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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1874.

Dissolving Provincial Council of Canterbury.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament,
passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled
"An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to
the Colony of New Zealand," the several Provinces
of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson,
Canterbury, and Otago are thereby established, and
it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there
shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted
that every Provincial Council shall continue for the
period of four years from the day of return of the
writs for choosing the same, and no longer: Provided
always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of
New Zealand, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dis-
solve the same whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
by this Proclamation dissolve the Provincial Council
of the said Province of Canterbury accordingly.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Wel-
lington; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, this twenty-eighth day
of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Mutiny Act received by the Governor.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Act, 1870," it is
enacted that during the time that any part of
the Militia shall be on actual service, all things con-
tained in any Act of the Imperial Parliament which
shall then be in force in New Zealand for punishing
mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of
the Army and their quarters, and in the Articles of
War made in pursuance of such Act, shall apply to,
and the powers thereby created shall be exercised by,
such part of the Militia in all cases not otherwise
provided for in "The Militia Act, 1870," or in any
Regulations that may from time to time be issued
under its authority: Provided that no Militiaman
shall be liable to any corporal punishment except
death or imprisonment for any offence against any
such Act of the Imperial Parliament or Articles:
Provided also that no such Act of the Imperial
Parliament or Articles of War shall be deemed to be
in force in New Zealand until a Proclamation shall
have been published in the New Zealand Gazette,
stating that the Governor has received a copy
thereof:

And whereas by the one hundred and second
section of the Act of the Imperial Parliament,
intituled "An Act for Punishing Mutiny and
Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army
and their Quarters," made and passed in the thirty-
fifth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen
Victoria, it is enacted that the same shall be and
continue in force in certain parts of Her Majesty's
dominions at and from such times as in the said
section mentioned, and in all other parts of Her
Majesty's dominions, including New Zealand, from
the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four inclusive, until the first day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five: Provided always that the same shall, from and
after the receipt and promulgation thereof in General