B.—No. 6

Enclosure to No. 1. PROVINCE OP WELLINGTON. LOAN ADJUSTMENT. ANNO YICESIMO QCTNTO VICTORIA BEGINS. Session IX., No. 5. ANALYSIS. Title. 3. Seats of Commissioners in Provincial Council not to Preamble. become vacant 1. Appointment of Commissioners. 2. Power to Superintendent to appoint Commissioners, in the event of vacancy by death or otherwise. An Act to appoint Commissioners to adjust the amounts payable by the Provinces of Wellington and Hawke's Say, in discharge of the Loans raised by the Province of Wellington, as originally constituted, and for the adjustment of all matters of account between the two Provinces. [Assented to 2nd Juno, 1862.] Wheeeas it is expedient to adjust the proportions of the Loans raised by the Province of Wellington, as originally constituted, payable by the present Province of Wellington and tho Province of Hawkc's Bay, and other matters of account between the said Provinces : Be it theeefoee enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows :— I. That Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of this Province, William Fitzherbert, and William Waring Taylor, Esquires, be appointed Commissioners for the purpose of adjusting with the Provincial Government of Hawke's Bay, or any Commission to be appointed by them, the ampunts to be paid by each Province in discharge of the Loans raised by the Province of Wellington, as originally constituted, as their respective equitable proportions thereof, and the interest already accrued, and hereafter to accrue, on such Loans, and also to settle all matters of account between the said Provinces of Wellington and Hawke's Bay. II. In case either of the Commissioners so appointed shall die, resign, or become incapable of acting therein before such adjustment shall be completed, the Superintendent may appoint another person to bo Commissioner in his stead, and such newly appointed Commissioner shall have the same authority and power as the Commissioner in whose place he was appointed. III. Provided always that in the case of either the aforesaid William Fitzherbert and William Waring Taylor, now Members of this Provincial Council, or of any other Member of the Provincial Council who shall at any time bo appointed a Commissioner under this Act, his seat in the Provincial Council shall not become vacant, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Act of the Provincial Council, Session I., No. 26, intituled "An Act to make void the election of certain Members of the Provincial Council." CHAELES WILLIAM SCIIULTZE, Speaker. I hereby certify the above to be in accordance with the Bill as passed by the Council. John Howaed Wazlace, Chairman of Committees. Passed the Provincial Council this twenty-third day of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. William Best, Clerk of Council. I assent to this Act on behalf of the Governor of New Zealand, on this second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. I. E. FEATHEESTON, Superintendent.

No. 2. THE STJPEEINTENDEXT OF WELLINGTON TO THE HONORABLE THE COLONIAL TEEASUBEE. Superintendent's Office, Wellington, 12th November, 1862. Sib,— I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to cause the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty pounds, due from the Province of Hawke's Bay on account of interest on the Permanent

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APPORTIONMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE