His Excellency the Governor having been pleased to appoint Edward Lee Godfrey, Esq., and Matthew Richmond, Esq., to be Commissioners for examining and reporting on claims to grants of land in New Zealand:

Notice is hereby given that the said Commissioners have taken the oath prescribed by the Ordinance of the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, made and passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Ordinance to repeal within the said Colony of New Zealand a certain Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, made and passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, and adopted under an Ordinance of the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand for extending the Laws of New South Wales to the said Colony of New Zealand, and which said Act of the Governor and Council of New South Wales is intituled 'An Act to empower the Governor of New South Wales to appoint Commissions, with certain Powers, to examine and report on Claims to Grants of Land in New Zealand, and also to terminate any Commission issued under the same; and to authorize the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand to appoint Commissioners, with certain Powers, to examine and report on Claims to Grants of Land therein, and to declare all other Titles, except those allowed by the Crown, null and void.'" And the said Commissioners also give notice that they have entered upon the duties of their office, and intend to investigate the undermentioned claims to grants of land in New Zealand, at Auckland, on Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1841, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

The cases will be heard in the order in which they are inserted in the Government Gazette, and all parties interested are hereby summoned to be in attendance, with their documents and witnesses.

By command of His Excellency the Governor.