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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1859.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, 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 the "District Courts Act,
1858," it is enacted that there shall be,
within the Colony of New Zealand, Courts
of Record possessing Civil and Criminal
Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and
the Governor is empowered from time to time,
as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to constitute through-
out the Colony, or in any part thereof, Dis-
tricts within which such Courts shall be res-
pectively held, and such Districts to abolish,
and the boundaries thereof to define or alter,
and also to declare by what local name each
such Court shall be designated.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pur-
suance and execution of the aforesaid authority
do hereby proclaim and constitute the Pro-
vince of
TARANAKI
to be a District within which a District Court
shall be held under the said Act.
And in further pursuance and exercise of
the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare
that the aforesaid Court shall be designated by
the name of "The District Court of Tara-
naki."
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of
the Colony, at Government
House, at Auckland, in the
Colony aforesaid, this 13th
day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, 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 the "District Courts Act,
1858," it is enacted that there shall be,
within the Colony of New Zealand, Courts of
Record possessing Civil and Criminal Juris-
diction, to be called District Courts, and the
Governor is empowered from time to time, as
he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New
Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony, or in any part thereof, Districts within
which such Courts shall be respectively held,
and such Districts to abolish, and the bounda-
ries thereof to define or alter, and also to
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