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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4828, 12 September 1876, Page 2

The condonation Bill introduced into the House of Representatives last evening, by message from his Excellency the Governor, is intituled an Act to amend the Civil List Act 1863 Amendment Act, 1873, and to remove doubts as to the disqualification of certain members of the Executive Council, and runs as follows : Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand In Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : —l. The short title of this Act shall be the Civil List Acta Amendment Act, 1876. 2, The fourth section of the Civil List Act 1863 Amendment Act 1873, is hereby repealed. _3. In addition to the seven persona mentioned in section seven of tho Civil List Act 1863 Amendment Act, 1873, any person being a member of the Executive Council and holding any one or more of the offices mentioned in the third schedule to the said Act shall be exempt from the provisions of the Disqualification Act, 1870, provided he does not receive any salary foes, wages, allowance, emolument, or profit of any kind in respect of the said off ces or any of them, or as a member of the Executive

Council. 4. This A'ot. shall' be deemed and taken to have come into and been in operation on and from the 31st day of August last.