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No. 12. " An Act to extend the Operation of ' The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1882.' " No. 13. "An Act to amend ' The Electric Telegraph Act, 1875.'" No. 14. " An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Letters Patent for Inventions." No. 15. " An Act to amend ' The Volunteer Act, 1881.' " No, 16. "An Act for the Incorporation of Industrial and other Societies of a Kindred Nature." No. 17. " An Act to amend ' The Companies Act, 1882.' " No. 18. "An Act to amend ' The Mining Companies Act, 1872.'" No. 19. " An Act to constitute Native Committees in Proclaimed Districts." No. 20. "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Native Lands." No. 21. " An Act to amend ' The Thermal-Springs District Act, 1881.'" No. 22. " An Act in Amemdment and Supplement of ' The Middle Island Half-Caste Crown Grants Act, 1877.' " No. 23. "An Act to provide for the Management of the Native Eeserves in the South Island of the Colony." No. 24. "An Act to amend 'The "West Coast Settlement Eeserves Act, 1881.'" No. 25. " An Act to continue in force ' The West Coast Peace Preservation Act, 1882,' until the End of the next Session of the General Assembly." No. 26. "An Act to amend 'The Destitute Persons Act, 1877.'" No. 27. "An Act to amend ' The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.'" No. 28. "An Act to amend 'The Law-Practitioners Act, 1882.'" No. 29. "An Act to consolidate certain Enactments relating to Property, and to simplify the Law relating thereto." No. 30. "An Act to consolidate certain Acts relating to Trusts and Trustees." No. 31. "An Act for the Consolidation of the Law relating to Crown Grants." No. 32. " An Act to amend ' The Land Transfer Act, 1870.' " No. 33. "An Act to authorizo Land Boards to inquire into Cases of Forfeiture for Breach of Conditions in Leases and Licenses." No. 34. "An Act to amend ' The Road Boards Act, 1882.' " No. 35. "An Act to amend ' The Town Districts Act, 1881.' " No. 36. "An Act to amend ' The Counties Act, 1876,' and the several Acts passed in Amendment thereof." No. 37. "An Act to amend ' The Harbours Act, 1878.' " No. 38. "An Act to amend ' The Public Works Act, 1882.' " No. 39. " An Act to amend the District Railways Acts." No. 40. " An Act to amend ' The Railways Construction and Land Act, 1881.'" No. 41. " An Act to amend ' The Roads and Bridges Construction Act, 1882.'" No. 42. "An Act to amend 'The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882.'" No. 43. " An Act to amend ' The Rating Act, 1882.' " No. 44. "An Act to amend 'The Property Assessment Act, 1879,' and the Acts amending the same." No. 45. " An Act to impose a Property-Tax." No. 46. "An Act to exempt Charitable Gifts from the Payment of Duty." No. 47. "An Act to amend 'The Public Revenues Act, 1882.'" No. 48. "An Act to appropriate certain Sums of Money for the Purposes of Immigration and Public Works." No. 49. "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-four, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this present Session." Local Acts. No. 1. "An Act to authorize the Sale of certain Land, being part of Section Nine, Block Six, Town District of Dunedin, and to apply the Proceeds of the Sale towards paying off or reducing the Debt on the Site of St. Peter's Church, Caversham." No. 2. " An Act to alter and amend ' The Dunedin Southern | Market Reserve Leasing Act, 1882.' " No. 3. "An Act to empower the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunodin to adopt and redeem, as Liabilities of the said Corporation, certain Instruments purporting to bo Debentures of the Corporation of the City of Dunedin, feloniously stolen and fraudulently issued and dis-

posed of by Joseph Morgan Massoy, late Town Clerk of the said Corporation." No. 4. " An Act to vest certain Land in the Town of Invercargill in the New River Harbour Board." No. 5. " An Act to empower the Governor to issue Crown Grants for certain Reserves set apart for Native Purposes within the Murihiku Block." No. 6. "An Act to subdivide the Westland Education District." No. 7. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and Management of the Hokitika High School." No. 8. "An Act to constitute a Board of Trustees and to vest In it a certain Public Domain near the Town of Timaru, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, for the Purposes of a Racecourse." No. 9. " An Act to authorize the Body Corporate called tha Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland to borrow a Sum of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds." ■No. 10. "An Act to amend 'The Auckland Harbour Act, 1874.'" No. 11. "An Act for placing certain of the Auckland Hospital Reserves under the Administration of the Public Trustee, and to authorize the granting of extended Leases thereof." No. 12. " An Act to provide for the Sale of the Township of Kawhia." No. 13. " An Act to enable the Waitara Harbour Board to borrow the sum of Six Thousand Pounds for the Purpose of carrying out Improvements in the Harbour and River of Waitara." No. 14. " An Act to provide for the Future Maintenance of the Bridge over the Wanganui Eivcr as a Free Bridge." No. 15. "An Act to vest certain Lands in the Wellington Harbour Board, and also to authorize the Reclamation by the said Board of such and oertain other Lands in the Harbour of Wellington." No. IG. "An Act to empower the Governors of the Wellington College to acquire certain Lands." No. 17. " An Act to amend ' The Masterton and Greytown Lands Management Act, 1871,' and the Acts amending the same." No. 18. "An Act for improving the Streets adjacent to the Christchurch Cathedral, and for vesting certain Lands in the Trustees of such Cathedral Site, and for vesting certain other Lands in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the Borough of Christchurch as and for a Public Highway." No. 19. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and Management of the Waimate High School." No. 20. "An Act to amend 'The Timaru Mechanics' Institute Act, 1877."' No. 21. "An Act to provide for the Establishment and Management of a High School on the West Coast of the Middle Island of New Zealand." No. 22. " An Act to reconstitute the Otago Harbour Board." No. 23. " An Act to vest in the Otago Harbour Board certain Lands and Buildings, and to enable the said Board to construct a Dock at Port Chalmers." No. 24. " An Act to empower the Boroughs of Caversham, South Dunedin, and St. Kilda to widen and extend Streets in their respective Boroughs, and for these Purposes to borrow Money." No. 25. " An Act to set apart certain Lands on the Shores of Lake Ellesmere, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, in aid of the Support and Maintenance of the Natives resident in the Vicinity thereof." No. 2G. " An Act to enable the Corporation of the Town of Invereargill to convey certain Lands in the Town of Invercargill, in exchange for certain other Lands in the said Town." No. 27. "An Act to grant certain Special Powers to tho Governor to issue Crown Grants, and to enable him to carry out certain Contracts and Promises." Private Acts. No. 1. " An Act to authorize the removal of the College of St. John tho Evangelist from Tamaki to Parnell or elsewhere near Auckland." No. 2. "An Act to confer Powers upon ' The Guardian, Trust, and Executors Company of New Zealand (Limited).'" No. 3. "An Act to empower Hori Kerei Taiaroa, an aboriginal Native of the Colony of New Zealand, to alienate any Lands in the said Colony belonging to him alone, unrestricted by the Terms of any Act or Acts in force in New Zealand relating to Natives or Native Lands."

I have, &c. Governor Sir W. F. D Jervois, G.C.M.G. C.B. &c. DBEBY. 3—A. 2.