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Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, doth hereby make and put in force within the said Upper Waikato District, the following Regulations, that is to say : — 1. No person shall sell or dispose of spirituous or fermented liquors within the said District ; and every person offending against this Regulation shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds. 2. No person shall remove any Spirituous or Fermented Liquors from any place outside the said District into any place within the same, or from any place within the said District to any other place within the same, without a License in that behalf previously had and obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned : and every person offending against this Regulation shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds. 3. It shall be lawful for any ResidentMagistrate, with the concurrence of at least one Native Assessor, acting within such District, to grant Licences for the Removal of Spirituous or Fermented Liquors into or within the said District. 4. AH Fines levied by virtue of the preceding Regulations will, pursuant to the Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858, be appropriated and disposed of from time to time by the Governor in Council, for the purposes of Government within the said District, or otherwise for the common benefit of the inhabitants thereof. And His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby further declare, that this Order shall take effect from and after the first day of January, 1862. Issued under the Public Seal of the said Colony at Auckland, the sixteenth day of December, 1861. By His Excellency's command, William Fox.

No. 9. ORDER IN COUNCIL. Appointing " Waiuku" District under "Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858." G. Grey, Governor. At the Government House at Auckland, on Friday the Third day of January, 1862. Present :—His Excellency the Governor in Council. Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the "Native Districts Regulations Act, 1858," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from ♦ime to time to appoint Districts for the purposes of the said Act, being Districts over which the Native Title shall not for the time being have been extinguished: Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint, and declare, that the Territory hereafter described shall be a district for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say:—All Territory lying within a boundary line commencing at the head of Waiuku Creek, thence proceeding to the Awaroa River by the Public Road from W raiuku to the Awaroa River, thence by the Awaroa River to the Waikato River, thence by the North bank of the vVaikato River to its mouth, and thence by the Coast Line to the commencing point : Excepting all land over which the Native Title has been extinguished : And doth appoint and declare that the said District shall be called the Waiuku District: And doth declare that this Order shall take effect from and after the twentieth day of January, 1862. J. Holt, Clerk of Executive Council.

No. 10. ORDER IN COUNCIL, Appointing " Waiuku" District under the "Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858. G. Grey Governor. At the Government House at Auckland, on Friday the Third Day of January, 1862. Present :—His Excellency the Governor in Council. Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the " Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858," it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to appoint Districts for the purposes of the said Act, being Districts over which the Native Title shall not for the time being have been extinguished : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor by and with the advice and consent of His Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint, and declare that the Territory hereafter described shall be a District for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say :—All Territory lying within a boundary line

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