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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Act, 1870," it is enacted that the Court shall hold
its sittings at such times and places as shall be from
time to time fixed by the Governor in Council and
proclaimed in the Government Gazette thirty days at
least before the times so fixed respectively:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, doth hereby fix that a Sitting of the
Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within
the Supreme Court House, in the City of Wellington
and Province of Wellington, upon the twelfth day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

WILLIAM Fox,
Presiding.

Scale of Fees for comparison of Weights and
Measures.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in
me for that purpose by the twenty-second section
of "The Weights and Measures Act, 1868," I, Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New
Zealand, do hereby make the under-mentioned general
regulation for the purpose of fixing and determining
the sum to be paid to Inspectors of Weights and
Measures by each and every person requiring a com-
parison of weights and measures, as by the said Act
is provided, such sum being payable in addition to
the fees by the said Act made payable.

REGULATION.

Whenever the Colonial Secretary shall have re-
quired any Inspector to take the authorized copies
of weights and measures to any place for the pur-
poses of comparison, every person requiring such
comparison shall pay to the Inspector an additional
sum upon the following scale, that is—

1. Where the distance which the Inspector
   shall have travelled from the place where
   the authorized copies are deposited does
   not exceed 10 miles ... ... 2s. 6d.
2. Where such distance exceeds 10 miles and
   does not exceed 15 miles ... ... 5s.
3. Where such distance exceeds 15 miles and
   does not exceed 20 miles ... ... 10s.
4. Where such distance exceeds 20 miles or is
   beyond the district and not included in
   any other district ... ... 15s.
   Provided that where the Inspector shall have been
   required to take the authorized copies from their
   place of deposit to more than one town or place on
   the same line of road or in the same part of his
   district, then for the purpose of fixing the sum to be
   paid hereunder, the term "place of deposit" shall
   mean the last town or place which the Inspector
   may have visited for the purposes aforesaid. But
   this proviso shall only be of effect in cases where the
   Inspector is able to make a continuous journey, and
   not where he may have to return to the place of
   deposit in order to proceed on such journey.
   Inspectors will only be required to take the
   authorized copies to any town or place for the pur-
   poses of comparison as aforesaid, upon receiving a
   request in writing from at least five persons resident
   in such town or place who may require their services;
   and on receipt of such request, the Inspector shall
   give notice in writing to the applicants, appointing a
   day, hour, and place at which he will attend with the
   said copies for the purposes aforesaid.
   All sums of money hereby made payable must be
   prepaid to the Inspector, and payment of the sum
   fixed in any case is intended to cover comparison of
   all weights or measures presented for comparison on
   any one occasion, and being the bona fide property of
   the person requiring the same; subject, however, to
   the provisions of the twenty-second section of "The
   Weights and Measures Act, 1868."

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, at Wellington, this eighteenth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Places of Deposit of Standard Weights and
Measures in Canterbury.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in
me by "The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,"
I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New
Zealand, do hereby direct that the authorized copies
of the Standard Weights and Measures issued and to
be issued, under the provisions of the said Act, to
the several Inspectors of Weights and Measures for
the districts named in the first column of the Schedule
hereto shall be kept therein at the several places of
deposit the names whereof are in the second column
of the said Schedule set opposite the names of the
said districts, in the respective buildings the descrip-
tions whereof are in the third column of the said
Schedule set opposite the names of such places of
deposit respectively.

SCHEDULE.

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, at Wellington, this eighteenth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Despatch from the Secretary of State referring to steps
taken by the United States Government for suppress-
ing the Kidnapping of Natives in the Pacific.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1873.

THE following Despatch, with enclosures, from Her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Colonies, is published for general information.

WILLIAM Fox.