No. 92.
Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same, &c.

Whereas Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to "The Native Lands Act, 1862," and by Proclamation of the Governor, dated the twenty-ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the operation of that Act has been extended over the whole Colony of New Zealand: And whereas the operation of this law renders unnecessary the continuance of the Native Land Purchase Department, by which prior to its enactment the cession of Native lands to the Crown has heretofore been conducted: And whereas other provisions will from time to time be made for any future cessions of land to Her Majesty which the Governor may permit to be made under clause thirty-two of the said "Native Lands Act, 1862:"

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, do hereby revoke all Commissions authorizing the purchase of lands on behalf of the Crown from the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony of New Zealand, and do proclaim that the Native Land Purchase. Department will, from and after the date hereof, be done away with and cease to exist.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.