REGULATIONS.

All acts and appointments done and made by the said Superintendent under the foregoing Delegation shall be provisional until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor; and the Governor shall have power to disallow the same.

The Superintendent shall report without delay to the Governor all such acts and appointments.

The Superintendent shall lay before the Provincial Council of the said Province every such act and appointment at the Session of the said Council next following.

The Provincial Council of the said Province may, through their Speaker, transmit to the Governor any Resolutions respecting any such act or appointment.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this fourteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency's command,

William Fox.

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 66, December 23, 1863.]

A WARRANT,

Constituting Petty Sessional Districts (in Otago).

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

WHEREAS by the "Petty Sessions Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by notice in the New Zealand Gazette to constitute Petty Sessional Districts in any part of the Colony, and such Districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define and alter as he shall think fit: And Whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the tenth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, certain Districts under the said Act were constituted in the Provinces of Otago, Wellington, and Nelson. And Whereas it is expedient to alter the Districts so constituted within the Province of Otago.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, Governor as aforesaid, do hereby abolish the Petty Sessional Districts so constituted as aforesaid, for the Province of Otago, and do constitute the following Districts in such Province to be Petty Sessional Districts under the said Act.

Province of Otago.

Oamaru District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the Canterbury Province, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Kakanui Mountains, and on the West by the Hawkdun and Dunstan Mountains.

Hawkesbury District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the Oamaru District, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Waitaki River, Silver Peak Hills, the Taieri and Sutton, and on the West by the Rock and Pillar Mountain, thence by those ranges to Deep Dell Creek, by the Deep Dell Creek and the ranges to the Kakanui Mountains.

Dunedin District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by Hawkesbury District, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Taieri and Waipori Rivers, and on the West by the Maungatua Ranges.

Tokomairiro District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the Dunedin District, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Waihola, Fraser, and Lovel's Creeks, and on the West by Stuart's and Waitahuna Ranges.

Tuapeka District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the ranges between Mount Benger and the Lammerlaw, on the East by Dunedin and Tokomairiro Districts, on the South by Dull Burn, Waitahuna and Clutha Rivers, and on the West by Black Cleugh Burn and the ranges running from Tapanui Hill to Mount Benger.

Molyneux District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the Umbrella Ranges, Tuapeka, and Tokomairiro Districts, on the East by the Ocean, on the South by the Ocean, and on the West by the Mataura river.

Dunstan District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the Province of Canterbury and Oamaru District, on the East by Maniototo, on the South by Tuapeka District, and on the West by the Umbrella, Cairn-muir, Pisa, and Earnslaw Ranges.

Wakatipu District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by the Canterbury Province, in the East by Dunstan and Molyneux Districts, on the South by the Province of Southland and the Ocean, and on the West by the Ocean.

Mount Ida District, comprising all that area bounded on the North by Oamaru District, on the East by Hawksbury and Dunedin Districts, on the South by Tuapeka District, and on the West by Rough Ridge, thence to the Hawkdun Mountains.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, this sixteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency's command,

William Fox.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 68, December 30, 1863.]

ORDER IN COUNCIL

Establishing Marine Board.

G. Grey,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the fourteenth day of December, 1863.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Marine Board Act, 1863," it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of the said Act, establish a Board, to be called "The Marine Board of New Zealand:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby establish the said Marine Board of New Zealand, and doth appoint:

CHARLES SHARP, Esq., to be President and Master Warden of the said Marine Board of New Zealand; and doth also appoint:

ROBERT JOHNSON, Esq.,
THOMAS ROBERTSON, Esq.,
ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, Esq., and
WILLIAM CAUSH DALDY, Esq.