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DIEU ET MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament
of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the
Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-first and
thirty-second years of the reign of Her Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria (a copy whereof is
set out in the Schedule to this Proclamation), pro-
vision was made for the appointment of Members of
the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and to
remove doubts in respect of past appointments:
And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should
be proclaimed in the Colony of New Zealand :

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority
for that purpose vested in me, do hereby proclaim
the said Act.

summon to the Legislative Council of the said Colony
such person or persons as Her Majesty shall think
fit, being qualified as therein is mentioned:
And whereas Her Majesty has, by divers instru-
ments under her Royal Sign Manual, authorized
successive Governors of the said Colony to summon
to the said Legislative Council, from time to time,
such person or persons, being qualified as aforesaid,
as the said Governors respectively should deem to
be prudent and discreet men:'
And whereas, in pursuance of the said Instruc-
tions, persons have, from time to time, been sum-
moned to the said Legislative Council by the
Governors of the said Colony:
And whereas doubts have arisen whether such
persons, not having been, previously to their being
so summoned, expressly named or appointed by Her
Majesty in any instrument under the Royal Sign
Manual, or otherwise, have been legally summoned
to the said Legislative Council, and become members
thereof; and it is expedient that such doubts should be
removed, and that fresh provision should be made for
the future appointment of Legislative Councillors in
the said Colony:

Be it 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:

1. So much of the said recited Act as is inconsis-
   tent with this Act is hereby repealed.
2. From and after the proclamation of this Act in
   the said Colony of New Zealand, it shall be lawful
   for the Governor of the said Colony, from time to
   time, in Her Majesty's name, by an instrument or
   instruments under the Public Seal of the said Colony,
   to summon to the said Legislative Council such
   person or persons as the said Governor shall think
   fit, either in addition to the present members of the
   said Council, or for supplying any vacancies which
   may take place therein by death or otherwise; and
   every person who shall be so summoned shall thereby
   become a member of the Legislative Council: Pro-
   vided always, that, unless otherwise determined by
   the Legislature of New Zealand, no person shall be
   summoned to such Legislative Council who shall not
   be of the full age of twenty-one years, and either a
   natural-born subject of Her Majesty, or a subject of

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 twenty-
seventh day of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

SCHEDULE.
31° AND 32° VICTORIE,
CAP. LVII.
An Act to make Provision for the Appointment of
Members of the Legislative Council of New Zealand,
and to remove Doubts in respect of past Appointments.
[13th July, 1868.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parlia-
ment holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
Her Majesty's reign, chapter seventy-two, intituled
"An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to
the Colony of New Zealand," it is (amongst other
things) enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her
Majesty, from time to time, by any instrument under
her Royal Sign Manual, to authorize the Governor to