25. No assignment or license executed in New
    Zealand shall be registered unless and until a
    statutory declaration be furnished by one of the
    attesting witnesses to the said assignment or
    license of the due execution of the said assignment
    or license; and unless and until an attested copy
    or attested copies of the assignment or assign-
    ments, license or licenses, and all instruments or
    documents of title, be deposited in the said Patent
    Office.

26. No assignment or license executed out of
    New Zealand shall be registered unless and until
    a declaration be furnished by one of the attesting
    witnesses to the said assignment or license of the
    due execution of the same assignment or license,
    such declaration being certified by a Notary Public;
    and unless and until an examined copy or examined
    copies of the assignment or assignments, or license
    or licenses, and all instruments or documents of
    title, certified by a Notary Public to be correct, be
    deposited in the said Patent Office; and also unless
    and until a declaration (annexed to the assignment
    or license) be furnished by the applicant that he
    is the person named in the copy deed annexed,
    and that it is a true copy of the original deed, such
    declaration being certified by a Notary Public:
    Provided always that if it be proved to the satis-
    faction of the said Patent Officer that the attesting
    witness to any such assignment or license is dead
    or cannot be found, the execution of the same
    assignment or license may be proved by a decla-
    ration of any other person capable of declaring to
    same, such declaration being certified by a Notary
    Public.

SCHEDULE.
Alphabetical Index of Proprietors, &c.

| Name of
Patentee. | Name of
Proprietor. | Number. | Date of Assignment. | Subject-
matter of
Patents, &c. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | In Register of
Proprietors. | In Register of
Patents. | |

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twentieth day of September, 1871.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council, from time to time, to order and direct
that all or any of the powers, functions, duties, and
authorities vested in or required to be performed by
the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any
Province or other district of the Colony, shall be
exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any
such Province, or by any other person the Governor
may think fit, subject however to any limitations or
restrictions as he may think fit; and thereupon such
functions, powers, duties, and authorities, may by

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such Superintendent or other person be exercised or
performed within the Province or other district of
the Colony specified in such order:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Colony, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority for that purpose vested in him,
doth hereby order and direct that all the powers,
functions, duties, and authorities vested in or required
to be performed by the Governor, or the Governor
in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by "The
Lunatics Act, 1868," within the Province of Can-
terbury, shall be exercised by

RICHARD JAMES STRACHAN HARMAN, Esq.,
the Deputy Superintendent of the said Province, but
only during the absence of the Superintendent of the
said Province therefrom, and during any vacancy in
the office of the Superintendent of the said Province
arising by death or resignation, and only so long as
the said Richard James Strachan Harman, Esq.,
shall hold the office of Deputy Superintendent of the
said Province.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers and authorities vested in
me by "The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment
Act, 1865," I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of New Zealand, do hereby assent to the
regulations and prohibitory declarations contained
in a Proclamation issued by William Rolleston, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, dated
the twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette on the fifth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order,
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, Wellington, this twenty-second
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

Registrar General's Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1871.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following names of Officiating Ministers,
within the meaning of the said Act, are published for
general information:---

United Church of England and Ireland.
The Reverend RICHARD HAMPSON GASKIN.

Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend JEREMIAH DONOVAN.

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Names of Officiating
Ministers, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," have been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 7, of the 31st of January; No. 14,
of the 25th of February; No. 19, of the 18th
of March; No. 20, of the 27th of March; No. 23,
of the 13th of April; No. 24, of the 26th of April;
No. 27, of the 13th of May; No. 29, of the 20th of