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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 713, 12 February 1853, Page 4

Restrictions on Rowers of Legislation. XIX. It shall not be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial Council to make or ordain any Law or Ordinance for any of the Purposes herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) _ 1. The Imposition or Regulation of Duties of Customs to be imposed on the Importation or Exportation of any Co>ds at any Port or Place in the Province: 2. The Establishment or Abolition of any Court of Judicature of Civil or Criminal Jurisdiction, except Courts for trying and punishing such Offences as by the Law of New Zealand are or may be made punishable in a summary way, or altering the Constitution, Jurisdiction, or Practice of any such Court, except as aforesaid: 3. Regulating any of the current Coin, or the Issue of any Bills, Notes, or other Paper Currency; 4. Regulating the Weights and Measures to be used in the Province or in any Part thereof: 5. Regulating the Post Offices and the Carriage of Letters within the Province : 6. Establishing, altering, or repealing Laws relating to Bankruptcy or In7. 8. 9. 10. solvency: The Erection, and Maintenance of Beacons and Lighthouses on the Coast: The Imposition of any Dues or other Charges on Shipping at any Port or Harbour in the Province : Regulating Marriages: Affecting Lands of the Crown, or Lands to which the Title of the aboriginal native Owners has never been extinguished; 11. Inflicting any Disabilities or Restrictions on Persons of the Native Race to which Persons of European Birth or Descent would not also be subjected ; 12. Altering in any way the Criminal Law of New Zealand, except so far as relates to the Trial and Punishment of such Offences as are now or may by the Criminal Law of New Zealand be punishable in a summary Way as aforesaid; 13. Regulating the Course of Inheritance of Real or Personal Property, or affecting the Law relating to Wills. As to Election of Speaker. XX. Every Provincial Council shall immediately on their First Meeting, and before proceeding to the Despatch of any other Business, elect One of their Members to be the Speaker thereof, during the Continuance of such Council, which Election being confirmed by the Superintendent shall be valid and effectual; and in case of Vacancy in the said Office by Death, Resignation, or otherwise, then and so often as the same shall happen the Election shall be repeated and confirmed as aforesaid. Speaker to preside, XXL The Speaker of each Provincial Council shall preside at the Meetings of such Council; but in his Absence some Member elected by the Council shall preside. Quorum. XXII. No Provincial Council shall be competent to the Despatch of any Business, unless One Third of the whole Number of Members be present. Questions to be determined by Majority of Votes. XXIII. All Questions which shall arise in any such Council shall be decided by the Majority of Votes of the Members present other than the Speaker or presiding Member; but in all Cases wherein the Votes shall be equal the Speaker or presiding Member shall have a Casting Vote. Standing Orders to be adopted. XXIV. Every Provincial Council at their First Meeting, and Irom Time to Time afterwards, as Occasion may require, shall prepare and adopt such Standing Rules and Orders as may be best adapted for the orderly Conduct of the Business of such Council, which Rules and Orders shall be laid before the Superintendent, and being by him approved shall then become binding and in force. Appropriation and Issue of Money, XXV. It shall not be lawful for any Provincial Council to pass, or for the Superintendent to assent to, any Bill, appropriating any Money to the Public Service, unless the Superintendent shall first have recommended to the Council to make Provision for the specific Service to which such Money is to be appropriated; and no such money shall be issued or be made issuable, except by Warrants to be granted by the Superintendent, Superintendent may transtnit Drafts of Lam for Consideration of Council. XXVI. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to transmit to the Provincial Council, for their Consideration, the Drafts of any such Laws or Ordinances as it may appear to him desirable to introduce, and all such Drafts shall be taken into consideration in such convenient Manner as in and by such Rules and Orders as aforesaid shall be in that Behalf provided. Giving or withholding Assent to Bills. XXVII. Every Bill passed by the Provincial Council shall be presented to the Superintendent for the Governor’s Assent, and the Superintendent shall declare, according to his Discretion, (but subject nevertheless to the Provisions herein contained and to such Instructions as may from Time to Time be given him by the Governor,) that he assents to such Bill on behalf of the Governor, or that he withholds the Assent of the Governor, or that he reserves such Bill for the Signification of the Governor’s Pleasure thereon; provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the Superintendent, before declaring his Pleasure in regard to any Bill so presented to him, to make such Amendments in such Bill as he thinks needful or expedient, and to return such Rill with such Amendments to such Council, and the Consideration of such Amendments by such Council shall take place in such convenient Manner as shall in and by the Rules and Orders aforesaid be in that Behalf provided; provided also that all Bills altering