THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 273

within which the lands shall be situated, or if the
lands set forth on any such map shall extend beyond
the boundaries of any one district, then such map
shall be prepared in so many parts as shall be
requisite to delineate the land within each such
district, and the map or the parts thereof as afore-
said shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of Deeds in each Registration District where the
lands shall be situated to which such map relates;
but for the purposes of the said Act, such map,
although consisting of several parts, shall only be
deemed to be one map: And whereas by the said
Act it is further enacted, that it shall thereupon be
lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to declare
that the lands set forth in such map, or any of them,
have been taken or acquired for the purposes of the
railway in respect of which the same shall have been
taken or acquired under the said Acts, or any Act
authorizing the same to be taken or acquired, and in
such Proclamation the lands intended to be affected
shall be therein described by reference to such map
so to be deposited as aforesaid: And whereas, in
accordance with the provisions of the said in part
recited Act, the Minister for Public Works has
caused a map of all such lands as have been taken
or purchased for the branch line of railway from
Rangiora to Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury,
which said branch line is situated between a point in
Rural Section numbered 917, in the Province of
Canterbury, and the north-eastern corner of Rural
Section numbered 4370, in the same Province, to
be prepared as by the said in part recited Act is
required; and the said map is authenticated by the
signature of the Honourable Edward Richardson, as
such Minister for Public Works: And whereas the
said Minister, on or about the eleventh day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, caused
the said map to be deposited in the office of the
Registrar of Deeds at Christchurch, in the Province
of Canterbury aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me by the herein-
before in part recited Act, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the lands set forth in the said map so
deposited as aforesaid have been taken or acquired
for the purposes of the said branch line of railway
from Rangiora to Oxford, which said Railway is,
by "The Railways Act, 1871," and "The Railways
Act, 1872," authorized to be constructed and main-
tained under the provisions of "The Immigration
and Public Works Act, 1870," and the several Acts
amending the same:

And in further pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority, I do hereby proclaim and declare
that the lands intended to be affected by this Pro-
clamation are described and delineated in the said
map so deposited as aforesaid.

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 Honouroble Privy
Council; Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished 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
Napier, this thirtieth day of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations for the Public Prisons of the Colony,
under "The Prisons Act, 1873," as to Dietary.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the fifteenth section of "The
Prisons Act, 1873," it is, amongst other things,
enacted that the Governor may from time to time,
by Proclamation published in the New Zealand
Gazette, make rules as to him shall seem fit touching
the diet, treatment, and correction of the prisoners
confined in public prisons; and it is by the same sec-
tion enacted that the Governor may from time to time
alter or revoke any such rules as aforesaid: And
whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the seven-
teenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the eighteenth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five, a certain ration scale
was appointed for convicted prisoners: And whereas
it is expedient to amend such ration scale:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in me in this behalf as
aforesaid, do hereby revoke, from the first day
of May next, Number Thirty-five of the Prison
Regulations of the seventeenth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and
the ration scale contained in the said Regulations;
and do hereby make in lieu thereof the following
Regulation and Ration Scales, to be in force within
all the public prisons of the colony from the said
first day of May next.

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
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Napier, this second day
of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

REGULATION.

EVERY convicted prisoner shall be allowed food
according to the ration scales annexed to this regu-
lation; and every such prisoner employed at hard
labour, who shall be in the opinion of the Gaoler a
malingerer, or idle and negligent at work, may with
the approval of one of the Visiting Justices, signified
in writing, be supplied with food according to the
Ration Scale Number 2, instead of Ration Scale
Number 1. Prisoners under the care of the Surgeon