THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 863

he left Wanganui. He is then supposed to have
gone to the Gold Fields.
Any person who may be able to give information
respecting the above-named person, either as to his
death or present place of abode, is requested to com-
municate with this office.

G. S. COOPER,
Under Secretary.

By-laws of Friendly Society registered.

IN the matter of "The Friendly Societies Act,
1867:" Notice is hereby given, that a transcript
of the By-laws of
"The Grahamstown Branch, No. 35, of the Hiber-
nian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society,"
duly certified in the manner provided by section 14
of the said Act, was on the 29th day of May, 1872,
lodged with the Registrar of Friendly Societies,
registered and recorded under the provisions of the
Act above quoted.

Dated this 21st day of December, 1874.
G. S. COOPER,
(for the Registrar).

Notification of Resignation of Seat in the House of
Representatives for Electoral District of Kaiapoi.

IN compliance with the provisions of the 13th
section of "The Regulation of Elections Act,
1870," I hereby notify that JOHN STUDHOLME, Esq.,
resigned his seat in the House of Representatives
for the Electoral District of Kaiapoi on the 8th
day of December, 1874; and that the said seat is
vacant by reason of such resignation.

Dated at Shag Valley, the 14th day of December,
1874.
F. D. BELL,
Speaker.

Notice relating to Officiating Ministers under the
Marriage Acts.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1874.

THE attention of the persons or person within the
ecclesiastical authority over any of the Religious
Bodies enumerated in "Schedule D" annexed to an
Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, in-
tituled "The Marriage Act, 1854," (as amended by
"The Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1867,") and of
all other persons concerned, is requested to the fol-
lowing extracts from the Act aforesaid :-

Sec. 42. -"Any Minister of Religion whose
name shall have been sent in to the Registrar-
General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or
other officer to be appointed by the Gover-
nor in that behalf, by the persons or person
within the Colony in whom ecclesiastical
authority shall for the time being be vested or
reputed to be vested, over any of the religious
Bodies enumerated in the "Schedule D" to
this Act annexed, shall, subject to the con-
ditions hereinafter mentioned, be an Officiating
Minister within the meaning of this Act; and
the name of every such Minister of Religion
shall be certified under the hand or hands of
the person or persons aforesaid, and shall be
entered and published as hereinafter pro-
vided."

Sec. 44.-"The several ecclesiastical authorities
as aforesaid of the respective Religious Bodies
shall send in to the said Registrar-General or
other officer as aforesaid, a correct list of such

Officiating Ministers in the month of Decem-
ber in every year."

The following are the Religious Bodies above
referred to:-

"The United Church of England and Ireland,"
"The Church of Scotland,"
"The Roman Catholic Church,"
"The Free Church of Scotland."
"The Presbyterian Church of Otago and
Southland,"
"All Presbyterian Congregations,"
"The Wesleyan Methodist Society,"
"All Congregational Independents,"
"Baptists,"
"The Primitive Methodist Society,"
"The Lutheran Church,"
"All Hebrew Congregations,"
"The Society of Friends."

With respect to Ministers of Religion not con-
nected with any of the aforesaid bodies, it is provided
by the forty-second section of "The Marriage Act,
1854," and the second section of "The Marriage Act
Amendment Act, 1868," as follows:-

Sec. 42, Marriage Act, 1854.-"Provided always
that any Minister of Religion not connected
with any of the bodies enumerated in the
aforesaid Schedule to this Act annexed, who
shall present to any Registrar a certificate
signed by twenty-four householders resident
in the district for which such Registrar shall
be appointed, declaring that such Minister is
their Officiating Minister, shall be entitled to
have his name inserted in the list of Officiating
Ministers in the meaning of this Act: Pro-
vided always that such certificate shall be at-
tested by two Justices of the Peace, and such
attested certificate shall be sent in to the
Registrar-General or other Officer as afore-
said anew in the month of December in every
year, and no such attested certificate pre-
sented to any Registrar by any Minister as
aforesaid shall continue in force unless re-
newed in like manner."

The provision printed in italics in the foregoing
extract has been amended as follows
-:

Sec. 2, Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1868.-
"So much of the forty-second section of 'The
Marriage Act, 1854,' as provides that the
certificate in the said section referred to shall
be attested by two Justices of the Peace is
hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is
enacted that the signatures to any such cer-
tificate referred to in the said section of the
said Act shall be attested by some person who
shall verify the same by solemn declaration
before a Justice of the Peace, in the form set
forth in the Schedule hereto, and appended to
such certificate, and signed by such person;
and if any person shall make any such decla-
ration falsely, he shall be guilty of a misde-
meanour."

"SCHEDULE.
"I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that
all the signatures affixed to the above certifi-
cate are the genuine signatures of the persons
whose they purport to be.

Taken before me, this
A.D. 18
C.D.,
A.B.
day of

A Justice of the Peace for the
Colony of New Zealand."