573

of Southland, intituled—

"The Church of England Cemetery Ordinance, 1864,"

which Bill was reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

WILLIAM FOX.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 14th September, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, has been pleased to delegate, under the “Diseased Cattle Act 1861,” to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of—

Auckland, Marlborough,
Taranaki, Canterbury,
Wellington, Otago, and
Hawke’s Bay, Southland,
Nelson,

the several powers vested in the Governor by the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

WILLIAM FOX.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, September 26th, 1864.)

A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty’s Assent to a certain Bill passed by the General Assembly.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the most Honorable 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, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled “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 Her Majesty’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 Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty 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, in tituled

“An Act to amend the Laws now in force for the Sale, Letting, Occupation, and Disposal, of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Southland,”

was presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty’s assent, and the said Bill was reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor 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 Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under my hand and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

WALLACETOWN PUBLIC POUND.

IMPOUNDED August 23rd, 1864, one chesnut gelding, white tip on forehead, branded like B near shoulder. If not claimed to be sold at the pound here on Saturday, 12th day of November, 1864, at 12 o’clock noon.

F. PELLING,
Poundkeeper.

ERRATA.

Gazette No. 29, Vol. 2, Page 560.

RIVERTON JETTY.

Under one ton and over half-a-ton 3d., should read “6d.”

OMISSION:—Under ½ ton and over ¼ ton 3d.