Alfred Domett,
Registrar-General of Land.

That Court, the Crown Grant of the same land cannot be registered until the said Judge shall have notified that payment of such fees has been made.

Colonial Defence Office.
Wellington, 10th February, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the undersigned officer, viz:—

Captain Richard Kenrick, Patea Light Horse Volunteers.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette to declare that from a day to be in such proclamation fixed, sections one hundred and five to one hundred and fifteen, both inclusive, having special reference to persons of the Native race, or such of those sections as shall be in such proclamation specified, shall come into operation in such districts of the Colony as shall be in such proclamation specified, and until so proclaimed, and in places not included in any such district, such sections shall not be in force, and by like proclamation to alter or re-define such districts or cancel any proclamation so declaring such sections or any of them to have come into force:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the seventh day of March next, sections one hundred and five, one hundred and six, one hundred and seven, one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred and ten, one hundred and eleven, one hundred and twelve, and one hundred and thirteen, of “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” having special reference to persons of the Native race, shall come into operation within the following Resident Magistrates’ districts, as the same are defined in a proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven—

The Mongonui District,
The Bay of Islands District,
The Whangarei District,
The Kaipara District,
The Auckland District, northwards of the Waitemata,
The Coromandel District,
The Hauraki District,
The Maketu District,
The Opotiki District,
The Taupo District,
The Waikato District,
The Raglan District,
The Tauranga District,
The Matamata District,
The Waiapu District,
The Waipukurau District,
The Napier District,
The New Plymouth District, beyond ten miles from the Court House,
The Upper Wanganui District,
The Wanganui District.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me in this behalf I do hereby proclaim and declare that the one hundred and seventh, one hundred and eighth, one hundred and ninth, one hundred and tenth, one hundred and eleventh, one hundred and twelfth, and one hundred and thirteenth sections of the said Act shall, from the seventh day of March next come into operation within the other Resident Magistrates’ districts mentioned in the said proclamation of the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. Stafford,
God Save the Queen!

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1868.

Present:
His Excellency THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,” it is enacted that the fees to be taken in respect of the said Act shall be fixed as the Governor in Council shall from time to time direct and appoint:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby direct and appoint that in addition to the fees specified in the Schedules E and F to the said Act, the fees specified in the Schedule hereto shall be taken under “The Resident Magistrates’ Act, 1867,” by Resident Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, and their clerks, for and in respect