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aforesaid fix and determine whether all or any, and, if so, what part, of the cost, whether theretofore incurred or thereafter to be incurred, of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing any such bridge is to be provided and paid by any local authority or authorities, and, if so, by what local authority or authorities; and may by any such Proclamation as aforesaid direct how, and when, and to whom any such payment is to be made:

And whereas by the said Act it is further provided that the Governor may from time to time, with the view of determining whether it is expedient to vest the exclusive care, control, management, and maintenance of any such work in any local authority, direct any person to be a Commissioner to inquire into and report to him upon any matter which he shall deem necessary to enable him to determine any such question as aforesaid:

And whereas a Commissioner was appointed and an inquiry was duly held with a view to determining what local authority could most conveniently and efficiently control the bridge mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and what proportion of the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge should be paid by any, and, if so, which, local authority or authorities: And whereas such Commissioner did report to the Governor, after due inquiry, his opinion as to the matters respecting which he was appointed to report:

And whereas it is expedient to make provision under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto, known as “Mangatangi Bridge,” shall, from and after the date of this Proclamation, be under the exclusive care, and control, and management of the Whangamarino Road Board; and in further pursuance of the aforesaid powers and authorities I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be provided and paid by the local authorities hereinafter mentioned as follows—viz., by the Whangamarino Road Board sixty-eight per centum of such cost, by the Mercer Road Board sixteen per centum of such cost, and by the Pokeno Road Board sixteen per centum of such cost.

And I do hereby also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Mercer and Pokeno Road Boards shall be paid from time to time respectively in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Road Boards, in each case within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Whangamarino Road Board, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the said Road Board for and on account of such Road Board.

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SCHEDULE.

That bridge over the Mangatangi River known as the Mangatangi Bridge, situated in Block IV., Maramarua Survey District, on the road from Pokeno to Whangamarino Road District: as the site of the said bridge is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 27541, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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“The Deceased Husband’s Brother Marriage Act, 1900,” assented to by His Majesty in Council.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,

ROBERT STOUT.

(L.S.)

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of the Sovereign’s pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said colony shall signify, by speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before the Sovereign in Council, and that the Sovereign has been pleased to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said colony, entitled “An Act to legalise Marriage with the Brother of a Deceased Husband” (the Short Title whereof is “The Deceased Husband’s Brother Marriage Act, 1900”), was presented to the officer administering the government of the said colony for Her late Majesty’s assent, and the said Bill was reserved by the said officer for the signification of Her late Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in-part-recited Act, do by this Proclamation signify and proclaim to all whom it may concern that the said Bill has been laid before His Majesty in Council, and that His Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

WM. HALL-JONES.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Terms and Conditions of Lease of Village-Settlement Lands in Wellington.

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RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of May, 1901.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the one-hundred-and-sixty-ninth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands in any village settlement shall be disposed of, subject as in the said section is provided: And whereas by a Proclamation made under the said Act on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one, the lands described in the First Schedule hereto have been set apart under the said Act and declared open for lease as village settlements, and it is expedient to fix the terms and conditions upon which the said lands shall be disposed of:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby fix the terms and conditions on which the lands mentioned in the First Schedule hereto shall be disposed of by way of lease in perpetuity, and which said terms and conditions are set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are village-homestead allotments, open for selection on lease