New Zealand Gazette – 1844 – No. 19

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✨ Government Notices and Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereupon
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. IV.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1844. [No. 19.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th July, 1844.

IS Excellency the Governor directs it to be
11 notified, that the Postage of Correspon-
cence of individuals with this Government,
upon their private affairs, must be pre-paid.

By Command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency ROBERT FITZROY,
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, &c.,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand, with
the advice and consent of the Legislative Coun-
cil, Session 3, No. 1, 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
eighteenth day of January, Eighteen hundred
and forty-four, the said Colony was divided into

the Northern and Southern Districts, whereof
the Northern District was assigned to

WILLIAM MARTIN, Esq.,
Chief Justice 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 Execu-
tive Council, by Proclamation from time to time
appoint.

Now therefore, I, the Governor, with the ad-
vice of the Executive Council, do hereby Pro-
claim and appoint, that twice in every year, that
is to say, on the first day of October in this
present year, and on the first day of April, and
on the first day of October, 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 Russell, before the said
William Martin, Esquire.

Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
(L. S.) Auckland, this nineteenth day of
July, in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and
forty-four.

ROBERT FITZROY,
Governor.

By Command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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