Jt tto %tkla it b. VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SESSION 11. Tuesday, September sth, 1854. Present : —The Speaker and 30 Members. The House met pursuant to adjournment. The Speaker read prayers. The Speaker took the Chair. Minutes of last meeting read. A Message from his Excellency the Officer administering the Government was announced. His Excellency's Private Secretary was introduced and delivered the following Messages, which were read by Mr. Speaker:— Message No. 9. His Excellency the Officer administering the Government transmits to the House of Representatives the draft of "a Bill to provide for the Appropriation of the Public Revenue of New Zealand." R. H. Wynyard. Government House, Auckland, sth September, 1854. Message No. 10. Referring to a resolution of the House of Representatives, No. 10 of 21st of June, Session 1, requesting that the House might be furnished with "a Return of the amount of Land Scrip awarded by the New Zealand Company on the Government, as compensation to sufferers in respect of land, purchased from the Company, in their settlements of Wellington and Whanganui," &c.; and to Message No. 11, of the Ist of July, relating thereto, —His Excellency the Officer administering the Government forwards to the House, a copy of a letter which has been received from Mr. Commissioner Bell on this subject. R. H. Wynyakd. Government House, Auckland, sth September, 1854. On motion of Mr. Sewell the Appropriation Bill was read a first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. Carleton presented a Petition from certain inhabitants of Russell, and its neighbourhood, praying the House to take into its favourable consideration certain measures set forth in the Petition, tending to the improvement of the Settlement of Russell. Petition ordered to be received. 7