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No. 42. " An Act to amend 'The Stamp Act, 1875 ;' " No. 43. "An Act to amend ' The Public Revenues Act, 1878 ;' " No. 44. " An Act to amend ' The New Zealand Consolidated Stock Act, 1877 ;' " No. 45. " An Act to appropriate certain Sums of Money for the Purposes of Immigration and Public Works ;" No. 46. " An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund and other Moneys to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first day of March, One thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this present Session." Local Acts. No. 1. "An Act to amend 'The Taranaki County Council Loan Act, 1878 ;' " No. 2. "An Act to authorize the Sale of the Queen's Wharf and Bonded Store at the City of Wellington to the Harbour Board;" No. 3. "An Act to authorize the Conveyance of a certain Parcel of Land described in the Schedule hereto in trust for the Port Chalmers Volunteers, and to make Provision for the Control and Management of the said Land ;" No. 4. "An Act to appropriate a certain Portion of the Town Belt of Port Chalmers to and for the Purposes of a Public Cemetery j" No. 5. "An Act to amend 'The Timaru Mechanics' Institute Act, 1877;'" Kb. 6. "An Act to change the Trusts of certain Lands within the City of Auckland, and vest certain other Land in the Corporation of the City of Auckland ;" No. 7. "An Act to enable the Waitara Harbour Board to borrow the sum of Ten Thousand Pounds for the Purpose of carrying out Improvements in the Harbour and River of Waitara;" No. 8. "An Act to amend ' The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act, 1871 ;'" No. 9. "An Act to extend the Operations of certain Sections of ' The Canterbury Rivers Act 1870 Amendment Act, 1880;' " No. 10. "An Act to enable the Waimakariri Harbour Board to borrow the Sum of One Thousand Pounds for the Purpose of carrying out Improvements in the Harbour and River of Waimakariri;" No. 11. " An Act to authorize the Transfer of a Reserve made for a Water-race in the Timaru District to the Borough of Timaru, for the Purposes of the Construction of Waterworks ;" No. 12. "An Act relating to certain Reserves vested in the Timaru Harbour Board;" No. 13. " An Act to grant Borrowing Powers to the Timaru Harbour Board;" No. 14. " An Act to bring under the Provisions of ' The West-

land and Nelson Coal Melds Administration Act' 1877,' a certain Branch Coal Field Railway, conBtrueted by the Wellington Coal Company, aud also to amend the said Act;" No. 15. " An Act to provide for the Establishment and Management of the Rangiora High School;" No. 16. "An Aot to provide for the Establishment and Management of the Akaroa High School;" No. 17. "An Act lo provide for a Reserve for Educational Purposes within the Borough of Waimato, and the Erection of School-buildings at Waimate and Temuka;" No. 18. ''An Act to constitute a Board of Trustees, and to vest in it a certain Public Reserve near to the Town of Waimate, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, for the Purpose of a Racecourse;" No. 19. "An Act to constitute a Board of Trustees, and to vest in it a certain Public Reserve in the County of Geraldine, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, for the Purpose of a Racecourse j" No. 20. "An Act to amend 'The Oamaru Harbour Board Ordinance Amendment Act, 1876;' " No. 21. "An Act to provide for the Management and Sale of certain Reserves belonging to the University of Otago ;" No. 22. " An Act to constitute a Dock Trust for the Management and Maintenance of a Dock at Port Chalmers, and for vesting certain Lands in such Dock Trust;" No. 23. "An Act to constitute a Board of Trustees, and to vest in it certain Pubjic Reserves near Roxburgh, in the Provincial District of Otago, for the Purposes of a Racecourse;" No. 24. "An Act to vest in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill a certain Parcel of Land in the Borough of Invercargill, in Trust for the Purposes of a Site for Gasworks for the said Borough;" No. 25. " An Act to enable the Trustees of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association to dispose of certain Lands vested in them to the Southland Caledonian Society, and to acquire other Lands in lieu thereof;" No. 26. "An Act to provide for the Administration of Local Affairs within the Chatham Islands;" No. 27. "An Act to grant certain Special Powers to the Governor to issue Crown Grants, and to enable him to carry out certain Contracts and Promisee." Private Acts (deemed to be Public Acts). No. 1. "An Act to incorporate the Trustees of Saint Paul's Presbyterian Church, in the City of Christchurch, and for other Purposes ;" No. 2. "An Act to confer certain Powers upon the Council of the County of Selwyn, in respect of a certain Waterrace, to be known as the Hororata Water-race."

I have, &c.j Governor the Hon. Sir A. H. Gordon, G.C.M.G., KIMBERLEY. &c, &c, &o.

No. 15. (No. 64.) Sir,' — Downing Street, 30th December, 1881. I have the honor to transmit to you, for communication to your Government, the enclosed Order of Her Majesty in Council, assenting to the Act passed by the Legislature of New Zealand, and reserved by you for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure, intituled "An Act to regulate the Immigration of Chinese." I have, &c, Governor the Hon. Sir A. 11. Gordon, G.C.M.G., KIMBERLEY. &C, &C.j &C.

Enclosure in No. 15. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 19th day of December, 1881. Present: The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Secretary Sir William Veeston HaecottiiTj Sir Montague Smith, Sir Henet Ponsonbt, Lord Justice Lindley; Wheeeas, by an Act passed in the session held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to grant a Kepresentative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things declared that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said colony shall signify, either by Speech or Message to the Legislative Council and