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LIABILITIES: £ S. d. £ S. d. Outstanding Claims (in hands of Officers, to be accounted for, 31st March, 1863) ..... 3,566 6 6 Estimate of Expenditure for the Fifteen Months ending 30th June, 1864, including an additional amount of £1,400, as per separate Eesolution of Council. . . . 29,216 16 0 Total Liabilities „ . 32,783 2 6 Excess of Estimated Assets over the amount of Estimated Liabilities to 30th June, 1864. .... £7,095 4 1 V. Janisch, Provincial Treasurer. Napier, 29th April, 1863. 6. E. G. Richardson, Provincial Auditor. MEMOEANDUM. ACRES. Approximate Area of Agricultural Land, remaining unsold, over which the Native Title has been extinguished, in the Province of Hawke's Bay .... 60,000 Do. do., Unagricultural Land 360,000 Do. do., Unavailable do. 318,000 Do. do,, Bush do. 107,000 Total ...... 845,000 H. S. TlFFEN, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Land Office, Napier, 16th March, 1863.

No. 7. THE HONORABLE THE COLONIAL SECEETAEY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT, HAWKE'S BAT. New Plymouth, 18th May, 1863. Sir,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Honor's letter, dated 17th April, 1863, forwarding Six Acts, passed by the Provincial Council of Hawke's Bay, and reserved by your Honor for His Excellency's assent. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased this day to assent to the following :— No. 2. " An Act to repeal the various Acts relating to Sheep, and the disease in sheep called scab, and to make other Provision in behalf of the same. No. 3. " An Act to appropriate the Eevenue of Hawke's Bay for 1863-4." No. 5. " An Act to constitute a Marine Board for the Port of Napier, to be called the 'Napier Marine Board.' *' No. G. "An Act to appoint Commissioners to adjust certain claims and matters of account, depending between the Provinces of Wellington and Hawke's Bay." And I now beg to return to your Honor one copy of each of the Acts above cited, with the assent of His Excellency formally endorsed thereon. In reference to these Acts generally, I desire to call your Honor's attention to the circumstance, that in some cases the enacting clause is worded " by and with the consent," instead of " by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council." The latter form of words is prescribed by the Constitution Act, and should be strictly adhered to. And in the case of the Marine Board Act, the Attorney-General has remarked that the first Section might have been more accurate by declaring the Board thereby constituted, and that the three last Sections are surplusage. The Loan Act will be made the subject of a future communication. I have, cfcc, Alfred Domett. His Honor the Superintendent, Hawke's Bay.

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