THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1087

meeting the burgess list so prepared as aforesaid was
amended, and all alterations were initialled by the
Mayor, and such burgess list was signed and certi-
fied by the Mayor and two other members of the
Council, as required by the forty-sixth section of
"The Municipal Corporations Act 1876:" And
whereas it is expedient to validate the said pro-
ceedings:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in
exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in me by "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1876," do hereby order that the times within which
the said several things are required to be done by
the said Act be extended from the days in that
behalf specified in the said Act up to and inclusive
of the several days and times hereinbefore in that
behalf respectively mentioned. And with the like
advice and consent I do hereby further order that
the said several things so done as aforesaid, so far as
the same have been respectively done after the times
limited by the said Act, or have otherwise been ir-
regularly done in matter or form, but not further or
otherwise, shall be and the same are hereby validated,
and that the burgess roll so amended as aforesaid
shall be the burgess roll of the said borough. And
with the like advice and consent I do hereby extend
the time for the election of Auditors of the said
borough until the eighth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Northern Judicial District assigned to the Chief
Justice.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of July, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to divide the
colony into judicial 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 that the
Governor in Council shall assign every such district
to a Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court, who
shall have, within the same, all the powers and juris-
diction thereby given to the said Court:

And whereas the Northern District, as defined
by a Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette,
dated the tenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, has been assigned to
Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Esquire, one of the
Judges of the said Court:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Northern
District should also be assigned to James Prender-
gast, Esquire, the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and exercise of all powers enabling him
in this behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, also
assign the said Northern District, as defined by the
said Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine, unto

JAMES PRENDERGAST, Esquire,
the Chief Justice of the said Court.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Persons entitled to Land under "The Immigrants
Land Act, 1875."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of July, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Immigrants Land Act
Amendment Act, 1875," it is enacted that, in
any case where any person who, since the passing of
"The Immigrants Land Act, 1873" (hereinafter re-
ferred to as "the said Act"), and prior to the coming
into operation of the now reciting Act, has paid his
own passage to the colony with the intention of
settling upon and cultivating land therein, and who
has omitted to obtain any certificate or to do any
other act by the said Act required to entitle him
to a free grant of land thereunder, whether such
omission shall have occurred prior to or after arrival
in the colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
Order in Council, on receiving proof that such person
had a bonâ fide intention to comply with the said Act,
to direct and declare that such person shall have and
be entitled to all the privileges and benefits which
he would have had under the said Act but for such
omission as aforesaid. And, further, that every such
Order in Council shall state specifically the nature of
the omission in respect of which such order shall be
made, and shall be forthwith published in the New
Zealand Gazette; and thereupon the person named
in such Order in Council shall have all the privileges
and benefits which he would have had but for such
omission as aforesaid:

And whereas proof has been received by the
Governor that the person mentioned in the first
column of the Schedule hereto has paid his own
passage to the colony with the intention of settling
upon and cultivating land therein, and also that he
had a bond fide intention to comply with the said
Act, but has omitted to do the acts mentioned in the
second column of the said Schedule, by the said Act
required to entitle him to a free grant of land there-
under:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and in
exercise and pursuance of the power and authority
vested in him by the said "Immigrants Land Act
Amendment Act, 1875," doth hereby direct and
declare that the person mentioned in the first column
of the Schedule hereto shall have and be entitled to
all the privileges and benefits which he would have
had under the said Act but for such omission as
aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.