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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, the
eleventh day of May, 1871.
Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PRIME MINISTER, PRESIDING,
AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Provincial Compulsory Land
Act, 1866," it is enacted that Standing
Rules and Orders shall be prepared and adopted by
every Provincial Council, regulating the proceedings
on Bills authorizing the taking of land compulsorily,
but that the same shall have no force or effect until
they have been approved of by the Governor in
Council, and been published in the New Zealand
Gazette: And whereas the Standing Rules and
Orders contained in the Schedule hereto have been
prepared and adopted by the Provincial Council of
the Province of Taranaki, and it is expedient that
effect should be given to the same:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in
exercise of the power and authority vested in me by
the said Act, do hereby approve of the Rules and
Orders contained in the Schedule hereto, as adopted
by the said Provincial Council of Taranaki, for regu-
lating the proceedings in the said Council on Bills
authorizing the taking of land compulsorily.

WILLIAM FOX,
Presiding.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

STANDING RULES and ORDERS of the PROVINCIAL
COUNCIL OF TARANAKI, for regulating the Proceedings
on Bills for the compulsory Purchase of Land under
"The Provincial Compulsory Land Taking Act,
1866."

1. There shall be a Committee of the Council, to
   consist of the Chairman of Committees and four
   other members to be nominated by the Provincial
   Council each Session, whose duty shall be to consider
   and report respecting every Bill that shall be re-
   ferred to them.
2. Every Bill, after it shall have been read a first
   time, shall be referred to such Committee.
3. Compliance with the Standing Orders following,
   numbered from 4 to 11 inclusive, shall be proved
   before such Committee.
4. A notice shall be given of every Bill, which
   shall state shortly the nature of the intended work
   or undertaking, and the other objects (if any) of
   such Bill, and shall describe the land intended to be
   taken by every such Bill; and shall state the names of
   the townships or districts from, in, through, or into
   which the work or undertaking is intended to be
   made, maintained, varied, extended, or enlarged; and
   shall state the time and place of deposit of the plans,
   sections, and books of reference respectively, at the
   office hereafter specified.
5. Such notice shall be published once in the
   Government Gazette of the Province, and once a
   week for three consecutive weeks in one of the local
   newspapers circulating within the Province; and the
   first of such notices shall be published not less than
   one and not more than two calendar months before
   the introduction of such Bill into the Provincial
   Council.
6. Three calendar months at least before the intro-
   duction of such Bill into the Provincial Council,
   application must be made to the owners or reputed
   owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of
   all lands and houses so intended to be taken, or
   which may be taken as being within the limits of
   deviation defined upon the plan; and such applica-
   tion shall be as nearly as may be in the form or to
   the effect set forth in the Appendix marked A.
7. Such application shall be made by delivering
   the same personally to every such party, or by
   leaving the same at his usual place of abode, or in
   his absence from the Province with his agent, before
   the three calendar months aforesaid, or by forwarding
   the same by post, in a registered letter, addressed
   with a sufficient direction to his usual place of
   abode, and posted before the time aforesaid at some
   Post Office in the Province, at such hours and ac-
   cording to such regulations as may from time to