✨ Supreme Court District Proclamation
DIEU ET MON DROIT
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE:
(Published by Authority).
NEW PLYMOUTH, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1863.
PROCLAMATION
Dividing the Southern District of Supreme Court and fixing times and
places for Circuit Courts.
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 Majesty's Colony of
New Zealand and its Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled
the "Supreme Court Act, 1860," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time
to divide the Colony into Judicial Districts
for the purposes of the said Act and the
limits of such Districts from time to time
to alter as occasion may require; And by
the said Act it is further provided that
the Governor in Council shall assign every
such District to a Judge or Judges of the
Supreme Court, who shall have within the
same all the powers and jurisdiction by
the said Act given to the Court; And it
is further 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
in Council may from time to time ap-
point. AND WHEREAS by a Proclamation
dated the twenty-sixth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, issued under the hand of Thomas
Gore Browne, Esquire, then the Gover-
nor of the said Colony and under the
Public Seal thereof the said Colony for
the purposes of the Act was divided into
three Districts, called respectively the
Northern District, the Middle District,
and the Southern District, which Districts
are particularly described in the said Pro-
clamation; And in the said Proclamation
the said Southern District was assigned
unto Henry Barnes Gresson, Esquire, a
Judge of the said Court and certain times
and places were appointed for holding
Circuit Courts as aforesaid for the said
Southern District: AND WHEREAS by a
Proclamation made and issued as afore-
said bearing date the sixth day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, Circuit Courts where appointed to
be held at Dunedin in the said Southern
District on the days therein mentioned:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient that a new
District under the said Act should be
formed by the division of the said South-
ern District into two Districts:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the said Colony, with the ad-
vice and consent of the Executive Coun-
cil thereof, do hereby in pursuance and
execution of the said Act annul the said
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NZ Gazette 1863, No 14A
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⚖️ Proclamation Dividing Southern District of Supreme Court
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement27 April 1863
Supreme Court, Judicial Districts, Southern District, Circuit Courts, Proclamation, Executive Council
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief