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Josiah Flight, Esq.,
George Sisson Cooper, Esq.,
Robert Rodger Strang, Esq.,
Lieut. Colonel Alfred Francis William Wyatt,
65th Regiment.

Thomas Henry Smith, Esq.,
Lieut. Colonel James Patience, 65th Regt.
Major George Freeman Murray, 65th Regt.
Oliver Barker D’Arcy, Esq.
Duncan Bazalgette, Esq.
Thomas Houghton Bartley, Esq.
Charles Clifford, Esq.
Daniel Pollen, Esq.
John Grant Johnson, Esq.
Charles Knight, Esq.
Herbert Samuel Wardell, Esq.
Henry John Tancred, Esq.
John Poynter, Esq.
William John Warburton Hamilton, Esq.
Archibald Watson Shand, Esq.

GREETING:

NOW YE that we have assigned you,
jointly and severally, and every of you,
our Justices to keep our Peace in our Colony
of New Zealand, and to keep and cause to be
kept all ordinances and statutes for the good
of the Peace, and for preservation of the same,
and for the quiet rule and government of our
people, made in all and singular their articles
in our said Colony, according to the force,
form, and effect of the same, and to chastise
and punish all persons that offend against the
form of those ordinances or statutes, or any one
of them, in the aforesaid Colony, as it ought
to be done, according to the form of those
ordinances and statutes; and to cause to come
before you, or any of you, all those who to any
one or more of our people, concerning their bodies,
or the firing of their houses, have used threats,
to find sufficient security for the Peace, or their
good behaviour towards us and our people; and
if they shall refuse to find such security, then
them in our prisons, until they shall find such
security, to cause to be safely kept. We have
also assigned you, and every two or more of
you, our Justices to enquire the truth more
fully by the oath of good and lawful men of the
aforesaid Colony, by whom the truth of the
matter shall be better known of all and all
manner of felonies, misdemeanors and tres-
passes whatsoever, and of all and singular other
crimes and offences of which the Justices of our
Peace may or ought lawfully to enquire, by
whomsoever and after what manner soever in
the said Colony done or perpetrated, or which
hereafter shall happen to be done or attempted.

And also, of all those who in the aforesaid
Colony, in disturbance of our people, with armed
force, have gone or rode, or hereafter shall
presume to go or ride; and also, of all those who
have there lain in wait, or hereafter shall pre-
sume to lie in wait, to maim or cut, or kill our
people. And also, of all victuallers, and all
and singular other persons, who in the abuse of
weights or measures, or in selling victuals,
against the form of the ordinances and statutes,
or any one of them therefor made or in force
for the common benefit of our said Colony and
of our people thereof, have offended, or attempted,
or hereafter shall presume in the said Colony
to offend or attempt. And also, of all
sheriffs, constables, keepers of gaols, and other
officers, who in the execution of their offices
about the premises, or any of them, have un-
duly behaved themselves, or hereafter shall pre-
sume to behave themselves unduly, or have been,
or shall happen hereafter to be careless, remiss,
or negligent in our aforesaid Colony. And
of all and singular articles and circumstances,
and all other things whatsoever that con-
cern the premises, or any of them, by whomso-
ever, and after what manner soever, in our afore-
said Colony done or perpetrated, or which
hereafter shall there happen to be done or
attempted in what manner soever. And to in-
spect all Indictments whatsoever so before you,
or any of you, taken or to be taken, or before others
late our Justices of the Peace in the aforesaid
Colony made or taken, and not yet
determined; And to make and continue pro-
cesses thereupon against all and singular the per-
sons so indicted, or who before you hereafter
shall happen to be indicted, until they can
be taken, surrender themselves, or be outlawed.
And to hear and determine all and singular the
felonies, misdemeanors, and trespasses, unlawful
assemblies, indictments aforesaid, and all and
singular other the premises, according to the
laws and statutes of our said Colony as in the
like case it has been accustomed or ought to be
done. And the same offenders, and every of
them, for their offences, by fines, ransoms, amer-
ciaments, forfeitures, and other means, as
according to the laws and customs of our said
Colony and form of the ordinances and statutes
aforesaid it has been accustomed or ought
to be done to chastise and punish. PRO-
VIDED ALWAYS, that if a case of difficulty
upon the determination of any of the premises
before you, or any two or more of you shall
happen to arise, then let judgment in no wise
be given thereon before you, or any two or
more of you, unless in the presence of one of
our Justices of the Supreme Court of the said
Colony.

And therefore, We command you, and
every of you, that to keeping the Peace,
ordinances, statutes, and all and singular
other the premises, you diligently, ap-
ply yourselves, and that at certain days and
places which you or any such two or more
of you as is aforesaid, shall appoint for these
purposes into the premises, ye make enquiries,
and all and singular the premises hear, and de-
termine and perform and fulfil them in the
aforesaid form, doing therein what to justice
appertains, according to the law and custom of
our said Colony, saving to us the amerciaments
and other things to us therefrom belonging.
And we command by the tenor of these presents
our Sheriffs in our said Colony, severally, that
at certain days and places which you or any