New Zealand Gazette – 1871 – No. 35

Page 309

✨ Orders and Appointments

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 309

representation from the Lords of the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council, dated the twentieth to
January, 1871, humbly recommending to Her Majesty
in Council that certain rules be established by the
authority of Her Majesty, by and with the advice
of her Privy Council, to be observed in the form and
type used in the printing of all Cases, Records, and
other Proceedings in Appeals and other matters
pending before the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, Her Majesty having taken the said repre-
sentation into consideration, and the Schedule of
Rules hereunto annexed, was pleased, by and with
the advice of her Privy Council, to approve thereof,
and to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the same
be punctually observed, obeyed, and carried into
execution. Whereof the Judges and Officers of all
the Courts of Justice in Her Majesty's dominions
from which an appeal lies to Her Majesty in Council,
and all other persons whom it may concern, are to
take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
ARTHUR HELPS.

Schedule annexed to the foregoing Order.

I. All Cases, Records, and other Proceedings in
Appeals or other matters pending before the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council are henceforth to be
printed in the form known as demy quarto, and not
in demy folio, as hath heretofore been used.

II. The size of the paper used is to be such that
the sheet, when folded, will be 11 inches in height
and 8 5/8 in width.

III. The type to be used in the text is to be Pica
type, but Long Primer is to be used in printing
accounts, tabular matter, and notes.

IV. The number of lines in each page of Pica type
is to be forty-seven, each line being 5 3/4 inches or
146 millimetres in length.

V. The foregoing rules do not apply to cases now
pending in which the printing of the Record is begun
before the receipt of this order; but in all cases
printed after the receipt of this order, the form
and type herein prescribed are to be used exclu-
sively.

VI. The price in England for printing seventy-five
copies in the form herein established is to be thirty-
eight shillings per sheet (eight pages) of pica, with
marginal notes, not including corrections, tabular
matter, and other extras.

VII. The form of paper and type of the present
Order in Council, with the pages hereunto annexed,*
are to serve as a specimen sheet or pattern for the
printing of the proceedings before the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council.
A. H.

The specimen form will be printed separately.

THE following Act passed by the General Assem-
bly of New Zealand in the Session held in the
thirty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, intituled
No. 80. "The Immigration and Public Works
Loan Act, 1870,"

having been laid before the Queen in conformity with
the provisions of the Constitution Act, His Excellency
the Governor has been informed by the Secretary of
State that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise
her power of disallowance with respect to that Act.
W. GISBORNE.