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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, on
Letters to the Colonies of Victoria, New South
Wales, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania:

Now therefore, in exercise of the said recited
power and authority, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council
thereof, do hereby alter the scale of progression
which postage is at present charged on Letters
posted in New Zealand for delivery either within the
Colony, or in Great Britain, or British Colonies or
Possessions, and do hereby also alter the present Rates
of Postage fixed to be paid within the Colony for the
transmission of Letters to the Colonies of Victoria,
New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, and
Tasmania, and do proclaim and declare that the scale
of progression by which postage shall in future be
charged shall be according to the Schedule A. here-
under written; and that the postage payable within
the Colony on Letters for the respective Colonies
of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia,
Queensland, and Tasmania, shall be according to
the Schedule B. hereunder written; and that such
postage shall in all cases be paid at the time such
Letters are delivered into the Post in New Zealand:
And I do further declare that this Proclamation shall
take effect on and after the first day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.

SCHEDULE A.

Scale of progression of charge for Postage on
Letters posted in New Zealand for delivery within
the Colony, or in Great Britain, or any British Colony
or Possession :—

Not exceeding half an ounce, one rate.
Exceeding half an ounce but not exceeding one
ounce, two rates.
Exceeding one ounce but not exceeding one ounce
and a half, three rates.
And so on for every additional half-ounce, or
fraction of half an ounce, one rate.

SCHEDULE B.

And so on, increasing 3d. for every additional half-
ounce or fraction of half an ounce.

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 saine; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
first day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy.

Approved in Council.

HENRY D. PIтт, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in
me by "The Arms Act Amendment Act, 1869,"
I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby appoint and
declare that the letter following, that is to say, "A,"
shall be the letter to be marked on all Arms registered
by in the District called "The Auckland South District,"
defined in a Proclamation bearing date the nineteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy, in pursuance of the provisions of the said
Act.

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 Auckland, this
nineteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

Approved in Council.

HENRY D. PITT, Capt., R.A.,
Private Secretary
(for Clerk of the Executive Council).

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Colony of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance
for the Regulation of Prisons," Session VII., No. 7,
the Governor is empowered from time to time to make
such rules and regulations as to him may seem fit
touching the duties of the officers of any public gaol;
the classification, diet, instruction, treatment, and
correction of the prisoners therein; and generally, to
prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the
good discipline of any public gaol, and the safe
custody of the prisoners therein: And whereas by
an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony,
intituled "The Secondary Punishment Act Amend-
ment Act, 1863," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time to make such
rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet for
the employment, safe custody, management and dis-
cipline of convicts under sentence of penal servitude,
and to enforce the observance of such rules and
regulations by solitary confinement for any period
not exceeding one month at any one time, or for
three months in periods of one month at intervals
of at least one month each, by placing in irons, by
whipping not exceeding fifty lashes at one time, by
imprisonment not exceeding twelve months in addi-
tion to the original sentence, and by such prison
discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf: Pro-
vided always that no rule or regulation awarding any
such punishment as aforesaid shall come into opera-
tion until a copy thereof shall first have been pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette :

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under and
by virtue of the provisions in the said Ordinance and
Act respectively contained, do hereby make the
following Regulations for the purposes hereinbefore
recited, and do publish the same to be in force
within the Province of Taranaki: And I do hereby
revoke all Regulations now in force in the Province
of Taranaki, heretofore made for the purposes herein-
before recited, or any of them.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand