No greater amount of land than

(1.) two hundred and fifty acres shall,
under the provisions of this clause,
be granted to any person under
any such contract, unless in pay-
ment of work for which a vote
has been passed by the Provincial
Council.

(2.) No greater amount of land than
one thousand acres in the aggre-
gate shall in any one year be
granted under the provisions of
this clause, without the special
recommendation of the Provincial
Council, confirmed by the Governor
in Council, by a Proclamation
to be issued in the ‘New Zealand
Gazette.’

And whereas the Provincial Council
of the Province of Southland did, on the
third day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight, pass a
Resolution in the words and figures fol-
lowing, that is to say, ‘That this Council
specially recommends, in terms of clause
36 of “The Southland Waste Lands Act,
1865,” that a grant of land, not exceeding
25,000 acres, be made for works
in Southland known as Oreti and Bluff
Harbor and Invercargill Railways:’
And whereas it is expedient that the said
recommendation should be confirmed in
the manner provided by the said Act,
and that a grant or grants, to an extent
not exceeding twenty-five thousand acres
of land in the whole, should be authorized
for the purpose in the said Resolution
specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the
Governor, in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority conferred on
him in this behalf by the said Act, and
with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth
hereby order that the said recommen-
dation shall be confirmed, and doth hereby
confirm the same.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by ‘The Petty Sessions
Act, 1865,’ it is enacted that, as
soon as conveniently may be after the
establishment of a Petty Sessions Dis-
trict, and afterwards from time to time
as may be deemed expedient, the Gover-
nor shall, by proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, appoint a meeting of
the Justices of the Peace resident in such
district to be yearly held within such
district, at some specified time and place,
for the purpose of choosing a Chairman
of Petty Sessions and settling a rota of
attendance: And whereas, by a Pro-
clamation bearing date the fourth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, His Excellency the
Governor did proclaim that the first
Tuesday in the month of December
should be the day on which, and the
Court House at Riverton, and the Police
Barracks, Gore, should be the respective
places at which, should be held the
yearly meetings for the Riverton and
Mataura Districts (as defined in an
Order in Council bearing date the twenty-
second day of July last), for the purpose
of choosing a Chairman of Petty Sessions
and settling a rota of attendance: And
whereas no meeting was held at the
places appointed on the first Tuesday in
the month of December last:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand,
in pursuance and in exercise of all powers
and authorities in that behalf vested in
me, do hereby revoke so much of the
said Proclamation of the fourth day of
November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, as relates to the appoint-
ment of the time and place of meeting
of the Justices of the Peace for the said
Riverton and Mataura Districts, for the
purpose of choosing a Chairman of
Petty Sessions and settling a rota of
attendance, and do hereby proclaim and
appoint a meeting of the Justices of the
Peace for the said Riverton and Mataura
Districts respectively to be yearly held
within such districts at the Court House
at Riverton, and at Mr James Pollock’s
Inn at the Mataura Bridge, at twelve
O’clock noon, on the first Wednesday in
March, for the purpose of choosing a
Chairman of Petty Sessions and settling
a rota of attendance.

Given under the hand of His Excel-
lency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint
George, Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over
Her Majesty’s colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
at the Government House, at
Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony,
this twenty-eighth day of
January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.

E. W. Stafford,
God Save The Queen!