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in the respective Months of January, April, July,
and October, in each future year.

Given under my Hand and Seal, at Go-
vernment House, Auckland, this tenth
day of July, in the Year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-
one.
"W. HOBSON."

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HOBSON,
ESQUIRE, Captain in Her Ma-
jesty's Royal Navy, and Go-
vernor and Commander in
Chief in and over Her Majes-
ty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies.

WHEREAS, by a certain Ordinance of the
Governor, with the Advice and Consent of
the Legislative Council of the said Colony, passed in
the 4th and 5th years of the Reign of Her pre-
sent Majesty Queen VICTORIA, intituled, "An
"Ordinance for instituting and regulating the
"Courts of General and Quarter Sessions in the
"Colony of New Zealand, and to authorize the
"holding of Petty Sessions within the same, and
"for defining their respective powers, and deter-
"mining the places at which the same shall be
"holden, and for repealing within the Colony of
"New Zealand, certain Acts of the Governor and
Council of New South Wales adopted and now
"in force within the said Colony of New Zea-
"land," it is amongst other things enacted and
ordained, that it should be lawful for the Governor
for the time being, to appoint places at which
Petty Sessions should be holden.

Now I, the said Governor, in pursuance of the
power and authority so vested in me by the said in
part recited Ordinance, do hereby direct and ap-
point that the said Courts of Petty Sessions shall
be holden, during the present, and in each future
year, at the several and respective Places, and on
the Days and Times hereinafter respectively men-
tioned, that is to say, at

Auckland
Port Nicholson
Russell
Kororarika
Waimate
Hokianga
Kaitaia
Munganui
Wangaroa
Kaipara
Maungarohi
Coromandel Harbour
Munakau
Kawia
Queen Charlotte's Sound
Cloudy Bay
Otago
Akaroa

Weekly, on every Tuesday, and such other days by
adjournment as the Justices shall find neessary.

Given under my Hand and Seal, at Go-
vernment House, Auckland, this tenth
day of July, in the Year of Our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-
one.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 10th July, 1841.

IT being highly desirable that the Accounts of
this Colony, for the period during which it
was a Dependency of the Government of New
South Wales, be immediately closed, His Excel-
lency the GOVERNOR directs it to be notified to all
Persons having Claims upon this Government,
prior to the 3rd day of May last, that it is requisite
their accounts be furnished to the proper depart-
ments, on or before Wednesday, the 28th instant.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 19th July, 1841.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct that the attention of the
Heads of the various Departments of the Go-
vernment of this Colony, and of the Public in
general, be drawn to the following Regulations
on the subject of Accounts, to which a strict ad-
herence will, it is hoped, avoid the inconvenience
and disappointment arising from a delay in the
settlement of Claims of this nature.

The Abstracts of Salaries of the Officers hold-
ing situations under the Government, are directed
to be sent up to this Office, on the 2nd day of the
month succeeding the quarter for which they are
due, they will then be immediately audited; and,
if found correct, transmitted to the Office of the
Colonial Treasurer, for payment on the 8th.

The Abstracts for Mechanics or Labourers em-
ployed in the Departments on monthly or daily
wages, must be transmitted to this Office by the
Head of the Department for whose service they
are engaged, on the 6th day of each month suc-
ceeding that for which the wages are due; if these
documents upon examination prove correct in
every respect, they will be sent on to the Colonial
Treasurer for payment on the 12th.

Parties furnishing Supplies to the various De-
partments for the Public Service, Contractors,
and others, are required to send in their Bills of
Particulars to the Head of each Department, by
the 2nd day of the month succeeding that on
which the Supplies were furnished. These do-
cuments, certified by the Officer who received