436 FOREIGN STATUTES. 



One-lialf of every penalty recovered uuder this ordinance shall be 

 paid to the person who prosecuted the offence or sued for such penalty. 



All fines, forfeitures, and penalties recovered under this ordinance, 

 where not otherwise hereinbefore i)rovi(led, shall be to Her Majesty, 

 her heirs, and successors, and shall be paid to the treasurer for the use 

 of the government of this colony. 



For all purposes of and incidental to the trial and punishment of any 

 person accused of any offence under this ordinance and the proceedings 

 and matters preliminary and incidental to and consequential on his 

 trial and punishment, and for all purposes of and incidental to the juris- 

 diction of any court or of any constable or officer with reference to such 

 offence, the offence shall be deemed to have been committed either in 

 the place in which it was actually committed or in any place in which 

 the offender may for the time being be found. 



4. Where the owner or master of a ship or vessel is adjudged to pay 



a penalty for an offence under this ordinance the court 



e^liu'-''*'^ °^ ^^"^ ^° Di'^y? i'l addition* to any other power they may have 



^^'^^ ^' for the i^urpose of compelling payment of such jien- 



alty, direct the same to be levied by distress or arrestment and sale of 



the said ship or vessel and her tackle. 



5. In this ordinance the expression '' seal" means the " fur seal," the 



"sea otter," the "hair seal," the " sea elephant," the 

 Definition of "seal." ,, ^^^ ]co])ard," and the "sea dog," and includes any 

 animal of the seal kind which may be found within the limits of this 

 colony and its dependencies. 



6. This ordinance may be cited as the seal fishery 



ordinance, 1881. 



T. Keee, 



Governor. 



Passed by the legislative council this twenty- seventh day of Decem- 

 ber, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. 



John Wright Collins, 



Cleric to the Council. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



[2C and 27 Vict., cap. 23. 8tli June, 1SC3.] 

 AN ACT of tlie Parliament of Great Britain to alter the Boundaries of New Zealand. 



Whereas by the Eiglitieth Section of an Act of the Fifteenth Year of Hei- 

 JNIajesty, Chapter Seventy-two, entitled "An act to grant a Representative 

 Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was provided that for the 

 Purposes of that Act the said Colony should be held to include the Terri- 

 tories therein mentioned; and Avhereas it is expedient to alter the Limits 

 of the said Colony as declared by the said Act: 



Be it therefore enacted by the Quceii's Most Excellent Majesiij, by and ivith 

 the Advice and, Consent of the Lords Spiritualand Temporal, and Commons, 

 in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as 

 folloics : 



1. So much of the Eightieth Section of the aforesaid Act of Parliament 

 as declares the Limits of the Colony of New Zealand for the Purposes of 

 the said Act is repealed. 



2. The Colony of New Zealand shall for the Purposes of the said Act 

 and for all other Purposes whatever be deemed to comprise all Terri- 



