Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, August 7, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint in the place of E. S. Willcocks, Esq., resigned,

HARRY EYRE KENNY, Esq.,
to be Registration Officer to form Provincial Rolls for the Province of Taranaki.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, August 7, 1867.

THE following Ordinance passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, intituled

“The Town Board of New Plymouth Endowment Ordinance, 1867”

which Ordinance 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.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. GREY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the tenth day of August, 1867.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Marine Act, 1866,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council, may, from time to time, make such regulations as may be deemed expedient respecting the mooring and unmooring of vessels in any port; the packing, landing, deposit, and removal of gunpowder, the erection of magazines for the safe keeping thereof; the watering, ballasting, and discharging of ballast of or from vessels; and also in all cases in which no provision or no sufficient provision is made by the said Act for the purpose of facilitating or more effectually carrying into execution any of the objects thereof, to make and prescribe all such regulations, either general or applicable to particular cases only, as he shall think fit; and such regulations from time to time revoke or alter, as to the Governor in Council shall appear to be requisite:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above recited power and authority, doth hereby make the following regulations respecting the use of the moorings and the ballasting of vessels at the Port of New Plymouth, and doth order that the same shall come into operation and take effect from and after the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

REGULATIONS.

Mooring Charges.

For every vessel using the moorings not exceeding fifty tons register—Twenty Shillings.

For every vessel using the moorings over fifty but not exceeding one hundred tons register—Thirty Shillings.

With an addition of Ten Shillings for every additional hundred tons, or fractional part thereof; and a further charge of Five Shillings a day on every vessel lying at the moorings for more than four days during which cargo can be landed from her.

These charges shall be deemed to be Port Charges, and the provisions of the forty-fourth section of “The Marine Act, 1866,” shall be applicable thereto.

Ballast.

The master of every vessel using the moorings of the Port of New Plymouth shall furnish to the Harbour Master an approximate statement showing the number of tons weight of goods he intends discharging in the port, and the number of tons of ballast which will be required to keep the vessel in proper seaworthy trim; and every such master of a vessel shall, as his vessel is discharged, take in from time to time sufficient ballast to keep her continually in seaworthy trim. For refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this regulation, the master of any vessel shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds.

FOREST RANGING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

CROWN GRANTS.

THE Deeds of Grant below specified having been duly executed, are now ready for registration and delivery, on the following conditions:

The Grantee or his properly authorised representative, must, in the first place, make application to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the delivery of the Grant and pay the fee of One Pound for the Crown Grant and Twelve Shillings and Sixpence for registration.