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No. 41. An Act to amend ' The Mining Companies Act, 1872;'" No. 42. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Gold Fields;" No. 43. An Act to amend 'The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867 ;' " No. 44. " An Act relating to Destitute Persons, Illegitimate Children, and Deserted Wives and Children ;" No. 45. " An Act for the Protection of Fish and Fisheries in New Zealand;" No. 46. " An Act relating to Cemeteries ;" No. 47. " An Act to promote the Establishment and Support of Public Libraries ;" No. 48. " An Act for Preventing the Adulteration of Food or Drugs, and the Selling or Exhibiting for Sale Adulterated or Unwholesome Food or Drugs, of any kind ;" No. 49. "An Act to amend ' The Law Practitioners Act, 1861;'" No. 50. " An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Public Account to the Service of the Year ending the Thirtieth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight;" No. 51. " An Act to appropriate certain Sums of Money for the purposes of Immigration and Public Works ;" No. 52. " An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund and other Moneys to the Service of the Year ending the Thirtieth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and seventyeight, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this present Session." Local and Personal. No. 1. " The Auckland Highway Districts Validation Act;" No. 2. " An Act to amend ' Tho Wellington City Reserves Act, 1872;'" No. 3. " An Act to provide for the Management of a Public Domain for the Borough of Lyttelton ;" No. 4. " An Act to vest the Endowment of tho Timaru Mechanics' Institute, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, in Trustees, and to enable the Trustees to raise Money for the improvement of the same;" No. 5. "An Act to vest certain Reserves in the Trustees of the Oamaru Athenceum and Mechanics' Institute, and to provide for the Management of the said Reserves ;" No. 6. "An Act to vest certain Reserves in Port Chalmers, in the Provincial District of Otago, in tho Port Chalmers Mechanics' Institute;" No. 7. " An Act to authorize the Municipal Council of the Town of Port Chalmers to raise Money for the purpose of completing the Waterworks for the Supply of the Town and the Shipping of the Port with Water ;" No. 8. "An Act to amend 'The Dunedin Drill-shed Reserve Act, 1876;' " No. 9. "An Act to authorize the Municipal Council of tho Town of Invercargill to borrow a further sum of Fourteen Thousand Pounds for the purposes of the Gasworks of the Town ;" No. 10. " An Act to authorize the Sale of a portion of an Education Reserve at Waiwera, in the Provincial District of Otago ;" No. 11. " An Act to vest in the Corporation of the City of Dunedin, as a site for a Town Hall, a portion of Reserve No. 1, on the plan of the Town of Dunedin, now vested in the said Corporation, in trust for a Public Market for the City of Dunedin and its Inhabitants ;" No. 12. " An Act to vest certain Lands reserved as a Commonage, in the Town of Havelock, in Trustees ;" No. 13. "An Act to authorize the Governor to complete certain Unfulfilled Engagements relating to Land, and for that purpose to issue Crown Grants in certain cases;" No. 14. " An Act to reserve certain Lands in the Tokomairiro District, within the Provincial District of Otago, and to vest the same in trust for the Tokomairiro Farmers' Club ;" No. 15. " An Act to vest certain Reserves in the Town of Invercargill in Trustees ;" No. 16. "An Act to enable the Auckland Harbour Board to dispose of certain Lands reclaimed from the Foreshore in the Harbour of Auckland, and to amend the constitution of the Auckland Harbour Board;" No. 17. "An Act to declare the Qualification of Electors for the first Election of Members of the Boards of certain Road Districts in Otago j"

No. 18. "An Act to constitute the Ponsonby Highway District;" No. 19. "An Act to vest Section Sixteen, Block Two, in the Town of Lawrence, in the Lawrence Athenceum and Mining Institute, for the purposes of the said Institute ;" No. 20. "An Act to vest certain Lands now vested in the Governor in trust for certain Trustees ;" No. 21. "An Act to change the Purposes of some Reserves in the City of Dunedin, and to vest the same in the Education Board of the Otago Provincial District j" No. 22. " An Act to reserve, out of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the Provincial District of Canterbury, certain Lands as Compensation to certain Aboriginal Natives at Kaiapoi, known as the Kaiapoi Natives, and to make provision respecting the Title thereto and Dealings therewith j" No. 23. "An Act to extend certain provisions of 'The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876,' relating to Waterworks for and to Lighting the City of Dunedin, and to render the said Sections applicable to the Waterworks acquired by the Corporation of the City of Dunedin under the provisions of ' The Dunedin Waterworks Act, 1874,' and to the Gasworks acquired by the said Corporation under 'The City of Dunedin Borrowing Act, 1871,' 'The Dunedin Gas and Waterworks Loan Act, 1872,' and ' The City of Dunedin Gasworks Act, 1874 ;' " No. 24. "An Act to vest in the Borough of Lawrence certain Reserves within the said Borough ;" No. 25. " An Act to set aside a Reserve for the Public Libraries in the Peninsula County ;" No. 26. "An Act to vest certain Lands in the Lyttelton Harbour Board ;" No. 27. "An Act to vest in the Corporation of the City of Auckland, as ordinary Reserves, the Surplus of certain Lands acquired by the said Corporation for Water Supply purposes;" No. 28. "An Act to vest a certain parcel of Land at or near Kaiapoi in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Kaiapoi, for the purposes of a Public Cemetery;" No. 29. "An Act to vest certain Lands in the Wanganui Harbour and River Conservators Board, and to empower such Board to borrow Money;" No. 30. "An Act to incorporate the Members of an Association in the Town of Havelock, in the Provincial District of Otago, known as 'The I T"velock Athenceum,' and to vest in such Association certain Land in the Town of Haveiock as a site for a Mechanics' Institute, and other real and personal Estate;" No. 31. "An Act to ratify and'confirm the raising of certain Sums of Money under 'The Wellington Loans Consolidation Act, 1876,' and to make provision for the Appropriation of portions thereof;" No. 32. " An Act to authorize the Governor to purchase certain pieces of Land at Wakapuaka, in the Provincial District of Nelson, for Telegraph Purposes ;" No. 33. "An Act to vest certain Reserves set aside for the Cromwell Athenceum in the Cromwell Athenceum ;" No. 31. " An Act to vest a certain Reserve in Mataura, in the Provincial District of Otago, in Trustees on trust for Recreation and other Purposes;" No. 35. " An Act to empower the Trustees of the Akaroa Public Library to exchange certain portions of Land in Akaroa for other adjoining Land;" No. 36. " An Act to amend ' The Christehurch District Drainage Act, 1875 ;' " No. 37. " An Act to authorize the Native Land Court to ascertain the Shares of Members of the Ngatiteau, Ngatiluranga, and Ngatirakau Hapus in the Himatangi Block, part of the Rangitikei-Mana-watu Block, and to subdivide the said Block ; and to authorize the Governor to issue Crown Grants ;" No. 38. "An Act to vest the site of the Qucenstown Athenceum, in the Provincial District of Otago, in Trustees, and to enable such Trustees to borrow and raise Money on the security of such Site and Buildings thereon for certain purposes, and to vest all Property belonging to the said Athenceum in such Trustees;" No. 39. "An Act to declare that certain Waterworks constructed in the Borough of Lawrence shall be deemed to have been constructed under ' Th« Municipal Corporations Act, 1876 ;' " No. 40. "An Act to vest tho Management of the New