✨ Proclamation on Judicial Districts
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. IV.] WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1851. [No. 17.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the 18th day of January, 1844, the Colony of New Zealand was, for the purposes of the Ordinance for establishing a Supreme Court, divided into two districts by the names of the Northern and Southern districts:
And whereas, by a Proclamation bearing date the 30th day of July, 1850, the Southern district of New Zealand was, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, subdivided into two districts called respectively the Middle and Southern districts, the said Middle district being by the same Proclamation assigned to Henry Samuel Chapman, Esquire, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and the said Southern district being assigned to Sidney Stephen, Esquire, a Judge of the same Court:
And whereas it is expedient, for the purposes of the said recited Ordinance, to alter the boundary between the said districts, so that all that portion of the Southern district which lies to the North of the 44th degree of south latitude, shall be within the said Middle district:
Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim and declare that so much of the said last recited Proclamation as declares “that the Southern district shall include all that portion of the Colony of New Zealand which lies to the southward of the 42nd degree of south latitude,” shall be, and the same is revoked; and I do further proclaim and declare that the said Middle district shall, for the purposes aforesaid, extend from the northern boundary of the same, as described in the said last recited Proclamation, to the 44th degree of south latitude, together with so much of the sea adjacent thereto as lies within the jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiral of New Zealand:
And that the said Southern district shall include all that portion of the Colony of New Zealand which lies to the southward
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New Munster Gazette 1851, No 17
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🏛️ Proclamation altering the boundary between Middle and Southern districts
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationJudicial districts, Supreme Court, Proclamation, Middle district, Southern district
- George Grey (Sir), Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Henry Samuel Chapman (Esquire), Judge of the Supreme Court
- Sidney Stephen (Esquire), Judge of the Supreme Court
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary