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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1857. [No. 18.]
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Resident Magistrates' Courts Extension
of Jurisdiction Act, 1856," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the re-
quest of the Superintendent of any Province,
by Proclamation in the "Government Gazette,"
to bring the said Act into operation in respect
to any Resident Magistrates' Court having
jurisdiction within such Province, from and
after a certain day to be named in such Pro-
clamation, and to define the districts within
which cases may be heard in such Court under
the provisions of this Act.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, upon the request of the Superinten-
dent of the Province of Nelson, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the said recited
Act shall come into operation in respect of the
Resident Magistrate's Court of Nelson, in the
said Province, from and after the first day of
August, in the year 1857, and that the said
Province of Nelson shall be the district within
which cases may be heard in such Court under
the provisions of the said recited Act.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, in the Colony aforesaid,
this fourteenth day of
July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial
Parliament passed in the fifteenth and
sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present
Majesty, Cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant
a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auck-
land, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson,
Canterbury and Otago, are thereby established;
and it is enacted that for each of the said
Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and
Provincial Council.
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NZ Gazette 1857, No 18
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🏛️ Proclamation extending Resident Magistrates' Courts jurisdiction to Nelson Province
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration14 July 1857
Proclamation, Resident Magistrates' Courts, Jurisdiction, Nelson Province, 1856 Act
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, and Vice Admiral of the same
- E. W. Stafford
🏛️ Proclamation regarding establishment of New Zealand Provinces and Councils
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationImperial Parliament, Constitution, Provinces, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand