✨ Orders in Council
Aumb. 6.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1862.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
Making Regulations for Aboriginal Natives
to serve on Juries.
G. Grey,
Governor.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
ON THURSDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1862.
Present:—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
P URSUANT to the provisions of the Jury
Amendment Ordinance, 1844, His Ex-
cellency the Governor and the Executive
Council do make and issue the following Regu-
lations as regards Aboriginal Natives to serve
on Juries:—
The Resident Magistrate in every District
is to ascertain, to the best of his ability, the
persons of the aboriginal race who, in his judg-
ment, may from their personal qualifications,
appear to be capable to serve on Juries.
He is to prepare a list of such persons, and
return the same to His Excellency, who will
make any and what selections he may please
from such List, and will return the List cor-
rected and duly certified to the Magistrate.
The List so corrected and certified will be
transmitted by the Magistrate to the Sheriff.
The persons whose names shall appear on
such Lists shall be held qualified and liable to
serve as Jurors.
And doth declare that this Order shall take
effect from and after the 9th day of January,
1862.
JAMES HOLT,
Clerk of Executive Council.
ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Appointing District of "Tokomaru" under
Native Circuit Courts Act.
G. GREY,
Governor.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
ON WEDNESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1862.
Present:—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
W HEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
the "Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858," it is
provided that it shall be lawful for the Gover-
nor in Council from time to time to appoint
Districts for the purposes of the said Act, being
Districts over which the Native Title shall not
for the time being have been extinguished:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, by and with the advice and consent of His
Executive Council, doth hereby order, appoint,
and declare that the Territory hereafter de-
scribed shall be a District for the purposes of
the said Act, that is to say:—
All Territory lying within a boundary line
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🪶 Regulations for Aboriginal Natives serving on Juries
🪶 Māori Affairs9 January 1862
Regulations, Juries, Aboriginal Natives, Resident Magistrate, Sheriff
- G. Grey, Governor
- JAMES HOLT, Clerk of Executive Council
🪶 Appointment of "Tokomaru" District under Native Circuit Courts Act
🪶 Māori Affairs8 January 1862
Native Circuit Courts Act, District Appointment, Tokomaru Territory
- G. GREY, Governor