TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND.

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The restriction thus imposed upon Colonial legislation has now been removed. It appeared to me, however, upon a careful consideration of the subject, that while, on the one hand, it is quite reasonable that a person who has registered under the Imperial Medical Act should be required to register in any Colony where he may desire to practise, and where registration is enforced by law; on the other hand, it is only just and equitable that he should be entitled to be so registered upon payment of fees, and proof of his registration under the Imperial Medical Act, without being compelled to undergo any fresh professional examination. This view is, as you will observe, embodied in the proviso at the end of section 3 of this Act. I have to desire that you will take such steps as may be necessary to procure the repeal of any law which has in terms enforced the registration in the Colony of persons registered under the Imperial Medical Act, and the passing of a fresh law in respect of such persons in accordance with the provisions of the recent Act. I have, &c, BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS. Governor Sir G. P. Bowen, G.C.M.G.

Enclosure in No. 6. Anno Teicesimo Primo Victoria Begins. Cap. XXIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to Medical Practitioners in the Colonies. [29th May, 1868.] Wheeeas by the thirty-first section of " The Medical Act," passed in the Session holden in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety, it is enacted as follows: " Every person registered under this Act shall be entitled, according to his Qualification or Qualifica- " tions, to practise Medicine or Surgery, or Medicine and Surgery, as the case may be, in any part of " Her Majesty's Dominions, and to demand and recover in any Court of Law, with full costs of suit, " reasonable charges for professional aid, advice, and visits, and the cost of any medicines or other " medical or surgical appliances rendered or supplied by him to his patients ": And whereas it is expedient to amend the said enactment: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with tho advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as " The Medical Act Amendment Act, 1865." 2. The term " Colony " shall in this Act include all of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad in which there shall exist a Legislature as hereinafter defined, except the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The term " Colonial Legislature " shall signify the authority other than the Imperial Parliament or Her Majesty in Council competent to make laws for any Colony. 3. Every Colonial Legislature shall have full power from time to time to make laws for the purpose of enforcing the registration within its jurisdiction of persons who have been registered under " The Medical Act," anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided, however, that any person who has been duly registered under " The Medical Act" shall be entitled to be registered in any Colony, upon payment of tho fees (if any) required for such registration, and upon proof, in such manner as the said Colonial Legislature shall direct, of his registration under the said Act.

No. 7. Copy of a DESPATCH from His Grace the Duke of Buckingham to Governor Sir G. P. Bowen, G.C.M.G. (No. 105.) Downing Street, 14th September, 1868. Sir, — (Beceived at Wellington, 21st November, 1868.) I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 58, of 7th July, forwarding a Memorandum signed by the Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, in which he states the views of the Ministers relative to the settlement of the accounts between the Imperial and Colonial Governments communicated to you in my Despatch of Ist April. Mr. Stafford had already, in his Despatch of Bth June, communicated by Mr. Pitzherbert on the 30th July, expressed the " satisfaction with which the Govern- " ment of New Zealand had learned the result of the negotiations with the Imperial " Government on the subject of the claims made by it against the Colony." All matters in difference between the two Governments having been thus disposed of, 2