666
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

apprised of this decision. Some copies of the Trea-
sury Warrant are enclosed for transmission to the
Colonies.

I am, &c.,
FRANK IVES SCUDAMORE.
Sir F. Rogers, Bart., &c., &c.

TREASURY WARRANT.

WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the
fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter 96,
for the regulation of the duties of postage, power is
given to the Postmaster-General to remit any of the
rates of British postage for the time being payable
by law on the transmission of post letters, news-
papers, or other printed papers, to such extent as the
Lords of the Treasury shall from time to time direct;
and power is also given to the Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury, from time to time, by Warrant
under their hands, to alter and fix any of the rates
of British or inland postage payable by law on the
transmission by the post of Foreign or Colonial let-
ters or newspapers, or any other printed papers, and
to subject the same to rates of postage according to
the weight thereof, and a scale of weight to be con-
tained in such Warrant, and from time to time, by
Warrant as aforesaid, to alter or repeal any such
altered rates:

And whereas further powers were given to the
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by another
Act of Parliament passed in the eleventh year of the
reign of Her Majesty, chapter 85, for giving further
facilities for the transmission of letters by post, and
for the regulating the duties of postage thereon, and
for other purposes relating to the Post Office:

And whereas the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury have at various times, in pursuance and in
exercise of the powers so reserved and given to them
as aforesaid, by divers Warrants under their hands,
made and given certain regulations, orders, and
directions, whereby the several persons in such War-
rants respectively mentioned and described, being
commissioned and other officers employed in the
Military and Naval Services under Her Majesty,
respectively mentioned in the said several Warrants,
were authorized to send and receive letters trans-
mitted by the post between the several places therein
respectively mentioned, by the means and routes
therein respectively mentioned and set forth, at cer-
tain reduced rates of postage therein specified:

And whereas it is expedient that such Warrants
and such regulations, orders, directions, and rates of
postage therein contained should be altered, repealed,
and revoked, and that letters sent or received by such
persons respectively should be made subject to the
several rates of postage and regulations to which
ordinary letters of the public are liable in respect of
their transmission by the post:

Now we, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury, in exercise of the powers reserved to us in
and by the said two before-mentioned Acts, or either
of them, and of all other powers enabling us in this
behalf, do by this Warrant (under the hands of two
of us the said Commissioners, by the authority of the
statute in that case made and provided) order and
direct as follows:-

1. That the several Warrants dated respectively
   the 16th day of May, 1857, the 3rd day of October,
   1864, and the 27th day of September, 1867, and so
   much of the Warrant dated the 1st day of May,
   1868, as relates to or affects letters sent to or by
   Superintending or First-Class Schoolmasters in Her
   Majesty's Army, and also so much of every Treasury
   Warrant now in force as saves or exempts from the
   operation thereof letters sent to or by the several
   persons mentioned in the said Warrants of the 16th

day of May, 1857, the 3rd day of October, 1864, and
the 27th day of September, 1867, and Superintending
or First-Class Schoolmasters in Her Majesty's Army,
shall be and the same are and is hereby respectively
repealed revoked and annulled, and that from hence-
forth letters sent to or by such several persons
respectively shall be liable, in respect of the trans-
mission thereof by the post, to the same rates of
postage, and to the same regulations, orders, direc-
tions, conditions, and restrictions respectively as are
applicable to ordinary letters sent and received by
the post by the general public.
2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to
repeal, revoke, annul, or in anywise affect the
exemptions and privileges as to re-directed letters
granted by or under a certain Warrant dated the
22nd day of October, 1860, which said Warrant, and
everything therein contained, shall remain in full
force and effect.
3. The several terms and expressions used in this
Warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning
in all respects as they would have had if inserted in
the said firstly hereinbefore recited Act.
4. The Commissioners for the time being of Her
Majesty's Treasury may, by Warrant under their
hands, duly made at any time hereafter, alter, repeal,
or revoke any of the orders or directions hereby made,
and may make and establish other orders or directions
in lieu thereof.
5. This Warrant shall come into operation on the
first day of January, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the seventeenth
day of August, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.

JAMES STANSFELD, Jr.
W. P. ADAM.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 17th December, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ERNEST STEPHEN THYNNE, Esq.,
of Manawatu, Wellington;
THOMAS GEORGE MACARTHY, Esq., and
JOSEPH HENRY, Esq.,
of Charleston, Nelson; and
HENRY JOHN LE CREN, Esq.,
of Timaru, Canterbury, to be Justices of the Peace
for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 17th December, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
SETH SAM, Esq.,
of Shortland, Auckland, to be a Coroner for the Colony.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 17th December, 1869.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
WILLIAM CARR YOUNG, Esq.,
of Dunedin, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace.
W. GISBORNE.