WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Naturalization Act 1865” it was amongst other things enacted that every person who should be declared to come within the operation of the said Act by any proclamation to be issued in that behalf by the Governor should from the time in such proclamation specified be deemed and taken until the termination of the then next session of the General Assembly to be and to have been from such specified time a natural-born subject of Her Majesty within the said Colony And whereas the persons particularly described in the Schedule A. hereunto annexed have from time to time been so declared to come within the operation of the said Act and the persons particularly described in the Schedule marked B. hereunto annexed have settled in the said Colony and are desirous of being declared to be natural-born subjects of Her Majesty within the said Colony and it is expedient that there should be removed from all such persons as aforesaid within the said Colony the disabilities to which aliens are by law subjected