THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 615

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,
the 17th day of August, 1870.
Present:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Naturalization Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that where Her Majesty has entered
into a Convention with any Foreign State to
the effect that the subjects or citizens of that State
who have been naturalized as British subjects may
divest themselves of their status as such subjects, it
shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council,
to declare that such Convention has been entered
into by Her Majesty; and from and after the date
of such Order in Council any person being origi-
nally a subject or citizen of the State referred to in
such Order, who has been naturalized as a British
subject, may, within such limit of time as may be
provided in the Convention, make a declaration of
alienage, and from and after the date of his so making
such declaration, such person shall be regarded as an
alien, and as a subject of the State to which he
originally belonged as aforesaid: And whereas on
or about the 13th day of May last past, a Con-
vention between Her Majesty and the President of
the United States of America, was duly signed at
London, the ratifications whereof were duly ex-
changed at London, the 10th day of August instant,
whereby the subjects or citizens of the United States
of America, who have been naturalized as British
subjects, are at liberty to renounce their natural-
ization and divest themselves of their status as such
British subjects, provided that such renunciation be
publicly declared within two years after the exchange
of the Ratifications of the said Convention:-Now
therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of
Her Privy Council, doth hereby declare that Her
Majesty has entered into a Convention with the said
United States of America, to the effect that the
subjects or citizens of those States who have been
naturalized as British subjects may divest themselves
of their status as such subjects.
(Signed) ARTHUR HELPS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Captain ROBERT SCOTT MACHELL,
late 62nd Regiment, to be Assistant Private Secretary
and Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency, vice Capt.
A. M. Smith, resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1870.
IT is hereby notified, that
AMELIUS MORLAND SMITH, Esq.,
has been appointed Record Clerk in the Colonial
Secretary's Office. This appointment to date from
the 1st proximo.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ADAM JOHN MCCLUSKY,
of Mount Ida, to be an Inspector of Weights and
Measures in the Province of Otago, vice Samuel
Moore, resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent, under "The Patents
Act, 1860," dated 17th November, 1870, in favour of

FREDERICK WILLIAM WRIGHT,
Surgeon, and
GEORGE CHARLES HERRICK,
Engineer, both of Parnell, in the Province of
Auckland, for an invention entitled the "Improved
Self-Acting Clamp Mountain Wire Tramway."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 23rd November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
THE PUBLIC GAOL,
situated on Reserve 441, in the Town of Hokitika, to
be a place for the Execution of Criminals under
"The Execution of Criminals Act, 1858."
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 30th November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
HARRY EYRE KENNY, Esq.,
to be Judge of the District Court of Taranaki.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 30th November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
CHARLES EDWARD RAWSON, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the District Court of Taranaki.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1870.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Captain ROBERT SCOTT MACHELL
to be a Captain (unattached) in the New Zealand
Militia.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1870.
THE attention of the persons or person within
the Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested
ecclesiastical authority over any of the Religious
Bodies enumerated in "Schedule D." annexed to an
Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The Marriage Act, 1854," (as amended
by "The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1867,") and
of all other persons concerned, is requested to the
following extracts from the Act aforesaid:
Sec. 42.-" Any Minister of Religion whose
name shall have been sent in to the Registrar-
General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or
other officer to be appointed by the Governor
in that behalf, by the persons or person within
the Colony in whom ecclesiastical authority
shall for the time being be vested or reputed
to be vested, over any of the Religious Bodies
enumerated in the "Schedule D." to this Act
annexed, shall, subject to the conditions here-
inafter mentioned, be an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of this Act; and the name
of every such Minister of Religion shall be
certified under the hand or hands of the per-
son or persons aforesaid, and shall be entered
and published as hereinafter provided."
Sec. 44.- "The several ecclesiastical authorities
as aforesaid of the respective Religious Bodies
shall send in to the said Registrar-General of