Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2623

Certificate under Section 8 of “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903.”

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903,” and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles Houghton Mills, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby revoke the Order No. 729 made by me, dated the 26th day of November, 1903, and gazetted on the 10th day of December, 1903, and in lieu thereof do hereby prescribe that the certificate referred to in section 8 of the above-mentioned Act shall be in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Commissioner’s Order No. 733.]

SCHEDULE.

CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 8 OF “THE PREFERENTIAL AND RECIPROCAL TRADE ACT, 1903.”

I [Full name], of the firm of , do hereby certify that this invoice, amounting to £ , for goods exported to New Zealand on account of [Name of person or firm to whom invoiced], is true and correct, and that the goods specified therein are bonâ fide the produce or manufacture of [Name of the part of the British Dominions in which the goods have been produced or manufactured].

(Signed) ___

Dated at , this day of ___, 190 __.

Standing Orders of the Legislative Council respecting Local and Private Bills.

Legislative Council,
Wellington, 19th November, 1903.

THE following Standing Orders relative to the introduction of local Bills in Parliament, as agreed to by the Legislative Council on the 19th November, 1903, are published for general information:—

I. Every Bill that affects some particular locality only, not being a private Bill, shall be deemed to be a local Bill.

II. A local Bill shall not be read a second time unless notice of the Bill has been given in the locality to which the Bill relates (hereinafter referred to as “the locality”).

III. Such notice shall state explicitly the objects that the Bill is intended to effect, and shall, before the Bill is read a second time, be published once at least in each of three successive weeks, on the same day in each week, in some newspaper circulating in the locality.

IV. On the first publication of such notice a copy of the Bill shall be deposited in the Magistrate’s Court nearest to the centre of the locality, and shall be open to public inspection for a period of three full weeks. At the expiration of that period the Magistrate or the Clerk of the Court shall certify under his hand on the face of such copy that the same was so deposited and remained open to public inspection for three full weeks, and shall stamp each page thereof with the seal of the Court, and shall initial each page, and shall then forward such copy so certified, stamped, and initialled to the Clerk of the House in which the Bill is to be introduced.

V. Where a local Bill purports to give power to deal with any lands, there shall also be deposited in the Magistrate’s Court plans or surveys of such lands certified by an authorised surveyor and drawn on one of the following scales, viz.: Where the lands to be dealt with are town or suburban lands, then on a scale of not less than 1 in. to 5 chains; and where the lands to be dealt with are other than town or suburban lands, then, if such lands be not more than ten square miles in extent, on a scale of not less than 2 in. to a mile, and, if such lands be more than ten square miles in extent, on a scale of not less than 1 in. to a mile.

VI. Where a local Bill purports to authorise the construction of harbour-works, or the raising of further loans for the completion of harbour-works already authorised, there shall likewise be deposited in the Magistrate’s Court plans of the proposed works, a statement of the financial position of the local authority promoting the Bill, and an estimate of the cost of construction of the proposed works and of the increased revenue to be derived therefrom.

VII. All such plans and surveys, and every such statement and estimate, shall be certified, stamped, and initialled by the Magistrate or Clerk in the same manner as the deposited copy of the Bill to which they refer, and shall be forwarded, together with such copy, to the Clerk of the House in which the Bill is to be introduced.

VIII. A Committee on Local Bills shall have power to confer with any Committee appointed for a like purpose by the other House of the General Assembly, or to sit and act with any such Committee as a Joint Committee.

IX. In any case where a Local Bills Committee or Joint Local Bills Committee have reported that any Bill is a local Bill, and that the Standing Orders have been complied with in respect thereof, but such Bill is not finally dealt with in the same session in which such report was made, then, if it be intended to reintroduce the Bill during the next succeeding session, notice of such intention shall be published in not less than two issues of some newspaper circulating in the locality; but it shall not be necessary to publish or make a second time all or any of the notices or deposits mentioned in the foregoing Standing Orders Nos. 342 to 344.

W. C. WALKER,
Speaker.

The following amended definition of a private Bill, as agreed to by the Legislative Council, is also published for general information:—

II. Private Bills shall be understood to be Bills promoted for the particular interest or benefit of, or Bills that interfere with the private property of, any person or number of persons, whether incorporated or not.

W. C. WALKER,
Speaker.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th November, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1904, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 31st January, 1904.

1. A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club whose membership is composed of a section of the community only, and if within a borough it must be open to the public free of charge. The receipts for the year from subscriptions and donations must not have been less than £2, exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. A subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

2. In the division of the vote a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will be divided according to the amounts thus augmented; but no library will receive credit for a larger income than £75—that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which distribution is based exceed £100.

3. The whole of the subsidy must be expended without delay in the purchase of books for the library.

4. Application to share in the distribution must be by means of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made, and must be accompanied by a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1903; and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, which form shall be as follows:—

DECLARATION.

I, [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation], do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary, or Treasurer] of the [Name of institution]; that during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1903, the receipts of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library only were as follows: From rates levied by a local governing body under “The Public Libraries Act, 1869,” or “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” pounds shillings and pence; from the subscriptions of members, pounds shillings and pence; and from voluntary contributions other than members’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and ___ pence. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that the information hereinafter furnished by me in the appendix hereto is correct in every particular; that the abstract of accounts is a true statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year herein specified; that the whole of the subsidy received during the year was