Numb. 39.
471

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1874.

Disallowance of "Otago Gold Duty Repayment
Ordinance, 1874."

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the
fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a
Representative Constitution to the Colony of New
Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that
whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the
Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the
Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be
lawful for the Governor, at any time within three
months after any such Bill shall have been received
by him, to declare by Proclamation his disallowance
of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same from and after the
day of the date of such Proclamation or any subse-
quent day to be named therein :

And whereas the Act hereinafter specified has
been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago, with
the advice and consent of the Provincial Council
thereof, and the said Act was received by the
Governor, on the twenty-fifth day of June, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four :

And whereas it is expedient that the said Act
should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do
hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the
following Act, passed by the Superintendent and
Provincial Council of the Province of Otago,
namely,-

"The Otago Gold Duty Repayment Ordinance,
1874."

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; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at Wellington, this
fourteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation of a Public Prison at Arrowtown.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand intituled "The Prisons Act,
1873," it is provided that the Governor may from
time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by Proclama-
tion published in the New Zealand Gazette, declare
any house, building, enclosure, or place to be a
public prison, and from and after the publication of
any such Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette,
or from any latter time specified in the Proclamation,
such house, building enclosure, or place, shall be
deemed to be a public prison:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby proclaim and declare the following house or
building to be a public prison:—

The Lock-up at Arrowtown, in the Province of
Otago.

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; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this fifteenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!