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and the same are hereby suspended within the entire | Declaring Districts under "Native Lands Act, 1873."
district contained within the sea-coast line of the
Middle Island proper, exclusive of any islands lying
adjacent or contiguous thereto; and doth hereby
frame and prescribe the regulations and conditions
mentioned in the Schedule hereto, as the regula-
tions and conditions subject to which ammunition for
such purposes may henceforth be obtained within the
aforesaid district.

SCHEDULE.

1. Any licensed dealer under "The Arms Act,
   1860," may sell to any applicant any quantity
   of ammunition for sporting purposes, not exceeding
   two pounds (2 lbs.) powder, twenty pounds (20 lbs.)
   of shot, and five hundred (500) caps. Provided
   that nothing in this condition shall authorize any
   dealer to sell or dispose of to any one person more
   than the above-named quantities in any one month.

2. Every such dealer shall, before delivering any
   ammunition to any purchaser, require such purchaser
   to sign a receipt, in words at length without the use
   of any numeral figures, for the quantity of each sort
   of ammunition he shall receive from such dealer, with
   his name and address, and date of the day of receiving
   such ammunition. Failing in any of these particulars,
   the dealer shall refuse to deliver to the purchaser any
   of the ammunition, and shall refund any money paid
   for the same.

3. If any such dealer shall sell or dispose of any
   ammunition, with or without price or reward, to
   any other person, without taking such receipt, or
   shall within any one month sell or dispose of
   to the same person any quantity of ammunition
   exceeding the quantity mentioned in regulation 1
   hereof, the Licensing Officer may exercise his power
   of cancelling or withdrawing the license of such dealer.

4. Every such receipt shall be given by the pur-
   chaser, on receiving the ammunition, to the dealer,
   who shall keep the same.

5. The particulars of the receipt shall be copied by
   the dealer into the book required to be kept by such
   dealer under the provisions of section 14 of "The
   Arms Act, 1860."

6. Every receipt shall be produced, on demand, to
   any Licensing Officer, or person duly authorized by
   him to require the same.

Ammunition for Destruction of Rabbits.

7. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs,
   or Officer of Police may, in his discretion, grant
   to any applicant a permit for an increased quan-
   tity of ammunition not exceeding twenty-five
   pounds (25 lbs.) of gunpowder, and a proportionate
   quantity of shot and caps, when satisfied that it is
   required for the destruction of rabbits upon stations
   and the like, and that it will be used for those pur-
   poses. Every such sale of an increased quantity of
   ammunition under this regulation shall, so far only
   as the same relate to the receipt to be taken by the
   dealer, be subject to the regulations numbered 2 to 6
   hereof inclusive.

Powder for Blasting or Mining.

8. Any one or more Justices of the Peace may,
   in pursuance of the 23rd section of "The Arms Act
   Amendment Act, 1869," grant to any person desirous
   of buying gunpowder for the purpose of blasting
   or mining, a certificate authorizing such person to
   buy any quantity of gunpowder to be specified in
   such certificate to be applied to such purpose, upon
   being satisfied that such gunpowder is wanted for
   such purpose, and that the applicant is, in his or
   their judgment, a fit person to be intrusted there-
   with.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of February, 1877.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS by "The Native Land Act, 1873," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to divide the
colony into districts for the purposes of the said
Act, and the limits of such districts from time to
time to alter as occasion may require:

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the
eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-four, the Governor, in pursuance of
the power and authority vested in him, did order and
declare that the colony should be divided into dis-
tricts for the purposes of the said Act, as respectively
defined in the Schedule thereunder written:

And whereas by a Proclamation made under the
said Act, dated the fifteenth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, a certain
portion of the colony, as defined in the Schedule
thereto, was excluded from the operation of the said
Act, and such Proclamation has now been revoked:

And whereas it is expedient that the portion of the
colony hitherto excluded from the operation of the
said Act as hereinbefore mentioned should be included
in the districts constituted thereunder as and in
manner hereinafter provided:

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 by the said recited
Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Colony, do hereby
order and declare, that the several districts consti-
tuted under the said Act by the said in part recited
Order in Council of the eighteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, shall
be and the same are hereby altered, by including
therein the portion of the colony hitherto excluded
therefrom as aforesaid, and do hereby further order
and declare that the said districts, as originally estab-
lished and defined by the said in part recited Order
in Council, shall be districts for the purposes of the
said Act.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegation of Governor's Powers under Sections 7
and 10 of "Marine Act, 1867," to the Lyttelton
Harbour Board.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of February, 1877.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W
HEREAS by the ninth section of "The Harbour
Boards Act, 1870," it is, among other things,
enacted, that the Governor may, by Order in Council,
from time to time, delegate to any Harbour Board
constituted thereunder all or any of the powers and
authorities vested in him by the provisions contained
in the seventh and tenth sections of "The Marine
Act, 1867," subject to any regulations, restrictions,
or stipulations that may be specified in such Order:

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly
of the colony intituled "The Lyttelton Harbour
Board Act, 1876," a Harbour Board was constituted
for the Port of Lyttelton, and which Board was