Numb. 71.
661

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Auckland, this
fifteenth day of November, 1869.

Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand Settlements
Act Amendment Act, 1866," it is provided
that all lands taken under the authority of "The
New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or "The New
Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance
Act, 1865," or either of them, and sold and disposed of
under the authority of the said first recited Act,
entitled "The New Zealand Settlements Acts Amend-
ment Act, 1866," shall be sold or disposed of under
regulations to be made by the Governor in Council,
which regulations shall be published in the New
Zealand Gazette :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance of the authority vested in him in that
behalf by the said first recited Act, doth hereby, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony of New Zealand, make the following
Regulations for the leasing of lands which have been
taken under the authority of the said recited Acts
or either of them.

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR THE DISPOSAL OF
LANDS TAKEN FOR SETTLEMENT UNDER "THE
NEW ZEALAND SETTLEMENTS ACT, 1863."

It shall be competent for any Commissioner or
other person appointed by the Governor to adminis-
ter confiscated lands to offer for lease, for such term
and on such conditions as may from time to time be
defined by the Colonial Secretary, any land having
special value for the growing and manufacture of
flax (Phormium tenax).

HENRY D. PITT, Captain, R.A.
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING :

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "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 principal polling place for the district, and all or
any of such polling places at any time to abolish,
and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof:

And whereas by another Act of the General
Assembly, intituled "The Provincial Elections Act,
1858," it is enacted that, subject to certain pro-
visions therein contained, every election of the
Superintendent or of a Member of the Provincial
Council of a Province shall be conducted in the
manner prescribed by "The Regulation of Elections
Act, 1858," aforesaid, and the provisions of the said
last-mentioned Act shall apply to the elections of
Superintendents and Members of Provincial Councils:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said Acts,
do hereby appoint the following place to be an
additional polling place for the District of Oxford,
for the election of Superintendent and Members of
the Provincial Council of the Province of Canter-
bury, namely, —

The Cust School House.

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 Wel-
lington, this sixteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING : GREETING :
W HEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, W HEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "The Regulation of Elections intituled "The Regulation of Elections Act,