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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1863.
A PROCLAMATION
Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrate's Court at Invercargill.
—
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-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 "Resident Magistrates'"
Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862," it
is enacted that every case of a claim for debt
or damages such as might at the passing of
the said Act be lawfully tried in a Resident
Magistrate's Court where the debt or damages
claimed do not exceed Twenty pounds may be
tried in any Resident Magistrate's Court
with respect to which this Act shall be in
operation when the debt or damages claimed
do not exceed Fifty pounds.
And it is provided that the Governor may,
by Proclamation in the Government Gazette
of the Colony, declare that the limit of Juris-
diction of any such Court shall be extended
to one hundred pounds, and such limit of
Jurisdiction shall be in such cases extended
accordingly.
Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
said recited Act, and of an Order in Council
dated the seventeenth day of December one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, au-
thorising the issue of Proclamations under the
said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the provisions of the said recited Act, and
especially the powers conferred by sections
two and three thereof, shall be exercised to the
limit of Jurisdiction of One hundred pounds in
the Resident Magistrate's Court at Inver-
cargill; and I do further proclaim and declare
that this proclamation shall take effect on and
from the first day of July one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House, at Auckland,
and issued under the Seal of
the Colony this twenty-seventh
day of June, 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!
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.
WHEREAS it is provided by the "Militia
Acts Amendment Act, 1862," that the
number of days and hours for the meeting of
the Militia for any District for training and ex-
ercise shall be from time to time fixed by the
Governor :
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NZ Gazette 1863, No 26
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🏛️ Proclamation Extending Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrate's Court at Invercargill
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration27 June 1863
Proclamation, Resident Magistrate's Court, Jurisdiction extension, Invercargill, Debt, Damages
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Alfred Domett
🛡️ Start of Proclamation regarding Militia training requirements
🛡️ Defence & MilitaryMilitia Acts Amendment Act, 1862, Training, Governor's power
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief