or other, disposal to be particularly de-
scribed in every such licence.

6. Every person to whom any such li-
   cense shall be granted, shall on the 1st
   days of January, April, July, and Octo-
   ber, or within fifteen days after each of
   those days respectively, make a return, in writing, to some one
   of the persons who shall have been em-
   powered to grant general licences as afore-
   said stating the particulars in respect of
   all the gunpowder, shot, and percussion
   caps sold or disposed of by such person
   during the three calendar months im-
   mediately preceding such days respec-
   tively, according to the Form B. in the
   Schedule hereto annexed, and every
   licence holder who shall neglect to make
   such return, or who shall wilfully make a
   false return, shall in addition to any
   penalties hereby incurred for want of com-
   pliance with the terms of this proclama-
   tion, be deemed to have forfeited his
   licence, which shall thenceforth be null
   and void; and no licence shall be again
   granted to him without the special au-
   thority of the Governor first obtained.

Arms and Ammunition for Personal Defence, &c.

7. Provided always, that nothing here-
   in contained, shall prevent any person
   coming into or leaving the Colony from landing
   such arms and ammunition as he may
   carry for personal defence, or for pur-
   poses of sporting, or shall apply to the
   importation and landing of supplies for
   the use of Her Majesty’s Land or Sea
   Forces.

Half Penalties to Persons Procuring Convictions.

8. And I do hereby Proclaim and de-
   clare, that for the more effectually de-
   tecting and preventing the unlawful im-
   portation, landing, sale, and disposal of
   arms, gunpowder, and other warlike
   stores, I will cause to be awarded to any
   person or persons who shall have been
   active in or towards the procuring of any
   conviction under the provisions of the
   said recited Ordinance, one half of the
   penalty which may be recovered by virtue
   hereof.

9. This Proclamation shall come into
   force in the Provinces of Auckland and
   New Plymouth on the first day of August next, and in the other four Provinces
   of the Colony, on the first day of October
   next.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, this twenty-fifth day of
June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven.

Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s Command,
W. Stafford.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Form A.

License to Import and Sell.

Pursuant to the authority vested in
me in that behalf by the Governor of
New Zealand, I, A.B., do hereby Li-
cense C.D., the having paid the sum of £2,
to Import, Land, Sell and Dispose
of Gunpowder, Shot fit for sporting pur-
poses, and Percussion Caps, during
twelve calendar months from the date
hereof. Provided always that this Li-
cense may be revoked by the Governor,
or any person authorised by him in that
behalf, by notice to that effect, to be left
at the usual or last known place of abode
or business of the licensee, and in such
case the fee paid for the license, and in
such case the fee paid for the licence
revoked will be returned.

Dated the day of 185_

C.D.

The above license is granted, subject
to the following conditions, viz.—

[Insert here Special conditions, if any.]

Note.—A return in the Form pre-
scribed by the Proclamation of the twenty-
fifth day of June, 1857, must be made
to some person authorized to grant Li-
censes on the first days of January,
April, July, and October, or within fifteen
days of every such day, or this License
will be void, and penalties incurred un-
der the "Arms Importation Ordinance."
A copy of the Form in which the return
is to be made is printed at the back
of this License.

• • *This Proclamation does not affect
    the provisions of the "Arms Ordinance,"
    Sess. 7, No. 18. Under that Ordinance,
    the following Licenses will be re-
    quired, (the Governor having no power
    under its provisions to dispense with
    them), viz:—

1. A License from a Justice of the
   Peace to authorize the removal of any
   Arms, or Warlike Stores, or Gunpowder
   exceeding the weight of two pounds, from
   one part of the Colony to another.

2. A License to make, construct,
   amend, or repair any Arms, Gunpowder,
   or other Warlike Stores.