New Zealand Gazette – 1862 – No. 31

Page 247

✨ Court Sittings Proclamations

Numb. 31.
247

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1862.

A PROCLAMATION
Appointing a Special Sitting of the Supreme
Court to be held at Napier.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander 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 an Act of the General
Assembly, intituled "The Supreme
Court Act, 1860," it is provided that there
shall be held Courts for the despatch of the
Civil and Criminal business of the Court before
one of the Judges thereof at such places and
times as the Governor in Council may from
time to time appoint.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, do hereby
proclaim and appoint that a Sittings of
the Supreme Court shall be held at Napier in the
Province of Hawke's Bay, upon the twenty
ninth day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
two,

Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House, at Wellington, and
issued under the seal of the Colony
of New Zealand this sixteenth
day of August, in the year of our

Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.
G. GREY,
By His Excellency's command,
THOMAS B. GILLIES.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
Appointing a Special Sitting of the Supreme
Court to be held at Auckland..

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Supreme Court Act, 1860" it is provided
that there shall be held Courts for the despatch
of the Civil and Criminal business of the Court
before one of the Judges thereof, at such places
and times as the Governor in Council may from
time to time appoint:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, do hereby
proclaim and appoint that a Sittings of the
Supreme Court, for the despatch of the Civil
Business of the Court, shall be held at Auck-
land, upon the seventeenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1862, No 31

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

⚖️ Proclamation Appointing Special Supreme Court Sitting at Napier

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
Dated16 August 1862
KeywordsProclamation, Supreme Court, Special Sitting, Napier, Hawke's Bay, Civil and Criminal business
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
THOMAS B. GILLIES

⚖️ Proclamation Appointing Special Supreme Court Sitting at Auckland

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
KeywordsProclamation, Supreme Court, Special Sitting, Auckland, Civil Business, Supreme Court Act 1860
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief

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