Numb. 58.

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
DIEU ET MON DROIT

533

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the second section of "The Stamp
Duties Acts Amendment Act, 1869," it is
enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette,
to proclaim and bring into operation the said Act, or
from time to time any parts thereof, at such time as
the Governor shall think fit, and that no part of the
said Act except the said second section shall come
into operation until such part shall be so proclaimed
and brought into operation as aforesaid, or until the
time fixed in the Proclamation for the coming into
operation thereof: And whereas it is by the said Act
further enacted, that, from and after such day as the
Governor shall appoint, there shall be levied, col-
lected, and paid for the use of Her Majesty, and to
form part of the ordinary revenue of New Zealand,
for and in respect of the several matters, instruments,
or things described or mentioned in the Schedule to
the said Act annexed, or for or in respect of the
parchment or paper upon which the same respectively
shall be written, the several duties or sums of money
in the said Schedule particularly mentioned, and that
from and after such day as the Governor shall appoint
the twenty-sixth section of "The Stamp Duties Act,
1866," shall apply to Bills drawn within the Colony
on and after such day, and payable at any place
within the Colony; and that, on and after such day as
the Governor shall appoint, the duties imposed upon
Bills of Exchange, Drafts, Orders, and Promissory
Notes, except as in the said Act mentioned, shall be
denoted by an impressed stamp only and not by an
adhesive stamp, and that the Stamp Duties now pay-
able upon Policies of Insurance shall, from and after
such day as the Governor shall appoint, cease and
determine:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and exer-
cise of the power vested in me by the said "Stamp
Duties Acts Amendment Act, 1869," do hereby
proclaim and bring into operation the whole of
the said Act, and do fix the first day of January,

one thousand eight hundred and seventy, as the
day upon which the said Act shall come into
operation. And I do also hereby appoint the
thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine, as the day from and after
which there shall be levied, collected, and paid the
several duties or sums of money in the said Act and
in the Schedule thereto particularly mentioned, and
from and after which the twenty-sixth section of
"The Stamp Duties Act, 1866," shall apply to Bills
drawn within the Colony, and from and after which
the Stamp Duties now payable upon Policies of
Insurance shall cease and determine. And I do
also hereby appoint the first day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, as the day on
and after which the duties upon Bills of Exchange,
Drafts, Orders, and Promissory Notes, shall be
denoted by an Impressed Stamp only, and not by
an Adhesive Stamp.

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; and issued at
Wellington, under the Seal of the said
Colony, this thirtieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, by warrant under his hand,
from time to time to appoint polling places for each
Electoral District, within or without the limits thereof,
and to appoint any one of such places to be the

ERRATA. - In Gazette, No. 47, 28th August, 1869, folio 444, for "John Conway Frew," read "John Conoway Frew." Also,
the Christian names of Ensign Hall should be "John William."