NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

Vol. I. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JAN. 11, 1848. No. 2.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Auckland, January 10, 1848.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct that the following Commission, appointing Justices of the Peace for the Province of New Ulster, and the list of Names thereto annexed, be published for general information.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

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, whose Names are hereunto annexed, Greeting.

Know Ye, that We have assigned you, and each and every of you, jointly and severally, to be our Justices to keep our Peace in our Province of New Ulster, and to keep and cause to be kept all Ordinances and Statutes for the preservation of the Peace, and for the quiet rule and government of our people, made in all and singular their Articles in our said Province, according to the form and effect of the same, and to punish all persons offending against the said Ordinances and Statutes, or any of them, in the said Province, and to cause to come before you, or any one or more of you, all those within our said Provinces, who to any one or more of our people concerning their bodies or the firing of their houses, shall 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 to cause them in our prisons, until they shall find such security to cause to be safely kept. We have also assigned you, or either of you, with any one or more of such Justices as are hereby, or shall hereafter be duly commissioned by us in that behalf, to enquire the truth more fully by all lawful means whereby the truth of the matter shall be better known, of all and all manner of Felonies, Poisonings, Trespasses, or Extortions 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 Province, done or perpetrated, or which shall happen to be done or attempted. And also, of all those who in the aforesaid Province, in companies against our Peace, 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 presume 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 of them therefore made for the common benefit of our said Province, and our people thereof, have offended or attempted, or hereafter shall presume in the said Province, to offend or attempt. And also, all Sheriffs, Constables, Keepers of Gaols, and other officers, who in the execution of their offices about the premises, or any of them, have misbehaved themselves, or hereafter shall