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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

said Act, and who may lawfully be entitled to do so,
shall make application to a Registering Officer in the
province in which he desires that his miner's right
shall be registered (the same not being the province
in which such right was issued). Such application
shall be in the following form or to the effect
thereof:-

To the Registering Officer at

I, A.B. [Name in full] of [Residence and occupation], the
lawful holder of the miner's right now produced by me and
marked (A), which right was issued to me in the Province of
, on the day of , 18 , hereby make
application to have the said right registered in the Province of
, in which province I intend to reside.

Dated at , this day of , 18 (Signature.)

Witness to signature-

C.D., Registering Officer, or
A Justice of the Peace.

4. Every such application shall be signed by the
   applicant, and shall be attested by the Registering
   Officer, or before a Justice of the Peace, and such
   Registering Officer or Justice shall mark the miner's
   right produced by the applicant with some distin-
   guishing letter or mark, and shall add thereafter the
   initials of his own name, and the date in figures.

5. The applicant shall also verify the said applica-
   tion by making and subscribing a statutory declara-
   tion, to be written or printed at the foot of such
   application, in the form or to the effect following,
   that is to say,—

NEW ZEALAND,
TO WIT.
PROVINCE OF {

I, the above-named A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare
that I am the person named in the above-mentioned miner's
right; that the said right is still in force, and that the par-
ticulars set forth in the above-written application are true.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing
the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General
Assembly intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866."

(Signature.)

Taken and declared before me, at
this day of , 18
C.D., a Justice of the Peace.

6. The above forms shall be kept by the Regis-
   tering Officer, and shall be supplied free of charge to
   intending applicants.

7. The applicant shall present his application made
   and completed in the form or to the effect herein
   before provided, and the same shall be received by
   the Registering Officer, and by him safely kept; and
   on the miner's right produced with the said applica-
   tion he shall make and sign a memorandum in the
   form following:—

Registered pursuant to "The Miners' Rights Extension Act,
1872," to take effect in the Province of [Naming it].
Dated this day of , 18
C.D.,
Registering Officer.

8. The applicant shall pay to the Registering
   Officer the sum of two shillings and sixpence as fee
   for the registration of his miner's right, and every
   such fee shall be prepaid, and before the making of
   the memorandum in the last clause provided for; and
   no registration shall be complete or effectual until
   the making and signing of such memorandum; and no
   person shall be entitled to. have a right registered in
   the province in which it was issued.

9. The Registering Officer shall keep a book in
   which shall be entered in alphabetical order the
   names of the persons registering their miners' rights,
   and such book shall contain the following par-
   ticulars:-

Name of person whose right is registered, his
occupation and residence.

Date of registration of right; province and place
in which right issued.

Date of issue.

10. Any person shall be entitled to search the book
    directed to be kept as aforesaid, on payment of a fee
    of one shilling to the Registering Officer for each
    name searched against:

Provided that every officer of police or other officer
of the General Government, or of the Government
of the Province of Nelson or of Westland, shall be
entitled to make any search required by the duties of
his office without payment of any fee.

11. All fees paid to the Registering Officers under
    these Regulations, shall be paid into the Public
    Account of the Colony.

12. These Regulations are only in force in the
    Provinces of Nelson and Westland, in accordance
    with the provisions of the said Act.

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 at Wellington,
this fifteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Licensing Courts for the Licensing Districts of
Coaldale and Paroa appointed.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Licensing Act 1873 Amend-
ment Act, 1874," it is enacted that every
Licensing Court shall hold its meetings in the Court
House used as a Court House by the Resident
Magistrate or Court of Petty Sessions in the Licens-
ing District, or if there be no such Court House in
such district, then the Court shall hold its meetings
at such place as may from time to time be appointed
by the Governor: And whereas there is no such
Court House in either the Coaldale or Paroa Districts:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the power and authority vested in me
in this behalf, do hereby appoint the Racecourse
Hotel, Coaldale, and the Paroa Hotel, Paroa, to be
the places at which the Licensing Courts for the
Licensing Districts of Coaldale and Paroa respectively
shall hold their meetings.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and
over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, this twenty-second
day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.

DANIEL POLLEN.