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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Supreme Courts Act, 1860," it is
provided that there shall be held Circuit
Courts for the despatch of civil and criminal
business of the Court before one of the Judges
thereof, at such times and places as the Governor
or in Council may from time to time appoint;
and whereas by a Proclamation dated the
Twenty-sixth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, Circuit Courts
were appointed to be held for the Middle Dis-
trict of the said Colony, at the Town of Welling-
ton, and at the Town of Nelson, on the several
days therein respectively mentioned, and it is
expedient that the times so appointed for the
holding of such Courts at Nelson aforesaid
should be altered as hereafter set forth, and that
Circuit Courts should also be held for the
said District at the Town of Napier:

Now therefore, I, the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council
of New Zealand, in pursuance and further
exercise of the said power and authority, do
hereby proclaim and appoint that Circuit
Courts for the Middle District of the said
Colony shall be held for the despatch of crimi-
nal and civil business of the Court, before the
Judge thereof to whom the said District
has been assigned, at the Town of Nelson, on
the sixteenth day of May and the six-
teenth day of November, in every year,
or as soon after the said days respectively
as conveniently may be; and, in case any one
of the said days so fixed as aforesaid shall
happen to be a Sunday or holiday, then the
Court appointed for such day shall be held
on the day following.

Given under my hand at New Ply-
mouth, and issued under the
Seal of the Colony of New Zea-
land, this thirteenth day of April,
in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three. G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of certain Persons.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by "The Naturalization
Act, 1862," it is enacted that every
person who shall be declared to come within

the operation of that Act by any Proclamation
to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency
the Governor, shall, as from the time in such
Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken
to be a naturalized subject of Her Majesty,
General Assembly, to be, and to have been from
such specified time, a natural-born subject
of Her Majesty, within the Colony of New
Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as
if his name had been inserted in the Schedule
to that Act annexed. Provided always that
every such Proclamation shall contain the de-
scription, occupation or calling of every person
therein named, and his place of residence at
the date of such Proclamation.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said
Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the
persons hereinafter mentioned shall come within
the operation of the said Act from the dates
hereinafter specified, viz.:—

FRITZ SCHLUTER,
From the Thirtieth day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,
Native of Prussia, Hotel-keeper, residence
City of Nelson, Province of Nelson.

JOHAN KESSEN,
From the Sixth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, Native of Ger-
many, Sawyer, residence Woodend, in the
Province of Canterbury.

Given under my hand, at New Ply-
mouth, and issued under the
Seal of the Colony of New Zea-
land, this thirteenth day of April,
One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three. G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

WARRANT
Appointing Petty Sessions of the Peace to be
held at Rangitikei.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of the
Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Command-
er-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zea-
land, and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., &c.

KNOW all men by these presents that I,
Sir George Grey, the Governor as
aforesaid of the said Colony, in pursuance and
execution of the power for this purpose vested
in me by the "Petty Sessions Act, 1858," do
hereby appoint that Petty Sessions of the
Peace shall be held in and for the Petty
Sessional District of Rangitikei at the times
and places hereunder set forth, that is to say:—
At Turakina, at the "Ben Nevis" hotel, on
the second Tuesday in every month, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon.