Numb. 52.
461

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Procla-
mation in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare that
from a day to be in such Proclamation fixed, sections
one hundred and five to one hundred and fifteen, both
inclusive, having special reference to persons of the
Native race, or such of those sections as shall be in
such Proclamation specified, shall come into operation
in such districts of the Colony as shall be in such
Proclamation specified, and until so proclaimed, and
in places not included in any such district, such
sections shall not be in force, and by like Proclamation
to alter or re-define such districts or cancel any
Proclamation so declaring such sections or any of
them to have come into force:

And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the
twelfth day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, sections one hundred and five, one
hundred and six, one hundred and seven, one hundred
and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred and
ten, one hundred and eleven, one hundred and twelve,
and one hundred and thirteen of "The Resident
Magistrates Act, 1867," having special reference to
persons of the Maori race, were, from and after a
date in the said Proclamation named, brought into
operation within certain districts therein defined, and
amongst others within so much of the district pro-
claimed under the said Act by a Proclamation bearing
date the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, as the "New Plymouth
District," as lies beyond ten miles from the Court
House at New Plymouth: And whereas it is expe-
dient to bring into operation within so much of the
said district as lies within the said radius of ten
miles from the said Court House the said sections of
the said Act, having special reference to persons of
the Maori race, numbered from one hundred and five
to one hundred and thirteen, both inclusive:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority in
me vested in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and
declare that, from and after the first day of
October next, the sections numbered from one
hundred and five to one hundred and thirteen, both
inclusive, of "The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,"
shall come into operation within the whole of the
said District of New Plymouth, not only so much as
lies beyond the radius of ten miles from the said
Court House, but also within so much as lies within
the said radius.

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, at the
Government House, at Wellington, and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
this twentieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of September, 1870.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867," it is enacted that if any
title to or interest in any hereditaments shall accrue
to any Maoris who, or any of whom, shall be infants,
lunatics, or under legal disability, it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, if he think fit, to order
that such hereditaments, or any part thereof, or
interest therein, as shall to the Governor in Council
be shown to belong to such infant, lunatic, or other
person under legal disability, shall be vested in
trustees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit: