THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 565

And it is Our further will and pleasure that you,
from time to time as you may think fit, report to Us
what you have done in the premises, together with
such recommendation in relation to the premises as
you may think fit to make.

In testimony whereof We have caused these Our
Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of Our
said Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved 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 Our Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same; and issued under the Seal
of the said Colony, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy, and in the thirty-fourth year
of Our reign.

DONALD MCLEAN,
Presiding.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

To the Honorable Thomas Fraser, a Member
of the Legislative Council, Alfred Rowland
Chetham Strode, Esquire, and William Alex-
ander Tolmie, Esquire—Greeting:

WHEREAS one Anne Morris, of Otago Penin-
sula, in the Province of Otago and Colony of
New Zealand, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, presented a petition to the
House of Representatives of the said Colony, praying
that investigation may be made into the conduct of
William Henry Cutten, Esquire, the late Com-
missioner of Crown Lands in Otago, with reference
to the wrongful issue of a Crown Grant of certain
section of land purchased by her husband: And
whereas the said House of Representatives, having
taken into consideration the said petition, did, on
the eighteenth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy, resolve that the Government
be recommended to appoint an unpaid Commission
during the recess to examine into and report on the
case of the said Anne Morris:

Now know ye that, reposing especial trust and
confidence in your ability, I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of the said Colony, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof,
do by these presents authorize and appoint you, the
said

THOMAS FRASER,
ALFRED ROWLAND CHETHAM STRODE, and
WILLIAM ALEXANDER TOLMIE,

to be Commissioners to inquire into the matters
alleged in the said Petition, and to report your
several proceedings and opinion touching the pre-
mises; and with the like advice and consent I do
enjoin you, within three calendar months after the
date of this Commission, or so much sooner as the
same can conveniently be done (using all diligence),
to certify to me, under your hands and seals, your
several proceedings and your opinion touching the
premises: And I do, with the like advice and consent,
order that this Commission shall continue in force,
and that you the said Commissioners, or any one or
more of you, may proceed in the execution thereof
from time to time, and at any place or places, although
the same be not continued by adjournment.

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 under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this nineteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
W. GISBORNE.

DONALD MCLEAN,
Presiding.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
twenty-sixth day of October, 1870.

Present:

THE HONORABLE WM. FOX, THE PREMIER, PRESIDING,
AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Stamp Duties Act, 1866,"
it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order
in Council, from time to time frame all such regu-
lations and forms as may be necessary for carrying
out the provisions of the said Act:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony, in pursuance and exercise of
the above-recited power and authority, doth hereby
make the Regulation contained in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In lieu of the Form of Affidavit marked "F"
referred to in the seventeenth of the Regulations
made under the power aforesaid, on the fourth day of
February, 1867, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the twenty-second day of the same month,
the forms in the Appendix hereto, marked "F" and
"FA" respectively, shall be used.

WILLIAM FOX, Premier,
Presiding.

HENRY SEWELL.

(F.)

Affidavit or Affirmation to be made to obtain Allow-
ance of Spoiled Bill and Note Stamps.

Deponent must
state here his
name, address,
and description.

Where affirma- maketh oath and saith, that the several
tion made, this
form can be so Stamps hereinafter specified and de-
altered.
scribed, that is to say, —

are the property of this Deponent, and
were purchased by or for use, and
that paid or now stands indebted for, and
really and truly liable to pay, the full
amount, or value thereof.

Paper not writ- And with regard to such of the sheets
ten upon. or pieces of paper on which the said
Stamps are affixed or impressed as are not written
upon, this Deponent saith that the same have been
inadvertently and undesignedly spoiled and rendered
unfit for use.