THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 303

and remove, officers and persons subordinate to the
Commissioner, to collect and manage the Customs
Revenue, and to perform the several duties incident
to and connected with the collection and management
thereof:
Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority, do hereby delegate to
The Hon. HARRY ALBERT ATKINSON,
the Commissioner of Customs appointed as afore-
said, the power to appoint and remove officers and
persons subordinate to the Commissioner, to collect
and manage the Customs revenue, and to perform
the several duties incident to and connected with
the collection and management thereof, vested in me
by the said in part recited Act, to be held and exer-
cised by him from time to time as he shall think fit,
so long as he shall hold the said office of Commis-
sioner of Customs.

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; at the Government House, at
Auckland, this eleventh day of April,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Wellington Botanic Garden Regulations.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1876.

THE following Regulations and By-laws relating
to the Wellington Botanic Garden are published
for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary).

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Botanic Garden Act, 1869,"
the Board of Governors for the time being consti-
tuted thereby are empowered, with the consent of the
Governor in Council, to direct and order at what
times, in what manner, and under what restrictions
and conditions the public should be admitted to the
said Botanic Garden, and should have full power, with
the like consent, to make by-laws for the safety and
preservation of the public property therein contained;
for the distribution, by gift, exchange, or public sale,
of any spare plants, seeds, specimens and animals; for
the repressing such impropriety in the conduct of
visitors as might tend to immorality, profanity, in-
jury, breach of the peace, or the discomfort of other
visitors, and otherwise for the more regular and
efficient government of the said Garden; and rescind
and alter such by-laws, times, restrictions, and con-
ditions, or any of them, from time to time, with the
like consent, and make others in their stead: Now,
therefore, in pursuance of the power in that behalf
vested in them, the Governors of the Botanic Garden
do, by this instrument under their seal, direct and
declare, —

1. The Botanic Garden of Wellington (hereinafter
   called the Garden) shall be open to the public be-
   tween the hour of ten in the morning and sunset
   throughout the year; subject, nevertheless, to any
   alteration which may from time to time be duly noti-
   fied in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. No person visiting the Garden shall enter the
   Garden otherwise than by the appointed gates or
   turnstiles, or be permitted to enter any of the enclo-
   sures or places set apart for the cultivation of special
   plants, without the authority of the Keeper of the
   Garden.
3. No person visiting the Garden shall stray off the
   paths except for the purpose of using any of the seats
   erected for the use of visitors.
4. No person visiting the Garden shall bring or
   suffer any dog or other animal to accompany him, or
   to stray into any part of the Garden.
5. No person shall use any profane language, or
   commit any breach of the peace or other impropriety,
   or insult or wilfully annoy any other person within
   the precincts of the Garden; and no person shall
   enter the garden except during the hours at which
   the same are open to the public as hereinbefore men-
   tioned.
6. No person shall take into the Garden any gun,
   pistol, bow, or other weapon of any kind whatsoever,
   whether of the nature of those before mentioned or
   otherwise, or which may be used in the killing or
   destruction of birds or animals.
7. No person shall light any fire, or wilfully break
   any fence or any part of any fence, or wilfully dig any
   part of the soil or cut any sod, or wilfully cut, break,
   or otherwise damage or destroy any tree, shrub, or
   plant of any kind whatsoever, or wilfully take, des-
   troy, or injure any animal, bird, or fish, or the nest or
   egg of any bird, or shoot at or otherwise in any
   manner attempt to kill or injure any bird or animal
   within the precincts of the Garden.
8. No person shall destroy or attempt to damage
   any object of art, or natural object of any kind, for
   the time being placed within the Garden.
9. No person shall destroy, deface, or injure any
   inscription, or any label attached to or connected
   with any tree, shrub, or other plant within the
   Garden.
10. No person shall wilfully destroy or damage any
    building or erection of any kind with the precincts of
    the Garden.
11. No person shall damage any tool or implement
    of any kind used, or for the time being lying, within
    the precincts of the Garden.

(L.S.)

Passed under the Seal of the Governors of
the Botanic Garden, this ninth day of
March, 1876.

W. B. D. MANTELL,
Chairman.
RICHARD B. GORE,
Secretary.

Approved in Council at Auckland,
April, 12th, 1876.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

In connection with the foregoing Regulations and
By-laws, the following section of "The Botanic
Garden Act, 1869," is published for general informa-
tion:—

"Any person who shall commit any offence against any of the
Regulations, Orders, or By-laws, made and approved as afore-
said, shall on conviction before any Justice of the Peace be
liable to a penalty of not more than ten pounds, and shall also
be liable to pay the amount of any damage done by such person,
which penalty and damage may be recovered in a summary way
on the complaint of the said Board or their Secretary."