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VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1842. [No. 5.
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-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same, &c. &c.
WHEREAS, by Letters Patent, under the
Seal of High Court of Ad-
miralty of England, bearing date the thirteenth
day of March, 1841, Her Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to ordain, constitute, and depute
me, WILLIAM HOBSON, ESQUIRE, Captain in Her
Majesty's Royal Navy, to be Her Majesty's Vice-
Admiral, Commissary, and Deputy in the office of
Vice-Admiralty in Her Colony of New Zealand,
and to the Territories thereon depending; to take
cognizance of, and proceed in all causes, civil and
maritime, and in complaints, contracts, offences, or
suspected offences, crimes, and misdemeanors or,
suspected misdemeanors, within the Maritime
Jurisdictiction of the Vice-Admiralty of the said
Colony of New Zealand. To hear and determine
the same according to the rights, statutes, laws,
ordinanances, and customs anciently observed,
with power of deputing and surrogating in
my place for the premises one or more Deputy or
Deputies, under me, for the said office and exe-
cution thereof."
Now, I, the Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the Colony of New Zealand aforesaid,
in pursuance of the above authority, do hereby
appoint WILLIAM MARTIN, ESQUIRE, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of this Colony, my.
Deputy, with full power to take cognizance of,
and proceed in all the matters, and to hear and
determine the same in manner aforesaid.
Given under my Hand and Seal this
twenty-second day of January, A.D.
1842.
"W. HOBSON, GOVERNOR."
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colouial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 2nd February, 1842.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint—
HENRY AUGUSTUS THOMPSON, Esq.,
Barrister at Law, Inner Temple.
To be Police Magistrate for the District of Nel-
son, in the island of New Munster.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auchland, 22nd January, 1842.
HIS Excellency the GOVERNOR has beer
pleased to direct it to be notified, that
until Claims to Land within this Colony shall
have been finally disposed of, all persons who
have preferred their Claims before the Commis-
sioners appointed for hearing the same, will be
allowed to cut Kauri or other Timber on the Land
claimed by them, without interruption by the
Crown.
By His Excellency's Command.
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND,
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🏛️ Proclamation appointing Deputy Vice-Admiral for New Zealand
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 January 1842
Proclamation, Vice-Admiralty, Deputy, Supreme Court, Jurisdiction
- William Martin (Esquire), appointed Deputy Vice-Admiral
- WILLIAM HOBSON, Esquire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, and Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same
- WILLLOUGHBY SHORTLAND
⚖️ Appointment of Police Magistrate for Nelson District
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement2 February 1842
Appointment, Police Magistrate, Nelson, New Munster
- Henry Augustus Thompson (Esquire), appointed Police Magistrate
- WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND
🗺️ Notification regarding timber cutting rights on claimed lands
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey22 January 1842
Land Claims, Timber cutting, Kauri, Crown rights
- WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND