✨ Proclamations and Warrants
Lumb. 22.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1864.
A PROCLAMATION
Constituting the " Otago Gold Fields" a Dis-
trict under the "District Courts Act, 1858."
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
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act,
1858," it is enacted that there shall
be within the Colony of New Zealand Courts
of Record, possessing Civil and Criminal
Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and
the Governor is empowered from time to
time as he shall think fit by Proclamation
in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute
throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof,
Districts within which such Courts shall be
respectively held, and such Districts to
abolish and the boundaries thereof to define
and alter, and also to declare by what local
name each such Court shall be designated.
Now, therefore, I, the said Sir George Grey,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance
of the aforesaid authority, do hereby proclaim
and constitute all the territory comprised
within the Gold Fields proclaimed, or here-
after to be proclaimed, in the Province of
Otago, to be a District within which a District
Court shall be held under the said Act.
And in further pursuance and exercise of
the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare
that the aforesaid Court shall be designated
by the name of "The District Court of the
Otago Gold Fields."
Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
Seventh day of June, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's Command,
FREDK. WHITAKER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
WARRANT
Appointing William Bertram White, Esquire,
a Civil Commissioner, under the " Native
Districts Regulation Act, 1858," for the Dis-
trict of Mangonui.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the Most Honorable 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 an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858,"
power was given to the Governor to appoint
Districts for the purposes of the said Act,
and to make and put in force regulations
within such Districts in manner and subject
to the provisions of the said Act: And by
the same Act it was provided that such
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🏛️ Proclamation Constituting Otago Gold Fields a District Court
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 June 1864
Proclamation, District Court, Otago Gold Fields, District Courts Act 1858, Jurisdiction
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Fredk. Whitaker
🪶 Warrant Appointing Civil Commissioner for Mangonui District
🪶 Māori AffairsWarrant, Civil Commissioner, Native Districts Regulation Act 1858, Mangonui, Appointment
- William Bertram White (Esquire), Appointed Civil Commissioner
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief