ft Md %ta I a n fc. VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SESSION 11.

Friday, September Ist, 1851. Present :—The Speaker and 33 members. The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Speaker read prayers. The Speaker took the chair. Minutes of last meeting read. Major Greenwood presented a Petition from certain inhabitants of Auckland and its neighbourhood ; respecting the administration of the Waste Lands.—Petition received Major Greenwood moved, seconded by Mr. Cargill, that the Petition be printed. Agreed to. Ordered to be printed. Mr, Sewell gave notice that to-morrow he would move the suspension of the Standing Orders, in order to pass through their several stages the folio wing Bills:— 1. A Bill for regulating the management of certain lands, reserved for Public purposes, in the several Provinces of New Zealand. 2. A Bill for amending an Ordinance passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, for regulating the sale of Fermented and Spirituous Liquors. Mr. Wortley gave notice that to-morrow he would move, that the following Address in accordance with the resolutions passed by this House, on the last day of the last Session, be transmitted to Her Majesty :— To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,— "We the Commons of New Zealand, assembled in their House of Representatives, humbly beg leave to approach your Majesty with renewed assurances of our loyalty and attachment to your Majesty's person and throne. We have already conveyed to your Majesty our grateful thanks for the boon of Constitutional freedom, conferred on us by a recent Act of the Imperial Parliament. We have further addressed your Majesty in grateful acknowledgment of what we then believed to have been the final completion of that measure of Constitutional freedom by the concession of Responsible Government. We deeply regret now to be compelled to address your Majesty in other language, and to pray for that, we believed we had already attained.