
man of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attend-
ance: And whereas by an Order in Council bearing
date the thirty-first day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, a Petty Sessions Dis-
trict, hereinafter named, was defined and established:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of the power and authority in that behalf
vested in me, do hereby proclaim and appoint that for
the Warehama District a meeting of the Justices of
the Peace resident within such district shall be yearly
held at Nichols' Accommodation House, Tinui, at
twelve o'clock noon, on the fourth Tuesday in the
month of May, for the purpose of choosing a Chairman
of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of attendance.

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, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, at the Government House, at
Wellington; and issued under the Seal
of the said Colony, this second day of
April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!