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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament
of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the
thirty-second year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled,
"An Act for amending the Law relating to the
Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British
Possessions" (a copy of which is hereunto annexed),
it is amongst other things enacted, that the said
Act shall be proclaimed in every British Possession
by the Governor thereof, as soon as may be after he
receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into
operation in that British Possession on the day of
such Proclamation:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
G.C.M.G., the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the power vested in me by the said Act,
do hereby proclaim 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 the Government
House, at Auckland; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this fourth
day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Preliminary.
Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant Ship-
   ping (Colonial) Act, 1869."

Definition of Terms.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise re-
quires, -
The term "British Possession" means any
territory or place situate within Her Majesty's
Dominions, and not forming part of the United
Kingdom, or of the Channel Islands, or Isle
of Man; and all territories and places under
one Legislature as hereinafter defined, are
deemed to be one British Possession for the
purposes of this Act:
The term "Legislature" includes any person or
persons who exercise legislative authority in
the British Possession; and where there are
local Legislatures as well as a central Legis-
lature, means the central Legislature only.

Commencement of Act.
3. This Act shall be proclaimed in every British
Possession by the Governor thereof, as soon as may
be after he receives notice of this Act, and shall come
into operation in that British Possession on the day
of such Proclamation, which day is hereinafter re-
ferred to as the commencement of this Act.

Coasting Trade.
Regulation of Coasting Trade by Colonial Legislature.
4. After the commencement of this Act the Legis-
lature of a British Possession, by any Act or Ordi-
nance, from time to time, may regulate the coasting
trade of that British Possession, subject in every
case to the following conditions :-
(1.) The Act or Ordinance shall contain a
suspending clause, providing that such Act or
Ordinance shall not come into operation until
Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been
publicly signified in the British Possession in
which it has been passed.
(2.) The Act or Ordinance shall treat all British
ships (including the ships of any British
Possession,) in exactly the same manner as

CHAP. XI.
An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting
Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions.
[13th May, 1861.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows: