380

to consent to a modification of this pro-
vision, and this Department is no longer
bound to adhere to the quarter-ounce scale
in collecting the French rate.

On the 1st June next, therefore, it is
intended to collect the whole postage on
letters forwarded from the United King-
dom to India, China, Australia, &c.,
through France, entirely by the scale in
operation for letters forwarded via South-
ampton, and instead of threepence per
quarter ounce, to levy fourpence up to
the weight of half an ounce, to cover the
payment made to France.

The following Table shows the postage
that will thenceforth be chargeable:—

I am to request that this alteration may
be communicated to the Officers adminis-
tering the Government of the several
Colonies mentioned in the above table,
and that they may be instructed to bring
the new charges into operation, as regards
letters sent to the United Kingdom, as
early as possible.

I am, &c.,
(Signed) F. HILL.

Sir Frederick Rogers, Bart.,
&c., &c., &c.,
Colonial Office.

Notice to Coroners and Justices of the
Peace holding Inquests.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Auckland, 5th September, 1863.

THE attention of Coroners and Justices
of the Peace is requested to the fol-
lowing Extracts from “The Registration
Act, 1858”:—

SECTION XIII.

“In case any new-born child, or any
dead body shall be found exposed, a Con-
stable of the District shall forthwith in-
form the Registrar thereof, and of the
place where such child or dead body was
found; and where an inquest shall be held
on any dead body, the Coroner or Justice
of the Peace holding the same shall notify
to the Registrar of the District the Ver-
dict of the Jury, with all other particu-
lars required to be registered concerning
the death, and such Registrar shall make
the entry in his Register Book accord-
ingly, and the same shall be signed by
the Coroner or Justice of the Peace, by
whom the information has been given.

SECTION XX.

Every Registrar, immediately upon
registering any death, or as soon there-
after as he shall be required so to do, shall
without fee or reward deliver to the person
giving information, or to the undertaker
or other person having charge of the
funeral, a certificate under his hand ac-
cording to the form in Schedule C, hereto
annexed, that such death has been duly
registered; and such Certificate shall be
delivered by such undertaker or other per-
son to the minister or officiating person
who shall be required to bury or perform
any funeral or religious service for the
burial; and if any dead body shall be
buried, for which no certificate shall have
been so delivered, the person who shall
bury the same, or perform any funeral
or religious service for the burial, or who
shall in any other way dispose of the
body, shall forthwith give notice of the
facts to the Registrar: Provided always,
that the Coroner or Justice of the Peace
holding any inquest upon any dead body
for which no certificate shall have been
delivered as aforesaid, may order the body
to be buried, if he shall think fit, before
registration; and he shall in such case give
a certificate of his order in writing under
his hand in the form in Schedule D,
hereby annexed, to the undertaker or
other person having charge of the funeral.

The following is the form of the cer-
tificate (Schedule D.) referred to in the
foregoing Extracts:—

I, C. D., Coroner for the District of
(or Justice of the Peace) do
hereby order the burial of the body now
shown to the Inquest Jury as the body of
Witness my hand, this day of 18 .

(Signed) C. D.,
Coroner or Justice of the Peace.

J. B. BENNET,
Registrar-General.

Printed for the Provincial Government by Daniel Campbell, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.