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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council, and in exercise of the
powers in this behalf vested in him by the said
recited Act, doth by this present order estab-
lish a new Province to be called and known by
the name of Hawke's Bay, and doth define
the limits of the said Province to be as follows,
that is to say, All that district, being hereto-
fore parcel of the Province of Wellington
which lies or is within the limits following,
that is to say, a line commencing at a stream
called Waimata, near Cape Turnagain, run-
ning along the Northern boundary of Puke-
toi to Puke-toi range, thence in a straight line
to where Te-rua-mea falls into Manawatu River,
near Awa Purua, thence along the Manawatu
River, to the gorge in the Ruahine Moun-
tains, thence along the summit of the said
mountains to latitude 39° 30' South, thence
in a right line to a point in latitude 39°
South, longitude 176° 30' East, thence in an
Easterly direction along the 39th parallel of
South latitude to the sea coast and thence
Southwards along the coast line including the
islands adjacent thereto, to the Waimata
Stream.

And the Governor, with the advice and con-
sent aforesaid, doth hereby in further pur-
suance of the said Act, constitute the Town of
Napier to be the capital of the said Province
of Hawke's Bay.

And doth declare that this order shall take
effect on this first day of November, 1858.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,
to our trusty and loving subjects
Alexander Alexander, Esq.
Edward Spencer Curling, Esq.
Donald Gollan, Esq.
John Chilton Lambton Carter, Esq.
John Curling, Esq.
Henry Russell, Esq.
James Anderson, Esq.
John Valentine Smith, Esq.
Alfred George Newman, Esq.
Walter Ogilvie, Esq.
James Burne Ferguson, Esq.

GREETING :

KNOW YE that we have assigned you
jointly and severally, and every of
our Justices to keep our Peace in the Province
of Hawke's Bay, in our Colony of New Zea-
land, and to keep and cause to be kept all
ordinances and statutes for the good of the
Peace, and for preservation of the same and
for the quiet rule and government of our peo-
ple, made, in all and singular their articles, in
the said Province according to the force form
and effect of the same; and to chastise and
punish all persons that offend against the form
of those ordinances or statues, or any one of
them, in the aforesaid Province as it ought to
be done according to the form of those ordi-
nances and statutes ; and to cause to come be-
fore you, or any of you, all those who to any
one or more of our people, concerning their
bodies, or the firing of their houses, have used
threats, to find sufficient security for the Peace,
or their good behaviour towards us and our
people; and if they shall refuse to find such
security, then them in our prisons, until they
shall find such security, to cause to be safely
kept. We have also assigned you, and every
two or more of you our Justices to enquire the
truth more fully by the oath of good and law-
ful men of the aforesaid Province by whom the
truth of the matter shall be better known of
all and all manner of felonies, misdemeanors,
and trespasses whatsoever, and of all and sin-
gular other crimes and offences of which the
Justices of our Peace may or ought lawfully to
enquire, by whomsoever and after what man-
ner soever in the said Province done or pérpe-
trated, or which shall happen to be there done
or attempted.

And also, of all those who in the aforesaid
Province, in companies against our Peace, in
disturbance of our people, with armed force,
have gone or rode, or hereafter shall presume
to go or ride; and also, of all those who have
there lain in wait, or hereafter shall presume to
lie in wait, to maim or cut, or kill our people.
And also, of all victuallers, and all and singular
other persons, who in the abuse of weights or
measures, or in selling victuals, against the
form of the ordinances and statutes, or any
one of them therefor made or in force for the
common benefit of the said Province, and our
people thereof, have offended, or attempted, or
hereafter shall presume in the said Province to
offend or attempt. And also, of all sheriffs,
constables, keepers of gaols, and other officers,
who in the execution of their offices about the
premises, or any of them, have unduly be-
haved themselves, or hereafter shall presume to
behave themselves unduly, or have been, or
shall happen hereafter to be careless, remiss, or
negligent in the aforesaid Province. And of
all and singular articles and circumstances, and
all other things whatsoever that concern the
premises, or any of them, by whomsoever, and
after what manner soever, in the aforesaid Pro-
vince done or perpetrated, or which hereafter
shall there happen to be done or attempted in
what manner soever. And to inspect all in-
dictments whatsoever so before you or any of
you, taken or to be taken, or before others late
our Justices of the Peace in the aforesaid Pro-
vince made or taken, and not yet determined;
And to make and continue processes thereupon
against all and singular the persons so indicted,
or who before you hereafter shall happen to be
indicted, until they can be taken, surrender
themselves, or be outlawed. And to hear and
determine all and singular the felonies, misde-
meanors and trespasses, unlawful assemblies,
and indictments aforesaid, and all and singular
other the premises according to the laws and