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time be in force for the posting and registration of
registered letters: Provided always that if the place
of abode of any such party cannot after reasonable
inquiry be found, and if it cannot after reasonable
inquiry be found that any such party has any agent
within the Province, such application may be made
by leaving the same on some conspicuous part of the
land proposed to be taken before the three calendar
months aforesaid.

8. In all cases the written acknowledgment of
   the party applied to shall, in the absence of other
   proof, be sufficient evidence of an application having
   been made; and in case of an applicaton or notice
   having been forwarded by post in a registered letter,
   the production of the Post Office receipt for such
   letter, duly stamped, shall be sufficient evidence of
   the due delivery of such letter, provided it shall
   appear that the same was properly and sufficiently
   directed, and that the same was not returned by the
   Post Office as undelivered.

9. Separate lists shall be made of the names of
   such owners, lessees, and occupiers, distinguishing
   those who have assented, dissented, or are neuter in
   respect to such application, or who have returned no
   answer thereto; and where no written acknowledg-
   ment has been returned to an application forwarded
   by post, or where such application has been returned
   as undelivered at any time before the making up of
   such lists, the direction of the letter in which the same
   was so forwarded shall be inserted therein.

10. No notice served or application made on a
    Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, or before
    eight o'clock in the forenoon or after eight o'clock
    in the afternoon of any day, shall be deemed valid,
    except in case of delivery of letters by post.

11. Plans, books of reference, and sections relating
    to the work or undertaking, and to the land proposed
    to be taken, shall be deposited for public inspection
    at the office of the Superintendent one calendar
    month at least before the commencement of the
    Session in which any Bill shall be introduced. Such
    plans, books of reference, and sections shall be, as
    nearly as may be, of the same nature and description
    as would be required in similar cases by the Standing
    Orders of the General Assembly of New Zealand
    relative to Private Bills.

12. All petitions for or against any such Bill
    shall be referred to the said Committee.

13. No Bill shall be read a second time until the
    Committee have reported in writing under the hand
    of their Chairman that the preceding Standing Orders,
    numbered one to eleven inclusive, have been com-
    plied with.

14. The word "Bill" in the foregoing Standing
    Orders shall mean a Bill for the compulsory purchase
    of land under "The Compulsory Land Taking Act,
    1866."

15. Every Bill for the compulsory purchase of
    land, except as otherwise provided by these Standing
    Orders, shall be proceeded with as a Public Bill.

APPENDIX A.

To

NOTICE is hereby given to you, that application is
intended to be made to the Provincial Council of
Taranaki in the ensuing Session for an Ordinance
, and that the property mentioned in the
annexed Schedule, or some part thereof, in which you
are supposed to be interested as therein stated, will
or may be required for the purposes of the said
undertaking. A plan and section of the said under-
taking, with a book of reference thereto, will be
deposited in the Superintendent's Office, Taranaki,
one month before the commencement of the ensuing
Session, on which plans your property is designated
by the numbers set forth in the annexed Schedule.
You are requested to state whether you assent or
dissent from the proposed undertaking, or are neuter
in respect thereto, by filling up the form sent here-
with and returning the same to the Superintendent
at his office at New Plymouth on or before the
day of next; and if there should be any error
or misdescription in the annexed Schedule, at the
same time to inform the Superintendent of the same.

SCHEDULE.
Number on
Plan.
Place.
Description of
Land.
Name of Owner
or
reputed Owner.
Name of Lessee
or
reputed Lessee.
Name of
Occupier.
Assent.
Dissent.
Neuter.

Approved in Council 7th March, 1871.

JAMES B. LAWSON,
Clerk, Provincial Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of May, 1871.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it is
amongst other things enacted that the
Governor in Council may from time to time make
such regulations as to him shall seem meet for carrying
into effect the purposes of the said Act in all respects
other than as provided for by the one hundred and
eighty-seventh section thereof, and for regulating the
form and mode of proceeding in all cases other than as
aforesaid under the said Act, and for prescribing the
administrative duties of the Registrar in connection
with the management of the estates of lunatics and
lunatic patients, and for the due protection, care, and
management of the persons and estates of lunatic
patients, and for defraying the general charges inci-
dent to the administration of the estates of lunatics
and lunatic patients, and such regulations may from
time to time rescind or vary and substitute others or
another in lieu of them or any of them:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, and in exercise and pursuance of all
powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf,
doth by this present Order make the following Regu-
lations, that is to say:—

1. Every Auditor appointed under "The Lunatics
   Act, 1868," to audit the accounts of any Registrar
   of the Supreme Court in Lunacy, shall forthwith
   report to the Colonial Secretary every failure by the
   Registrar in complying with the requirements of the
   eighth of the Regulations of the fourth of May, one
   thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the par-
   ticulars of such non-compliance.

2. Every such Auditor shall have access to the
   books and accounts of every such Registrar whose
   accounts he is appointed to audit; and also to all
   vouchers, documents, and papers filed in the Supreme
   Court Office, or in the custody or possession or
   under the control of such Registrar, relating to any
   lunatic's estate the accounts of which it is his duty to
   audit; and he may in relation to such accounts
   examine such Registrar, and any officer or clerk in
   the Supreme Court Office at which such Registrar is
   appointed to act.