direct that the said Order in Council, dated the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and the regulations contained therein and prescribed thereby, shall be wholly revoked, and with the like advice and consent do hereby order and direct that the powers and duties of the Commissioners named in the said Commission, of even date herewith, shall be exercised and performed, and the business of the said Commission conducted according to the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto.

F. D. Fenton, Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

Regulations.

1. Whenever any exchange of land has been authorized or effected without the consent of the original owner or owners of the land taken to be so given in exchange, the consent in writing of such owner or owners, or of their duly authorized agent, shall be obtained if possible.

2. When the original owner, whose land is proposed to be taken and granted in exchange without his consent, is an absentee from the Province of Taranaki, a notice specifying the name of such original owner, the number and acreage of the section to be taken and of that to be given in exchange for it, and calling upon such owner to appear by himself or agent before the Commissioners, shall be inserted in the New Zealand Government Gazette, and at least three times in the Times newspaper of London, unless the owner is known to be within the Colony.

3. The day fixed for the appearance of such absentee owner shall be at least four months after the date of the insertion of the last of such advertisements in the Times.

4. If the owner is known to be within the Colony of New Zealand, a notice to the above effect should be inserted in the New Zealand Gazette, and at least three times in some newspaper in circulation within the Province of Taranaki. The day for the appearance in such case shall be at least two months after the insertion of the notice.

5. If on the day appointed the absentee owner does not appear in his own person or by agent, the Commissioners will proceed and investigate and decide the case in his absence.

6. Provided that before any land is authorized to be taken for exchange without the consent of the original owner, the Commissioner shall publish in the Government Gazette of New Zealand, and in some newspaper published in Taranaki, a statement specifying the section to be taken, and that to be given in exchange, with the name of the original owner and proposed grantee of each, and a certificate under the hands of the Commissioners of the actual value of each of the sections given and taken.

7. Provided further that no such exchange shall be confirmed by the Commissioners until a week at least after the insertion of such certificate in the newspaper as aforesaid.

8. The Commissioners shall be at liberty to charge a fee of five shillings per section in respect of every certificate issued by them to any person or persons except the Superintendent of Taranaki.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted, that when any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare by proclamation his disallowance of such Bill; and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein.

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified has been enacted by the Superintendent of Taranaki with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof: and the said Ordinance was received by the Governor on the seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance should be disallowed:

Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, namely:

"Furry Ordinance, 1867."

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, this... day of... 1868.