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and it is expedient to make an amendment
therein ;

Now therefore, his Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth make
the following additional Regulation for the
Ports and Harbours aforesaid ; that is to say—

No vessel shall be moved on Sunday from
her anchorage, or from her berth alongside
any quay or wharf, except the state-of the
weather or the safety of the vessel renders it
necessary, without the express permission in
writing of the Harbour Master, under a
penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Costs of Management of Otago Gold Fields
to be regulated by Acts of Provincial Council.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1861.

Present :—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the "Gold
Fields Act, 1858," that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council under his
hand and the Public Seal of the Colony from
time to time to delegate to the Superintendent
of any Province, or to such other person as
the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the
powers vested in the Governor, or the Gover-
nor in Council, by the said Act, except the
powers conferred by sections 7, 8, 15, 27, and
40, thereof, subject or not subject to any limi-
tations or restrictions as he may think fit:
And it is further provided that whenever the
Governor shall have delegated to the Super-
intendent of any Province all or any of the
aforesaid powers, it shall be lawful for the
Governor by Order in Council to appoint and
declare that all the costs, charges, and ex-
penses incident to the management and ad-
ministration of the Gold Fields within such
Province shall be regulated by Acts or Or-
dinances to be passed by the Superintendent
and Provincial Council of such Province :
And whereas by an instrument in writing
dated the 8th day of June, 1861, issued
under the public seal of the Colony, the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, and in ex-
ercise of the before recited power, did dele-
gate absolutely and without restriction unto
John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esq., as
Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in
the said Colony, all the aforesaid powers, ex-
cept those before recited to be excepted,
to hold and exercise the said powers within
the Province of Otago aforesaid :—

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, in pursuance and in exercise of the power
and authority for this purpose by the said
Act conferred, doth hereby, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, appoint and declare that all the costs,
charges and expenses incident to the manage-
ment and administration of the Gold Fields
within the Province of Otago shall be regu-
lated by Acts to be passed by the Superin-
tendent and Provincial Council of the said
Province.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

DUNEDIN MILITIA REGULATIONS.

BY virtue, and in exercise of the authority
in me vested by the "Militia Act, 1858,"
and the "Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860,"
I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make and
issue the following orders for the regulation of
the Dunedin Battalion of Militia.

1. The Dunedin Militia District shall not
   be devided, but the Dunedin Regiment shall
   constitute one Battalion.

2. Such Battalion shall be divided into three
   classed.

3. The first class shall consist of all un-
   married men and widowers without children
   between the ages of sixteen years and forty
   years, both inclusive, who shall be called the
   first-class service men.

4. The second class shall consist of all
   married men and widowers with children,
   between the same ages, who shall be called
   second-class service men.

5. The third class shall consist of all men
   between the ages of forty years and fifty-five
   years, who shall be called the reserve men.

6. The men of the several classes shall be
   formed by the senior officer of the Battalion
   into one or more Company or Companies, he
   having regard in such formation to secure, as
   far as possible, contiguity of residence of the
   men in each Company.

T. GORE BROWNE.

Government House,
Auckland, 30th July, 1861.

CUSTOMS.

GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

Appointing Oamaru a Port of Entry.
No. 10.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over her Majesty's Colony of
New Zealand and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c.

IN exercise of the power in me for this pur-
pose vested by the "Customs Regulation
Act, 1858," I, Thomas Gore Browne, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby appoint that on and from the day of
the date hereof there shall be within the Pro-
vince of Otago, a Port to be called the Port of
Oamaru, the limits whereof shall be as fol-
lows:—

The Coast line between the mouth of the
Kaiarero Creek on the south, and the northern
boundary of the Town of Oamaru on the
north.

Given under my hand, at Auckland,
this first day of August, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.