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NOTICES OF MOTION. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th, 1855. 1. MR. TRAVERS—To move that pending a final adjustment of the public accounts of the Colony, it is just and expedient that the proportion of the Land Fund now in course of being retained by the General Government, in repayment of alleged over-payments to the Provinces of Canterbury and Nelson, should again be paid over to the Provincial Treasurers of those Provinces for the public uses thereof, according to the present system of advances to Provinces, and that the question of the repayment oi such alleged overpayments should remain open until such final adjustment, and be subject to such arrangements for liquidation as may then be deemed necessary. That a respectful Address be presented to his Excellency the Governor, praying that instructions may be issued to the proper officers to carry out the foregoing resolution. 2. MR. FORSAITH—To move that the proposed Loan Bill having been declined it is the opinion of this House, that his Excellency the Governor is not to be considered as bound by any message from his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, and resolution of the House, in relation to the amounnt to be expended in the purchase of native land, ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Estimates of Expenditure—to be further considered in Committee. 2. Appropriation Bill—to be considered in Committee. 3. Crown Land Purchasers' Legal Estate Bill—to be considered in Committee, 4. Adjourned Debate on the Report of the Committee on Pensioners' Petition. 5. Adjourned Debate on the Report of the Committee on New Zealand Company's Debt. CHARLES CLIFFORD, Speaker,