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20. The Hawke's Bay and Marlborough Rivers Act 1868 Amendment Act, authorizing Boards of Conservators of river districts to raise loans in the manner prescribed with respect to boroughs. 21. The Awatere Shearing Reserve Act, authorizing the sale of a reserve no longer required for the purpose, and the application of the proceeds towards the construction of a public road. 22. The Hokitika Harbour Board Endowment Act 1878 Amendment Act, for the correction of verbal errors in the original Act. 23. The Kumara Education Reserve Act, authorizing the holders of miners' rights and business licenses to exercise the same within the reserve, subject to compensation to the owners of such reserve. 24. The Christchurch Drill-shed Act, incorporating Trustees to hold and manage certain lands to be granted to them for the use of the Canterbury Volunteers. 25. The Ashburton County Council Waterworks Act, enabling the said County Council to construct waterworks for supply of water for domestic and farming purposes. 26. The Timaru Harbour Board Empowering Act authorizes the Board to provide and maintain a landing-service in the roadstead. 27. The Timaru Waterworks Act authorizes a loan of £60,000 for the construction of waterworks by the Borough Corporation. 28. Tlie Otago Roads Ordinance 1871 Amendment Act, authorizing the constitution of road districts of less area than prescribed in the original Ordinance, with power to declare that the borrowing powers contained in the last-named Ordinance shall not apply within road districts to be hereafter constituted. 29. The Otago University Reserve Leasing Act, extending the powers of leasing heretofore granted to the University. 30. The Oamaru Harbour Board Act, authorizing the Board forthwith to exercise the full powers of borrowing heretofore granted to it. 31. The Oamaru Waterworks Act 1875 Amendment Act, enlarging the borrowing powers of the Municipality of Oamaru for the completion of waterworks. 32. The Alexandra Corporation Reserve Act, amending the boundaries of the laud granted as a reserve to the Corporation. 33. The Queenstown Racecourse Reserve Act, incorporating a Board of Trustees to hold and have management of the land to be vested in them for a racecourse. 34. The Kaitangata and Wangaloa Athenaeums Reserves Act, incorporating Trustees to hold and have the management of the lands vested in them respectively for the respective Athenamms aforesaid. 35. The Bluff Harbour Foreshore Endowment Act, vesting certain lands in the Bluff Harbour Board as an endowment for harbour purposes. 36. The Neiv River Pilot Station Reserve Act, vesting certain lands in the New River Harbour Board as an endowment for harbour purposes. 37. The Oreti Bridge and Ferry Reserves Act, vesting certain reserves and a bridge over the River Oreti, with the tolls arising therefrom, in the Corporation of the Southland County, subject to existing leases thereof respectively. 38. The Riverton Drill-shed Reserve Management Act, incorporating Trustees to have the management of lands to be vested in them for the use of Volunteers in Riverton. 39. The Special Powers and Contracts Act, authorizing the Governor to do all things necessary in certain cases for the satisfaction of equitable claims, in the absence of a direct law permitting their adjustment. The Private Acts deemed to be Public Acts. 1. The New Plymouth Gas Company Act, the usual Act authorizing a joint-stock company to construct works for supplying the Borough of New Plymouth with gas. 2. The Primitive Methodist Temporal Affairs Act, creating a succession of properly-qualified Trustees of the Primitive Methodist Connexion in New Zealand, according to the usages and regulations of the Primitive Methodist Connexion in England, as declared in their model deed, and regulating the temporal affairs of the said Connexion in New Zealand. 3. The Napier Swamp Nuisance Act, enlarging the powers of the Corporation of the Borough of Napier for the recovery of moneys expended in abating the swamp nuisance within the said borough. 4. The Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Act, defining the trusts upon which certain lands are hold by the Church Property Trustees within the Diocese of Christchurch, and regulating the management of all lands now or hereafter to be vested in the said Trustees. 5. The Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company Act, giving effect in this colony to the alteration of the name of the Liverpool and London Eire and Life Insurance Company, and to enable the said Company under its new name to sue and be sued. 6. The Te Aro Reclamation Act, authorizing the reclamation of land in the Harbour of Port Nicholson, at Wellington, by the Corporation of the Borough of Wellington,