Limits comprised between Cape Farewell and Milford Sound—One shilling per ton register per trip.

2. On all coasting steamers, including those coming from ports within the above boundaries—Threepence per ton.

3. On all intercolonial steamers, when coming to the wharf—One shilling per ton per trip.

4. On all lighters trading to the offing, or on all tugboats bringing in cargo from vessels in the offing—Eighteenpence per ton measurement for all cargo carried to the wharf.

5. On all tug-steamers, a charge of Threepence per ton on the registered tonnage of all vessels towed in by them.

6. A charge upon all steamers bringing in or taking out passengers to and from the roadstead, at the rate of Fourpence for such passengers.

Given under my hand at Wellington this seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

JOHN HALL.

Extracted from "New Zealand Gazette," No. 29, June 8, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, GOVERNOR.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, Wellington, the twenty-third day of May, 1868.

Present: The Colonial Secretary presiding, and the members of the Executive Council.

WHEREAS by "The County of Westland Act, 1867," it is enacted that the Governor in Council may, from time to time, authorise any Board constituted under the authority of the said Act, to levy rates upon all lands, buildings, and tenements within its district, and may make regulations for the due and impartial levying and collection thereof, and for limiting the amount to be levied in any one year. And whereas, by Order in Council, bearing date the 8th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, under the hand of his Excellency Sir George Grey, the then Governor, Boards were constituted under the authority of the said Act for the management of the business of the Road Districts hereinafter respectively mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, authorise and empower each of the Boards so constituted for the management of the business of

The Grey Road District
The Arahura Road District
The Totara Road District, and
The Okarita Road District

respectively, to levy rates upon all lands, buildings, and tenements within the district under the management of such Board, as each District is in each case defined in and by the said Order in Council of the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

And His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and in further exercise of the powers vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby, with such advice and consent as aforesaid, make and ordain the regulations hereafter contained for the levying and collection of the said rates, and for limiting the amount thereof to be levied in one year; that is to say:

Regulations for the Collection of Rates under Section 7 of "The County of Westland Act, 1867."

1. Rates shall be of two kinds—General and Special.

2. General rates may be levied for the purpose of providing means for executing general works, that is, works for the benefit of the road district generally.

3. Special rates may be levied for the purpose of providing means for executing special works, that is, works for the special benefit of any particular portion of the road district.

4. The Board shall decide what are general and what are special works.

5. Fourteen days at least before making any rate the Board shall prepare and post up in writing at the office of the Board a notice shewing:

(a.) An estimate of the probable cost of the works intended to be executed by the Board, and of the probable amount required to be raised by rates.

(b.) A list of the properties liable to be rated, and of the names of the occupiers or owners of such properties, with the rateable value of such properties.

(c.) The rate on each pound of the rateable value of all such properties necessary to produce the amount required to be raised, and shall forward a copy of such notice to the Chairman of the County Council, and shall notify either by advertisement or in such other manner as the Board may consider best calculated to give publicity, its intention of making a rate.

(d.) The time or place (not being less than ten nor more than fourteen days from the date of such notice) at which a meeting of the Board for the purpose of hearing and determining appeals, as hereinafter mentioned, shall be held.

6. For the purpose of ascertaining the rateable value of any property, the Board shall appoint two assessors who may be members of the Board.

7. No rate shall be made unless the Board shall first have received the written sanction of the Chairman of the County Council to such rate.