or district works, shall cause a survey to be made
and plans to be prepared showing generally the
nature of the works proposed to be executed and the
lands required to be taken for the same, together
with the names of the owners and occupiers of such
lands as far as they can be ascertained, and shall
cause a copy of such plans to be deposited in some
place in the road district in which such lands are:
And it is further enacted that the said Minister in
the case of Government works, and the County
Council or Road Board in the case of county works
or district works, shall cause a notice to be gazetted,
and to be twice publicly notified, stating the place
where such plans are open for inspection, with a
general description of the works proposed to be
executed and of the land required to be taken, and
in such notice shall call upon all persons affected to
set forth in writing any well-founded objections to
the execution of such works or to the taking of such
lands, and to send such writing within forty days
from the first publication of such notice to the said
Minister, or to the County Council or Road Board,
as the case may be: And it is further enacted that
the Minister for Public Works, the County Council,
or Road Board, as the case may be, shall cause a copy
of such notice and description to be served upon the
said owners and occupiers so far as they can be ascer-
tained; and that the said Minister in the case of
Government works, the Council in the case of county,
and the Board in the case of district works, shall,
upon receiving any objection, appoint a time and
place within the colony within which the objector
may appear before the said Minister, or some person
appointed by him in the case of Government works,
before the Council in the case of county, or before
the Board in the case of district works, and support
the objection by such evidence as the objector thinks
fit; and that if within the said forty days no such
objection is made, or if after due consideration of
such objections the said Minister, or the County
Council, or Road Board, as the case may be, is of
opinion that it is expedient that the proposed works
should be executed, and that no private injury
will be done thereby for which due compensation is
not provided by the Act now in recital, the land
proposed to be taken shall be taken in the following
manner that is to say, the said Minister, or the
County Council, or Road Board, shall lay before the
Governor a memorial containing an accurate descrip-
tion of the land proposed to be taken, together with
a map thereof, signed by the Surveyor-General or
some certificated surveyor as evidence of the accu-
racy thereof; and the Governor in Council may
thereupon, if he think fit, by Proclamation gazetted
and publicly notified, declare that the said lands are
taken for the use of a railway, road, or other public
work, as the case may be; and from and after a date
to be named in the said Proclamation the land therein
specified shall become absolutely vested in fee-simple
in Her Majesty, discharged from all mortgages,
charges, claims, estates, or interests of what kind
soever, for the public use named in the said Pro-
clamation:

And whereas the lands described in the memorial
above written are required to be taken under the
authority of the said "Public Works Act, 1876," for
a certain public work-to wit, the construction of a
road through Allotment number twelve, of Section
number eleven, of the Suburbs of Auckland, Parish
of Waitemata, and County of Eden:

And whereas all the requirements and conditions
prescribed by the said Act prior to the taking of such
lands have been duly performed and fulfilled:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, Governor of New Zealand, in
exercise and pursuance of the power and authority in
me vested by the said Act, and of any other power
and authority enabling me in that behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the lands described in the
memorial above written, and shown on the plan
thereto attached, are hereby taken for the purposes
of a road; and that from and after the day of
the date hereof the said lands shall become abso-
lutely vested in fee-simple in Her Majesty, dis-
charged from all mortgages, charges, claims, estates,
and interests of what kind soever, for use as a public
road.

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 Grand Cross 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
the Government House, at Wellington,
this fourteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.

G. S. WHITMORE,
Minister acting for the Minister for
Public Works.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclaiming Ross a Borough under "The Municipal
Corporations Act, 1876."

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876," the Governor
is empowered by Proclamation to declare any dis-
trict in New Zealand to be a borough under the
said Act, from and after a day to be named in such
Proclamation:

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 Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that the District of
Ross shall be and the same is hereby constituted, as
from the first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, a borough under the said
Act; and that the name of such borough shall be the
Borough of Ross, and that the boundaries of such
borough shall be those specified in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDED by a line commencing at a peg below
Donogue's, at the most westerly corner of Block
XXXIX.; thence along the Ocean Beach to the
mouth of the Totara River; thence along the southern
bank of the Totara River to its junction with Don-
nelly's Creek; thence along the western bank of
Donnelly's Creek to the Jones's Creek Storm
Channel; thence by said Storm Channel and Jones's