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curring rate for twenty-six years, and payable in one sum at the Board’s office on the 1st day of April in each year.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed at a special meeting of the Manchester Road Board, held on Saturday, the 15th February, 1890, as required by the seventy-sixth section of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

CHARLES BRAY,
Clerk, Manchester Road Board.

Feilding, 17th February, 1890.

Despatch.—Acts assented to by the Queen.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1890.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

G. F. RICHARDSON,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

(New Zealand, No. 47.)

Downing Street, 20th December, 1889.

My LORD,—I have the honour to inform you that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to the following Acts of the Legislature of New Zealand, transcripts of which accompanied your Lordship’s Despatch No. 58, of the 15th October last:—

53° VICTORIA.

No. 1. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety.

No. 2. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety.

No. 3. An Act to extend the Operation of “The Registration of Births and Deaths Act Amendment Act, 1882,” in certain Cases.

No. 4. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety.

No. 5. An Act to amend “The Town Districts Act, 1881,”

No. 6. An Act to amend “The Representation Act, 1887.”

No. 7. An Act to amend “The Marriage Act, 1880.”

No. 8. An Act for removing Doubts as to the Validity of certain Marriages solemnised in the Provincial District of Otago.

No. 9. An Act relating to Post-cards and Postal Notes.

No. 10. An Act to amend “The Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 1877.”

No. 11. An Act to amend “The Mercantile Law Act, 1880.”

No. 12. An Act to amend the Law relating to Patents for Inventions, Registration of Designs, and of Trade-marks.

No. 13. An Act to consolidate and simplify the Law relating to Transfer of Chattels.

No. 14. An Act to amend the Law relating to Fire and Marine Insurance Companies carrying on Business in New Zealand.

No. 15. An Act to amend “The Savings-bank Act, 1858.”

No. 16. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Hearing of Evidence on Criminal Charges.

No. 17. An Act to amend the Law relating to certain Offences against the Person.

No. 18. An Act to continue “The Chinese Immigrants Act Amendment Act, 1888.”

No. 19. An Act to further amend “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and the Acts amending the same.

No. 20. An Act to enable Local Bodies to make Amended Requisitions in certain Cases.

No. 21. An Act to provide that Licensing Committees shall hold Office for the Term of Three Years.

No. 22. An Act to amend “The Licensing Act, 1881.”

No. 23. An Act to amend “The Animals Protection Act, 1880.”

No. 24. An Act to amend “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

No. 25. An Act to amend “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886.”

No. 26. An Act to declare the Trusts affecting Land acquired out of the Proceeds of the Sales of Educational Endowments.

No. 27. An Act to provide for a Revaluation of certain Lands held on Deferred Payment and Perpetual Lease respectively.

No. 28. An Act for the Further Investigation of all Claims to Land of Naval and Military Settlers and Volunteers.

No. 29. An Act to amend “The Land Transfer Act, 1885.”

No. 30. An Act to suspend the Operation of “The West Coast Settlement Reserves Acts Amendment Act, 1887,” and for other Purposes.

No. 31. An Act to amend the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Acts.

No. 32. An Act to amend “The Native Land Court Act, 1886,” and “The Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1888.”

No. 33. An Act to amend “The North Island Main Trunk Railway Loan Application Act, 1886.”

No. 34. An Act to impose a Property-tax.

No. 35. An Act to appropriate certain Sums of Money for Public Works and Other Purposes.

No. 36. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund and other Moneys to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand eight hundred and ninety, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this present Session.

Local and Personal Acts.

No. 1. An Act to validate an Order in Council and Proceedings subsequent thereto in respect of Land at Waipa.

No. 2. An Act to provide for the Better Management of the New Plymouth High School.

No. 3. An Act to grant an Allotment of Land within the Borough of Hawera to the Corporation thereof as an Endowment.

No. 4. An Act to provide for the Issue of a Certificate of Title to Orimakatea to certain Natives as a Reward for Military Services.

No. 5. An Act to enable the Governor to grant Warrants for Certificates of Title in certain Cases.

No. 6. An Act to provide for Further Investigation with respect to the Lands known as Ngarara and Waipiro.

No. 7. An Act to provide for the Determination of Titles to the Blocks of Land known as Poututu A, B, and C, Gisborne District.

No. 8. An Act to authorise a Grant of Land to Wi Pere, of Poverty Bay, an Aboriginal Half-caste Native of New Zealand, in Satisfaction of a certain Claim in the Muhunga Block of Land, in Poverty Bay.

No. 9. An Act for quieting the Title to certain Lands situate at Heretaunga, in the Hawke’s Bay County, and for making Provision for an Inalienable Reserve for certain Aboriginal Natives known as Ngatihori, who have occupied the Karamu Block.

No. 10. An Act to further amend “The Gisborne Harbour Act, 1884.”

No. 11. An Act to amend “The Napier Harbour Board Amendment and Endowment Improvement Act, 1887,” and to give Greater Powers to the Napier Harbour Board to provide for the Payment of Principal and Interest on any Loan to be raised for the Purposes of the said Act.

No. 12. An Act to validate certain Leases granted by the Napier High School Board.

No. 13. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Management of certain Trust Lands in the Masterton Small-farm Block, in the Wairarapa.

No. 14. An Act to enable the Council of the City of Wellington to enter into certain Special Arrangements relative to Water-supply, and to raise a Loan for Cemetery Purposes and for other Purposes.

No. 15. An Act to vest certain Lands in the Corporation of the Borough of Picton.

No. 16. An Act to vest in the Corporation of the City of Nelson certain Land below High-water Mark in the said City.

No. 17. An Act to authorise the Construction of certain Public Works at the Mouth of the Waimea River, in Blind Bay, Nelson.

No. 18. An Act to enable the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Brunner to make, raise, and levy Special Rates to provide for the Interest and Sinking Funds on certain Loans under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for the Erection of a Bridge within the said Borough, and for improving a certain Road within the said Borough.

No. 19. An Act relating to the Kumara Sludge-Channel.

No. 20. An Act to vest certain Land in the City of Christchurch in the Canterbury Society of Arts for the Purposes of an Art Gallery.

No. 21. An Act to amend “The Timaru High School Act 1878 Amendment Act, 1882.”

No. 22. An Act to vest in the Timaru Harbour Board certain Lands being Part of the Foreshore and Part of the Land covered by the Sea near the Borough of Timaru.

No. 23. An Act to amend “The Geraldine Raccourse Reserve Act, 1881.”

No. 24. An Act to empower the Education Board of the District of South Canterbury to sell certain Reserves for School Purposes and otherwise, and the