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And whereas it may be expedient that Regulations to be so put in force within any such District should be either General Regulations applicable to the whole District, or Local Regulations applicable only to a portion of such District, as the case may be: Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, and in exercise of the powers so vested in him as aforesaid, doth hereby order, appoint, and declare that the assent of the Native population to any such Regulations to be put in force within any District as aforesaid, shall be ascertained in manner following, that is to say : 1. If the Governor shall think fit at any time by Order in Council to constitute within any District or group of Districts or part of a District appointed under the said Act, a Native Runanga for the purpose of ascertaining such assent as aforesaid, such Runanga shall be termed the " District Runanga of ," or the " Village Runanga of ," as the case mav be : And every such Runanga shall continue during the Governor's pleasure. 2. Every District or Village Runanga shall consist in the first instance of such Native Chiefs as may be appointed by the Governor to be members thereof, and of such other members as may be afterwards added by election or otherwise in pursuance of any General or Local Regulation in that behalf : and any member may resign or be removed by the Governor. 3. Every Regulation proposed by any District or Village Runanga to be put in force within any such District, whether the same shall be a General Regulation for the whole District, or a Local Regulation for any part thereof, shall be considered at a meeting of the District or Village Runanga to be specially held for the purpose : and the final adoption thereof at such meeting by a majority of such Runanga, shall be held to be the ascertainment of the general assent thereto of the Native population to be affected thereby, within the meaning of the said Act: Provided that if on the presentation to the Governor of any such Regulations, he shall think fit to return the same to the Runanga with any amendments therein, the Runanga shall consider such amendments in like manner as aforesaid, and the final adoption in manner aforesaid of the Regulations as so amended shall be held to be the ascertainment of the general assent thereto as aforesaid. 4. Whenever the Governor shall not have constituted any District or Village Runanga within any District appointed under the said Act, the assent of the Native population to any Regulations to be put in force therein shall be ascertained by the Civil Commissioner of the District (if any), or by such other Officer, assisted by not less than two Native Assessors, as may- be designated by the Governor in that behalf. And His Excellency, with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth declare that tin's Order shall take effect from and after the thirty-first day of March, 1862. Hampden Willis, Clerk of Executive Council.

No. 25. ORDER IN COUNCIL, Appointing District of " IVaihou" under the "Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858." G. Grey, Governor. At the Government House, at Auckland, on Friday, the Seventh day of March, 1862. Present :—His Excellency the Governor in Council. Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the "Native District Regulations Act, 185S," 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 commencing at Tauranga Harbour, and following the Northern and Western boundary of the Ilay of Plenty District till it meets the Northern boundary of the Upper Waikato District, thence following the latter boundary till it meets the Eastern boundary of the Lowe* Waikato District (as the said Districts have respectively been constituted by Orders in Council under the " Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858"); thence along the last named boundary to the source of tho Mangatawhiri River; thence by a line to the Wairoa River and by the Wairoa River to its mouth; and thence by the coast line (including Waiheke and adjacent Islands) to the commencing point: Excepting lands over which the Native title has been extinguished within the meaning of the said Act: And doth appoint and declare that the said District shall be called the " Native District of Waihou": And doth declare that this Order shall take effect from and after the thirty-first day of March, 18G2. Hampden Willis, Clerk of Executive Council.

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UNDER NATIVE ACTS OF 1858.