THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 4, of the 29th of January; No. 5, of
the 8th of February; No. 15, of the 19th of March;
No. 16, of the 25th of March; No. 18, of the 1st of
April; No. 22, of the 17th of April; No. 23, of the
27th of April; No. 25, of the 13th of May; No. 31,
of the 3rd of June; No. 32, of the 11th of June;
No. 34, of the 26th of June; No. 37, of the 6th of
July; No. 42, of the 6th of August; No. 55, of the
20th of September; No. 57, of the 22nd of Sep-
tember; No. 60, of the 16th of October, and No.
68, of the 24th of November, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1869.

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 per-
son 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:---

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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 Officiat-
ing Ministers in the meaning of this Act:
Provided 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 re-
newed in like manner."

The provision printed in italics in the foregoing
extract has been amended as follows:---

Sec. 2, Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1868.-" So
much of the forty-second section of "The
Marriage Act, 1854," as provides that the
certificate in the said section referred to shall
be attested by two Justices of the Peace is
hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is
enacted that the signatures to any such cer-
tificate referred to in the said section of the
said Act shall be attested by some person who
shall verify the same by solemn declaration
before a Justice of the Peace in the form set
forth in the Schedule hereto, and appended to
such certificate, and signed by such person;
and if any person shall make any such
declaration falsely, he shall be guilty of a
misdemeanour."

"SCHEDULE.
"I A.B. do solemnly and sincerely declare that all
the signatures affixed to the above certificate
are the genuine signatures of the persons
whose they purport to be.

Taken before me this
A.D. 186
C.D.,
A.B.
day of
A. Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand."

I have therefore to request that, before the termi-
nation of the month of December next ensuing, the
Names of all Officiating Ministers be sent in to me,
duly certified, in order that such Names may be
entered in a List, a copy of which will be published
in the New Zealand Gazette, in the month of January,
1870.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.

N.B. It is requested that the Christian Names
and the Addresses of the several Ministers may be
specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

J. B. B.

SUPREME COURT-Regulæ Generales, 15th
November, 1869.-Touching the Examination
and Proof of Qualifications of Candidates for Ad-
mission as Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme
Court.

By virtue of the power conferred upon the Judges
of the Supreme Court by "The Law Practitioners
Act, 1861," and in pursuance of the provisions of
that Act, and of "The Law Practitioners Act, 1862,"
We, the Judges of the said Court, do hereby order
that the following addition to Rule 20 of the "Regulæ