✨ Government Proclamation
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, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1851. [No. 8
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir George Grey, K. C. B., Governor-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 an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, Session 8, No. I, intituled “An Ordinance for establishing a Supreme Court,” the Governor of New Zealand is empowered, with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation from time to time, to divide the colony into districts for the purposes of the said recited Ordinance, and the limits of such districts from time to time to alter as occasion may require.
And whereas, by Proclamation dated the thirtieth day of July, One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty, the said colony was divided into three districts, named respectively the Northern, Middle, and Southern districts, whereof the Southern district was assigned to
Sidney Stephen, Esquire,
A Judge of the Supreme Court.
And whereas, it is provided by the said recited Ordinance that there shall be holden Circuit Courts for the despatch of Civil and criminal business of the Court, before one of the Judges thereof, at such places and at such times as the Governor shall, with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation, from time to time, appoint.
Now therefore, I, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby proclaim and appoint, that twice in every year, that is to say, on the first day of June and first day of December in this present year, and on the first day of June and on the first day of December in every succeeding year, or as soon after each of the said days respectively, as conveniently may be, a Circuit Court shall be holden at Dandenin, Otago, and at Wellington before the said Sidney Stephen, Esquire.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty one.
G. Grey,
Governor-in-Chief.
By His Excellency's command,
C. A. Dillon,
Civil Secretary
God Save The Queen!
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New Munster Gazette 1851, No 8
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🏛️ Proclamation of Circuit Court Dates
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration15 March 1851
Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, Proclamation, Dandenin, Otago, Wellington
- Sidney Stephen (Esquire), Assigned to hold Circuit Courts
- George Grey, Governor-in-Chief
- C. A. Dillon, Civil Secretary