seventy-one, I intend to demise to the per-
sons named in the schedule hereto annexed
certain auriferous Crown Lands of alluvial
ground for the terms specified in the said
schedule.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this
third day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.

H. H. LAHMAN.

Hokitika,
June 24, 1871.

PURSUANT to section 13 of "The Gold
Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868," under the powers delegated to me by His
Excellency the Governor, I hereby publish
for general information, Bye-Law No. 21, of
the Jones’s Flat Mining Drainage Board.

H. H. LAHMAN,
Governor’s Delegate.

[Extracted from New Zealand Gazette, No. 31,
of the 1st of June, 1871.]

Bye-Law No. 21.

At a meeting of the Mining Drainage Board of
the District of Jones’s Flat, begun and holden at
Ross, in the said District, on the 13th day of
June, 1871, it was enacted by the said Board as
follows, that is to say—

WHEREAS, by and under "The Gold
Mining Claims Drainage Act, 1868," power is given to every Mining Drainage
Board constituted thereunder to make bye-
laws for the district for which it shall have
been appointed, and to revoke, alter, and
amend the same: And whereas, by and
under a certain bye-law of the said Mining
Drainage Board numbered 18, it is enacted
"that an equal rate of eightpence (8d.) shall be levied upon all rateable areas within
Drainage Area No. 1, payment of such rate
to be due and payable to the Clerk of the
said Board, at his office, Aylmer Street,
Ross, on Friday the 23rd day of September,
1870, and that such payments shall continue
to be made each Friday until otherwise
ordered by the said Drainage Board:" And
whereas, the said Mining Drainage Board
have resolved that an equal rate of nine-
pence shall be levied weekly upon all rate-
able areas within the aforesaid Drainage
Area No. 1, of the said district of Jones’s
Flat, in lieu of eightpence as imposed under
and by virtue of the aforesaid Bye-Law
No. 18:

Be it therefore ordered and enacted by the
said Mining Drainage Board as follows, that
is to say—That an equal weekly rate of nine-
pence shall be levied upon all alluvial gold
mining claims within Drainage Area No. 1,
of the said drainage district, in lieu of the
said equal weekly rate of eightpence imposed
upon the said claims in the said area under
and by virtue of the aforesaid Bye-Law
No. 18; and that such weekly rate of nine-
pence shall be paid to the person, and at the
time and place specified and mentioned in
the aforesaid Bye-Law No. 18; and shall in
all other respects be subject to the provisions
of the aforesaid bye-law.\n
The undersigned members of the Jones’s
Flat Mining Drainage Board have concurred
in making the foregoing Bye-Law No. 21.

W. B. ARCHER, Chairman.
W. MONTEITH.
W. DOUGLASS.
C. HUNTER.
JOHN THOMAS.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington,
this eleventh day of May, 1871.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE THE PREMIER PRESIDING,
AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Intestate Estates
Act, 1865," it is amongst other things
enacted that every Curator shall once in
every quarter of a year, on a day to be fixed
by the Governor in Council, or oftener if re-
quired, produce and pass his accounts in
each estate of which he shall be appointed
administrator before the Registrar of the
Supreme Court, for the judicial district in
which the Curator may reside, or such other
person or persons as the Governor in Council
may from time to time appoint for that
purpose:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and
authority in him vested on this behalf, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, doth here-
by fix and appoint the thirty-first day of