LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 63, 26 March 1842, Page 4

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

February 2nd, 1842, presented the Members. The minutes of Council were then read and ■confirmed* "LICENSING BILL. The. Attorney General moved the order of the <*■ for'the second reading of the Licensing Bill, hich was read accordingly: but in consequence 1 members not having received the Bill to. make their amendments, it was on the f Mr. Clendon, ordered, that the lime iv'mg notice of amendments be extended to owing day. fhe Colonial Secretary then moved that the Ix considered in Committee on Friday the4th February: carried. HARBOUR REGULATIONS' BILL. ■ ,Jn the motion of the Colonial Secretary, by the Colonial Treasurer, that the first reading of this Bill be postponed till 3rd Kebruary, 1842 : carried. LAND CLAIMS' BILL. Mr. Earp* presented a petition, numerously signed by the inhabitants of Auckland, and other Claimants of Land in New Zealand, praying that this Council would not proceed with the condition.' of the " Land Claims' Bill," until the amentlments, which Government were about to propose, should be publicly known. Petition lived and read. The following notices of motion were then ven by the Attorney-General: — 1. That, in Committee on the Land Claims' **e would move the following amendments, in the 62nd line, after the word "claimed,'' except as herein provided.'' V '. After the word " Ordinance," in the 91st , insert, " all lands -reported to 'have been so iivated or built upon, between the said of January, 1840, and the passing of this Ordinance, may .be so granted, if to His ExcelCouncil, it shall seem meet. The land ..ranted absolutely, shall be taken in. part ■isfaction of the claim of the grantee thereof.'' . Alter the words lands, 5 ' m the h line, erase tie remainder of 19th clause, insert as follows : "such claimant shall be entitled to make such selection, as aforesaid, oute land so validly sold to him." After the foregoing clause insert clauses 20 id 21, to the following effect: "all claimants to whom land shall have been validly sold by the Aboriginal natives, and who shall be' reported to have actually cultivated any part of such land, shall be entitled at their option to select the land ' to be granted to them in manner hereinbefore provided, or to receive a lease at a nominal rent, for years, of so many acres as they shall ;und entited to, adjoining the land so cultivated, and lying within th* limits of the land so validly sold to such claimant.'' '5. Clause 21 : "In case the land to be comprised in any such lease shail fall within any •ict which shall be opened for settlement during the currency of such lease, the lessee thereof receive a free grant of the land therein co/nprised in fee simple," After the 24th clause insert clause as fob r lows ; "If any part of the land comprised in the said ..Schedule C shall be found not to have been validly sold by the Aboriginal inhabitants, eomnsation f or the same shall be made to such inants by the New Zealand Company. The a 'Z\. of such compensation shall be settled by e Protector of Aborigines and the principal U of the Company, or, in case of difference, D .v t \ umpire to be named by them." f. In the 62nd line, after the word " claimed," ert, " except as herein provided.'' On the motion of Mr. Earp, seconded by the olonial Treasurer, the further consideration of le Land Claim's ,Bill in Committee, was adourned to Friday, February 4, to enable members o prepare further amendments. The Council then adjourned to Thursday, February 3. : —- Thursday, 3rd February, 1842. All the Members were present, except Mr. Earp; and the minutes were read, without 'alteration, and agreed to. LICENSING BILL. The Colonial Secretary moved the order of the dav, for receiving notices of amendments on the £BiJJ. * Mr. Clendon then gave notice, that on the sereadmg of the said Bill, he would move the '•diowing amendments, viz,—

In clause 12 in 73rd line, after word " recognizances," -expunge the remainder, and insert to "to the Registrar of Deeds of the District to be filed in his office." That the 13th clause be expunged. Between the 19th and 20th clauses, insert "the Governor shall have power to grant a License at any period of the year, upon petition signed by two Justices as aforesaid, subject to the provisions herein contained." In clause 20, in the 123rd line, after the word " day," expunge the remainder of the clause. In clause 21, in the 129th line, after the word i " Innkeeper," insert " they may think proper," and erase the words " not exceeding three." Between the 26tli and 27th clause, insert " constables may demand entrance into licensed houses at any hour, upon information that this Ordinance is contravened; and any unnecessary delay in giving admission to said constable, may, upon the hearing'of the case by the Police Magistrate, subject the party or parties to the penalties herein contained, or a forfeiture of license." After 28th clause insert, "licensed persons shall not sell or supply any spirituous liquors, or allow the same to be sold or supplied to any confirmed drunkard, of whom he may have been notified in writing by order of the Police Magistrate." In clause 21st, after 171st line, after the word " imprisoned," insertj" and kept to hard labour." In same clause, in 175th line, after the words " a term of," insert " not less than seven days, nor more than thirty days." The Attorney-General gave notice that he would move, on the second reading of the " Licensing Bill," the following amendment:—after 29th clause, insert the words, " Provisional Licenses," and the following clause, " Whereas, by reason of the formation of new settlements within the Colony, it may be desirable that Licenses should be granted otherwise than at the time and and in th*e manner hereinbefore provided, be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the Peace for the district, at any time or times, to grant any number of Licenses,,to be in force until the Ist day of July next but one, following the arrival of the first body of immigrants at such settlement. The sum to be paid for any such License being after the rate of £3O a year." On motion of the Colonial Secretary, the order of the day for the first reading of " Harbour Regulations' Bill'' proceeded with. The Bill was «ead. On motion of the Treasurer, seconded by the Attorney General, ordered, that 'trie sa*d Bill be read a second time on Thursday, the iOth of February, 1842. Council then adjourned to 12 o'clock on Friday, 4th February, 1842.