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or the Law Officers of the Crown in England may make, with a view to improve the machinery of t he measure or to assure its successful working," we should anticipate that the proper authorities of New Zealand will not be indisposed to pass a supplementary enactment or to make supplementary regulations such as we have suggested for that purpose. If this is done, the operation of the Acts will, at least, be equal and impartial, and the other defects to which we have adverted are, probably (as was observed in the former Report) of such a kind as not in themselves to constitute .sufficient grounds for refusing the Royal assent to these measures. The conclusion at which we have arrived is, that it will not be expedient to leave these Acts to their operation until the cardinal requirement of notice shall have been more satisfactorily provided for, but that, in other respects, they might properly be permitted to take effect. We have, &c, W. Atherton, ROUNDELL PALMEB. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c, &c.

THE LAND REGISTRY ACT, 1860.

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