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(d) That the debentures, amounting to £3,675 165., issued by Sir George Grey oil account of the Province of Wellington shall, in the first instance, be borne by that Province ; but that the same ought, to be recovered from the New Zealand Company. (e) That the unsatisfied Debentures, amounting to £914 Bs. 9d., under the Land Claimants Ordinance, New UJster, shall be borne by the Province of Auckland. (f) That whatever sum, if any, may he ultiuiately charged against the colony on acconnt of the outlay on the pensioner villages, shall be borne by the Province of Auckland. 12. That all payments made since the date of the Constitutional Act, or which may be made, on account of the several before-mentioned charges, or on account of interest thereon, ought to be re-adjusted on the foregoing principles. 13. That the foregoing arrangements ought to be effectuated, as far as possible, by a legislative act of the General Assembly, and, as far as may be additionally requisite, by an act of the Imperial Legislature. Mr. Fitzgerald moved as an amendment "That the whole of the Resolutions proposed by Mr. Sewell be omitted, with a view to insert the following in lieu thereof:— That the mode in which the Debt of the New Zealand Company is charged upon the Land Funds of the Colony is, considering all the circumstances of the case, the fairest mode which could have been adopted and one which ought to be maintained; with one exception, that Auckland ought to be altogether relieved from the debt due to the Company. The charge of the New Zealand Company ought to be subordinate to, and subsequent to the charge for the purchase of land from the natives. That the costs of maintaining the General Government in accordance with the forgoing Resolutions ought not to exceed the sum provided by way of Civil List. With the exception of the charges borne on the Civil List, all the departments of Government in each Province should be borne on the Revenues of such Province. That the costs of Collection and Management of the Ordinary Revenue, in each Province, should be paid out of the Revenue of such Province. That the current expenses of the General Government ought to be borne solely upon the Ordinary Revenues of the Colony. That every Province ought to contribute from its net Ordinary Revenues a sum proportional to its net Revenues, to defray such current expences. That such proportional sum might cohveniently be changed into a fixed quota to be-charged from time to time as the proportion altered. That a separate account ought to be kept of all the Land Revenues in the Colony. That all the expences of Collection, Management, and Surveys, in respect to the Land Fund within each Province, ought to be borne on Funds arising within that Province. The costs of extinguishing the' native title to land within each Province ought to be borne upon the Land Fund of such Province. Debate ensued. A message from the Legislative Council announced. The Honorable F. Dillon Bell, Esq. was introduced, who presented the Marriage Bill with amendments. Mr. Forsaith moved the consideration of the amendments to the Marriage Bill. Agreed to. Amendments read and agreed to. Mr. Forsaith and Mr. Hart were deputed to notify to the Legislative Council the concurrence of the House in the amendments to the Bill. A message from the Legislative Council was again announced. The Honorable F. Whitaker Esq., was introduced, who presented the Provincial Waste Lands Bill which had been passed by the Council without amendment. Debate on Mr. Sewell's Resolutions resumed. Question put, that the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. House divided. 18