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such two or more of you, as is aforesaid, shall make known to them respectively, they cause to come before you, or such two or more of you as aforesaid, so many and such good and lawful men of their respective Bailiwicks by whom the truth of the matter in the premises shall be the better known and enquired into.

In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our said Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness our trusty and well-beloved Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand at Government House, at Auckland, the twentieth day of December, in the twentieth year of our Reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

God Save the Queen!

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our trusty and loving subjects

Charles Wybrow Ligar, Esq.
Edward Mayne, Esq.
Henry Matson, Esq.
Lieut. Colonel John Gray,
Major George Ponsonby Hume, 58th Regt.
Major William Henry Kenny, commanding New Zealand Fencibles.
William Smellie Graham, Esq.
Robert Cushman Barstow, Esq.
Sampson Kempthorne, Esq.
Frederick Wast Merriman, Esq.
Alexander Kennedy, Esq.
James Ruby, Esq.
Gilbert Mair, Esq.
George Clarke, Esq.
Henry Charles Lawlor, Esq.
Samuel Allen Bell, Esq.
Theodore Minet Haultain, Captain New Zealand Fencibles.
John Annesley Hickson, Captain
John Woodhouse, Esq.
John Anderson Gilfillan, Esq.
William Connell, Esq.
Joseph Greenwood, Esq., Major of Brigade.
Charles Heaphy, Esq.
Archibald Clark, Esq.
Joseph Hargreaves, Esq.
John Watson Bain, Esq.
William Innes Taylor, Esq.
Thomas Williams, Esq.
Charles John Taylor, Esq.

Major Marmaduke George Nixon,
William Mason, Esq.
Thomas Paton, Esq.
William Powditch, Esq.
Henry Vercoe, Esq.
Francis Dart Fenton, Esq.
Walter Harsant, Esq.
Major George Forster Sadlier.
Robert Kelly, Esq.
Henry Tacy Kemp, Esq.
Robert Baillie Lusk, Esq.
Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes, Bart.
Reader Gillon Wood, Esq.
Harcourt. R. Aubrey, Esq.
Thomas Bateman, Esq.
William Bartley, Esq.
Edward Marsh Williams, Esq.
James Buchanan, Esq.
Walter Brodie, Esq.
William Crush Daldy, Esq.
Thomas Henderson, Esq.
William Gorrie, Esq.
Allan Kerr Taylor, Esq.
Robert Graham, Esq.
Every McLean, Esq.
William Goodfellow, Esq.
John Sangster Macfarlane, Esq.
William Turner, Esq.
William Reallie Logan, Esq.
James Burnett, Esq.
Joseph May, Esq.
John Hogarth, Esq.
Alexander Grange, Esq.
John Campbell Johnstone, Esq.
Samuel Stephenson, Esq.
John Williamson, Esq.
Lachlan Allan McCaskill, Esq.
Major James Speedy.

GREETING:

NOW YE that we have assigned you, jointly and severally, and every of you, our Justices to keep our Peace in the Province of Auckland, 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 the said Province according to the force 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 Province 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 th...