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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1875.

Act for Prevention of Criminal Outrages upon Pacific
Islands Natives to be in force.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Par-
liament, passed in the thirty-eighth and thirty-
ninth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty
Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to amend the Act
of the Session of the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Nineteen,
intitled 'An Act for the Prevention and Punishment
of Criminal Outrages upon Natives of the Islands in
the Pacific Ocean," it is provided that the said Act
shall be proclaimed in such Australasian colony by
the Governor thereof within six weeks after a copy
of it has been received by such Governor, and shall
take effect in the said colony from the day of such
Proclamation: And whereas a copy of the said Act
was received by the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand on the twenty-ninth day of November last
past, which copy is hereunto annexed:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the requirements of
the said Act, and in exercise of the powers thereby
vested in me, do hereby proclaim the said Act in the
Colony of New Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron
Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County
of York, in the Peerage of the United
Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New
Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council;
Knight Commander of the Most Distin-
guished 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; and
issued under the Seal of the said Colony,
at the Government House, at Wellington,
this fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PACIFIC ISLANDERS PROTECTION.
[38 and 39 Vict. c. 51.]

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.
Clauses.

1. Construction of Act and Short Title.
2. Amendment of 35 and 36 Vict. c. 19, s. 3, as to the carrying
   in British vessels of Native labourers.
3. Amendment of 35 and 36 Vict. c. 19, ss. 6 and 16, as to
   seizure of suspected British vessels.
4. Jurisdiction of Courts in regard to vessels, goods, and
   effects seized under 35 and 36 Vict. c. 19, or this Act.
5. Adaptation of 35 and 36 Vict. c. 19, ss. 19 and 20, to this
   Act.
6. Power for Her Majesty to exercise jurisdiction over British
   subjects in islands of the Pacific Ocean. Office of High
   Commissioner. Power to Her Majesty to erect a Court
   of justice for British subjects in the islands of the
   Pacific. Power to make Ordinances. High Commis-
   sioner to have powers of Consular Officer.
7. Saving of rights of tribes.
8. Amendment of definitions in 35 and 36 Vict. c. 19.
9. Alteration of forms.
10. Proclamation of Act.
11. Repeal of 35 and 36 Vict. c. 19, ss. 1, 18, and 21.
    Schedules.

CHAPTER 51.
A.D. 1875.

AN Acr to amend the Act of the Session of the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Years of the Reign
of Her present Majesty, Chapter Nineteen, in-
tituled "An Act for the Prevention and Punish-
ment of Criminal Outrages upon Natives of the
Islands in the Pacific Ocean."

[2nd August, 1875.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:---