✨ Court Establishment Proclamation
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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relate.
By His Excellency's Command, ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. IV.] AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1844. [No. 23.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency ROBERT FITZROY,
Esquire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal
Navy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over the Colony of New Zealand,
and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
W HEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, Session 3, No. 8, intituled "An Ordi-
nance to establish Courts of Requests for the
" more easy and speedy recovery of small Debts."
The Governor is empowered, with the advice of*
the Executive Council, by Proclamation, from
time to time to appoint fit places for the holding
of such Courts, and to define the District within
which the jurisdiction of each of such Courts
shall be exercised, and the limits of each Dis-
trict to alter from time to time as occasion may
require.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, with the
advice of the Executive Council, in pursuance
of the authority aforesaid, do hereby proclaim
and declare that for the purposes of the said
Ordinance, the following are the appointed
places whereat such Courts shall be holden, and
that the Districts within which the Jurisdiction
of such Courts shall be exercised, shall be
defined as follows:-
The Northern District shall comprise all places
within the limits of the Northern Division of
New Zealand, as stated in the Proclamation
issued under my hand and under the seal of the
Colony, bearing date the eighteenth day of
January, 1844; and the Southern District shall
comprise all places within the Southern Division
of New Zealand, as stated in the afore-men-
tioned Proclamation. And the places whereat
such Courts shall be holden are, in the Northern
District-
AUCKLAND,
RUSSELL, and
NEW PLYMOUTH.
And in the Southern District-
WELLINGTON, and
NELSON.
And I do hereby further proclaim and declare,
that the first Sittings of the said Courts of
Requests, shall be holden at Auckland and
Wellington, respectively, on the first Wednesday
in the month of November next ensuing.
Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
(L. S.) Auckland, this first day of Octo-
ber, in the year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and for-
ty-four.
By Command,
ROBERT FITZROY.
Governor.
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary j
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1844, No 23
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⚖️ Proclamation establishing districts and locations for Courts of Requests
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement1 October 1844
Proclamation, Courts of Requests, Small Debts, Northern District, Southern District, Auckland, Russell, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson
- Robert FitzRoy, Governor
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary