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Auckland, this twenty-seventh
day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
FREDK. WHITAKER.
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, and
Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof Session 3, No. 1, intituled "An Ordi-
nance for establishing a Supreme Court," it is
amongst other things enacted 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 his Excellency the
Governor shall, with the advice of the Executive
Council, by Proclamation from time to time
appoint.

Now, I, the Governor, under and by virtue of
the authority in me for that purpose vested by
the said recited Ordinance, do hereby with the
advice of the Executive Council, proclaim and
appoint that a Circuit Court for the despatch
of Civil business in the Southern Division of
the Colony shall be holden at Wellington on
the seventh day of March, the seventh day of
June, the seventh day of September, and the
seventh day of December in every year, and in
case any one of the days aforesaid shall happen
to be a Sunday or Holiday, then that such
Court shall be holden on the day following.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Auckland, this fourth
day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By his Excellency's command,
F. WHITAKER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 28th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

HARCOURT R. AUBREY,

to be Registrar under "The Marriage Act,
1854," and Deputy Registrar of Births,

Deaths, and Marriages, under the Registration
Ordinance, Sess. 8, No. 9, for the district of
Kaipara.

By his Excellency's command,
F. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 28th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
R. B. SCOTT, Master Shipwright, and
WILLIAM AKERSTEN, Master Mariner,
to be Surveyors, at the Port of Nelson, of
Passenger Ships, under the "Passenger Act,
1855."

By his Excellency's command,
F. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 27th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
EDWARD BOLGER,
to be Pilot for the Port of Russell.

By his Excellency's command,
F. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, February 28th, 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to
be notified that the undermentioned
Acts passed by the General Assembly during
the 3rd Session have been submitted to the
Queen, and that Her Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to leave them to their operation.
No. 1. An Act for the Naturalization of
certain persons in the Colony of New
Zealand, 15th September, 1855.
2. An Act to amend the New Zealand
Company's Land Claimants Ordinance,
15th September, 1855.
3. An Act for bringing into operation
within the Colony certain Acts of the
Imperial Parliament, 15th September,
1855.
4. An Act to provide for the Appropria-
tion of the Public Revenue of New
Zealand, 15th September, 1855.

By his Excellency's command,
F. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.

Registrar General's Office,
Auckland, 17th February, 1857.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zea-
land, entitled "The Marriage Act, 1854," the
following Names of OFFICIATING MINISTERS
within the meaning of the said Act are pub-
lished for general information.