Numb. 12.
97

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
third day of February, 1871.
Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the second section of "The New
Zealand University Act, 1870," it is enacted
that a University consisting of a Council and Senate
shall be established, and, when duly constituted and
appointed according to the provisions of the said Act,
shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of
"The University of New Zealand," and by that name
shall have perpetual succession and shall adopt and
have a Common Seal, and shall by the same name sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered unto, in all Courts of the said Colony, and
shall be capable in law to take, purchase, and hold all
goods, chattels, and personal property whatsoever,
and shall also be able and capable in law to receive,
take, purchase, and hold for ever not only such lands,
buildings, hereditaments, and possessions as may
from time to time be exclusively used and occupied
by the said University for its immediate requirements,
but also any other lands, buildings, hereditaments
and possessions whatsoever situate in the said Colony
or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law to
grant, demise, alienate or otherwise dispose of all or
any of the property real or personal belonging to
the said University, and also to do all other matters
and things incidental or appertaining to a body
politic: Provided always that, until the Senate of
the said University shall have been constituted as is
therein enacted, the said body politic and corporate
shall consist of the Council to be nominated and
appointed by the Governor in Council as thereinafter
mentioned:

And whereas by the third section of the said Act
it is enacted that the Council of the said University
shall be nominated and appointed by the Governor in
Council within six months after the passing of the
said Act, and shall consist of twenty Councillors, of
whom twelve at least shall be laymen :
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of Zew Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, in exercise and pursuance of the powers
and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth
hereby nominate and appoint

Sir George Alfred Arney, Chief Justice, Auck-
land;
The Right Reverend Dr. Croke, Roman Catholic
Bishop, Auckland;
Hugh Carleton, Esq., Auckland;
The Honorable Robert Stokes, M.L.C., Welling-
ton;
The Honorable Morgan Stanislaus Grace, M.D.,
M.L.C., Wellington;
The Honorable William Fitzherbert, Wellington;
The Reverend Thomas Buddle, Wellington;
James Hector, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., Wellington;
His Honor Oswald Curtis, Nelson;
The Honorable Edward William Stafford, Nelson;
The Right Reverend Henry John Chitty Harper,
Bishop of Christchurch, Canterbury;
Henry John Tancred, Esq., Canterbury;
The Honorable John Barton Arundel Acland,
M.L.C., Canterbury;
His Honor William Rolleston, Canterbury;
His Honor Henry Samuel Chapman, Judge,
Otago;
His Honor James Macandrew, Otago;
The Honorable Captain Thomas Fraser, M.L.C.,
Otago;
The Honorable Henry John Miller, M.L.C.,
Otago;
The Honorable Robert Campbell, M.L.C., Otago;
The Reverend William Johnston, Otago;
to be the Council of "The University of New
Zealand," under the provisions of the said Act.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.