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'directed by Parliament, vested in the New Zealand Company, in trust for the Purposes and subject to the Provisions in the 'same Act contained; and it was by the same Act enacted, that during such Period all the Rights, Powers, and Authorities of Her Majesty in reference to the same might be exercised and 'administered by the said Company in such Manner in all respects, subject to the Restrictions therein contained, as to the said Company should seem best fitted to promote the efficient ⚫ Colonization of New Zealand and the Welfare of the Colonists 'thereof: And whereas it is expedient, for the better Promotion ' of the Colonization of New Zealand, and for the more effectual • Exercise of the several Powers and Authorities vested in the said • Company, that Means should be provided to enable the Execution of Deeds of Conveyance and other legal Instruments in New Zealand by and on behalf of the said Company, and that other Provisions should be made to facilitate the Interchange of Property in the Colony:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall Power to Combe lawful for the said Company, by any Deed or Instrument in pany to appoint Writing under their Corporate Seal, from Time to Time to con- Attornies, stitute and appoint any Persons to be, while actually within the Colony of New Zealand or its Dependencies, and for such limited Period (if any) as the said Company may think fit, the Attornies of the said Company, to make and execute, in the Name and on the Behalf of the said Company, Grants, Leases, Conveyances, and any other Deeds or Instruments whatsoever, of and in relation to any of the Lands and Property in the said Colony of New Zealand or its Dependencies now belonging to or hereafter to belong to the said Company, or over or in respect to which the said Company now has or hereafter may have any disposing or other Power or Authority whatsoever, subject nevertheless (so far as the same may be applicable) to the Restrictions contained in the recited Acts, and from Time to Time as Occasion may require, and as to the said Company may seem meet, to revoke any such Deed or In- and to revoke strument under the Corporate Seal of the said Company as afore- Appointments. said, and to make any other such Deed or Instrument for the like Purpose, which Grants, Leases, Conveyances, and other Deeds and Instruments to be made and executed by such Attornies shall be under the Signature of such Attornies, and under such Seal as herein-after mentioned.

II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Com- To grant to pany to appoint and commit to the Custody of the Attornies for such Attornies the Time being constituted and appointed as aforesaid a Seal for a Seal. the Purpose of making and executing such Grants, Leases, Conveyances, and other Deeds and Instruments as aforesaid, and such Seal from Time to Time to break, alter, or renew as to the said Company may seem meet; and every Grant, Lease, Conveyance, Deeds executed and other Deed and Instrument to be made and executed in manner by Attornies aforesaid by such Attornies shall be as valid and effectual in Law valid, as if exeto all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if the same had been Company. duly

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Execution.

duly made and executed by the said Company without the Intervention of such Attornies.

III. And be it enacted, That all Grants, Leases, Conveyances, primâ facie Evi- and other Deeds and Instruments signed or purporting to be signed by such Attornies as aforesaid, and sealed or purporting to be sealed with the Seal for the Time being committed to such Attornies, shall be primâ facie Evidence not only of the Appointment and Continuance in Office of the Attornies under whose Signatures the same shall be or purport to be made, but also of their Signatures thereto, and the due sealing thereof with the Seal committed to such Attornies, and that it shall be the Duty of all Courts of Justice, Justices, and others, as well within as without any of Her Majesty's Colonies, to receive the same as such primâ facie Evidence.

Not less than

Two Attornies to be appointed.

Verification of Deeds for Registration.

Act to extend to
Colonies.

Public Act.

Act may be amended, &c.

IV. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That not less than Two Persons shall be appointed such Attornies as aforesaid by any Deed or Instrument, and that if in any Deed or Instrument more than Two Persons are appointed, any Two of the Persons so appointed, whether they alone of the Persons so appointed shall have accepted or shall continue in Office or not, shall (unless the contrary be provided by such Deed or Instrument) be as fully competent to act in all respects as the whole Body of Persons thereby appointed.

V. And be it enacted, That, for all Purposes respecting Registration in the said Colony or its Dependencies, any Deed, Conveyance, or other Instrument, and any Memorial thereof, sealed or purporting to be sealed with the Seal of the said Company, shall be sufficient Evidence of the due Execution of such Deed, Conveyance, or other Instrument and Memorial by the said Company; and no further Evidence or Verification of such Execution, nor any Evidence or Verification of the Signature of the Secretary of the said Company or other Person or Persons who shall attest the sealing of such Deed, Conveyance, or other Instrument or Memorial, shall be required for the Purpose of such Registry, any Law, Ordinance, or Custom now or hereafter to be in force in New Zealand notwithstanding.

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VI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall extend to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and also to Her Majesty's Colonies.

VII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

CA P. LXXX.

An Act to repeal the Allowances on the Purchase of Stamps
and for the receiving and accounting for the Duties on Gold
and Silver Plate, and to grant other Allowances in lieu
thereof.
[1st August 1849.]
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-fourth Year of

the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal the several Stamp Duties under the Commissioners for

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managing the Duties upon stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper in Great Britain, and to grant new and additional Duties in lieu thereof, certain Allowances, specified in the Schedule marked (C.) to the said Act annexed, were granted and made payable, and amongst others the following; that is to say,

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To every Person who at one and the same Time shall produce at the Head Office for Stamps in London to be stamped, or shall buy of the Commissioners of the Stamp Duties, Vellum, Parchment, or Paper charged with any Stamp Duty to the Amount in the whole of Thirty Pounds or upwards, One Pound Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion for any greater or less 'Sum not under Thirty Pounds:

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To Persons who shall at one and the same Time purchase stamped Labels for Medicines the Duty whereon shall amount to Five Pounds or upwards, Five Pounds for every One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion for any greater ' or less Sum not under Five Pounds:

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To Persons who shall at one and the same Time purchase stamped Labels for Medicines the Duty whereon shall amount to Fifty Pounds or upwards, Ten Pounds for every • One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion for any greater or less Sum not under Fifty Pounds:

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To Persons who shall at one and the same Time purchase stamped Labels for Medicines the Duty whereon shall amount to One hundred Pounds or upwards, Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion for any greater or less Sum not under 'One hundred Pounds:

For receiving the Duty for and in respect of Gold Plate or 'Silver Plate made or wrought in Great Britain, paying the same, and making out the Accounts according to the Direc 'tions of the several Acts of Parliament in that Behalf made, Two Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds, ' and so in proportion for any greater or less Sum not under • One hundred Pounds:

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And whereas by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign

of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to repeal the 9 G. 4. c. 27. 'Allowances made to Stationers on the Purchase of Stamps for Receipts at the Head Office in London, and to grant an Allow ance to Persons purchasing such Stamps to a certain Amount of the Commissioners of Stamps or of the Distributors of Stamps in Great Britain, the following Allowance was granted and made payable; (that is to say,)

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To every Person who at one and the same Time shall buy of the Commissioners of Stamps at their Head Office for Stamps in London Stamps for Receipts to the Amount of • Five Pounds or upwards, or who at one and the same Time shall buy of any Distributor or Sub-Distributor of Stamps in any other Part of Great Britain, not being within the Distance of Ten Miles from the said Head Office, Stamps for Receipts to the Amount of One Pound or upwards, an Allowance of the Sum of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion for any Z 4 greater

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greater or less Sum than One hundred Pounds of such Stamps so purchased not under Five Pounds or One Pound " respectively:

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And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign 5&6 Vict. c. 82. of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to assimilate the 'Stamp Duties in Great Britain and Ireland, and to make Regu

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lations for collecting and managing the same, until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty five, and by Two several Acts subsequently passed for continuing the 'said last-mentioned Act, the same Allowances as are authorized by Law to be made or allowed in England in respect of the Stamp Duties or any of them in force there are directed to be 'made and are now payable in respect of the Stamp Duties in 'Ireland: And whereas since the granting of the said Allowances by the said Act of the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third the Rate of the Stamp Duties has been greatly increased, and by reason thereof the Rate of the 'said Allowances computed thereon has been in some Cases rendered excessive: And whereas, regard being had to the Object and Design of the said recited Acts in granting the said Allowances, the continuing of the same is in some Cases unnecessary: And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said Allowances, and to grant others in lieu thereof at a reduced Rate or limited as herein-after directed:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine all the said several Allowances herein-before recited, and now payable in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, shall cease and determine, and the same are hereby repealed.

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II. And be it enacted, That in lieu of the said several Allowlowances in lieu ances hereby repealed as aforesaid there shall be made, allowed, and paid in Great Britain and Ireland respectively the several Allowances following; (that is to say,)

of those re

pealed.

To any Person who at one and the same Time shall produce
at the Office of the said Commissioners in London or Dublin
to be stamped, or shall purchase of the said Commissioners
at their Office in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, Vellum,
Parchment, or Paper stamped with Stamps (not being
Labels for Medicines) under the Value respectively of Ten
Pounds each, but to the Amount or Value in the whole of
Thirty Pounds or upwards, One Pound Ten Shillings for
every One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion for any
greater or less Sum not under Thirty Pounds.

To any Person who shall at one and the same Time purchase of
the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, at their Office in
London or Edinburgh, stamped Labels for Medicines the
Duty whereon shall amount to Fifty Pounds or upwards, Five
Pounds for every One hundred Pounds, and so in proportion
for any greater or less Sum not under Fifty Pounds.
For receiving the Duty for and in respect of Gold Plate or
Silver Plate made or wrought in Great Britain or Ireland,

paying the same, and making out the Accounts according
to the Directions of the several Acts of Parliament in that
Behalf made, One Pound for every One hundred Pounds so
received, paid, and accounted for, and so in proportion for any
greater or less Sum.

Care of the Commissioners of Inland

all former Powers, Provisions, &c. to

III. And be it enacted, That the said Allowances by this Act Allowances to granted and made payable shall be under the Charge and Care be under the of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and all Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Regulations, and Directions contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament or otherwise, and now in force, in relation Revenue, and to the several Allowances hereby repealed, shall be of full Force and Effect with respect to the several Allowances by this Act granted or made payable, as far as the same are or shall be applicable, and shall be observed, applied, and put in execution, so far as the same shall be consistent with the express Provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted with reference to the said Allowances hereby granted and made payable.

remain in force.

IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c.

Parliament.

CA P. LXXXI.

An Act to authorize Her Majesty to issue a Commission to inquire into and report upon Rights or Claims over the New Forest in the County of Southampton and Waltham Forest in the County of Essex. [1st August 1849.] WHEREAS the Boundaries of Her Majesty's Forest called the New Forest in the County of Southampton, and of 'Her Majesty's Forest called Waltham Forest in the County of Essex, and the Lands of Her Majesty's Subjects within the said • Forests respectively, are in some Parts not clearly defined, and divers Purprestures, Encroachments, and Trespasses have been or are alleged to have been made on the Soil of Her Majesty within the said Forests respectively, and the Forestal Rights of Her Majesty in and over the said Forests respectively have been or are alleged to have been diminished, abridged, or prejudiced by unlawful Inclosures made within the Regard of the said Forests respectively, and divers Claims of Common of Pasture, Turbary, and Fuel, and other Claims, are made or preferred by or on behalf of divers of Her Majesty's Subjects in, upon, and * over the said Forests or Portions thereof respectively; and it is expedient that such Matters should be inquired into, and their Nature, Extent, and Value ascertained and defined: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty Her Majesty to issue or cause to be issued One or more Commission or Com- may appoint missions under the Great Seal of Great Britain, or under the Commissioners Seal of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, and to inquire into

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