✨ Government Proclamations and Orders




336
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

sittings at such times and places as shall be, from
time to time, fixed by the Governor in Council, and
proclaimed in the Government Gazette sixty days at
least before the times so fixed respectively :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, doth hereby fix that a sitting of the
Court of Appeal of New Zealand shall be held within
the Supreme Court, in the City of Dunedin, and
Province of Otago, upon the seventeenth day of Octo-
ber, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-four, at
Eleven of the clock in the forenoon.

FOSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, on the
sixteenth day of August, 1864.

Present:–

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, by the "New Zealand Post Office
Act, 1858," power is given to the Governor in
Council from time to time to make Rules and Regu-
lations for the managing of the several Post Offices
within the said Colony, for the receiving, despatching,
conveying, and delivering, of letters (including
the imposition of fees for private boxes and de-
liveries); for the detaining, opening, and return, or
other disposal of irregularly posted, unclaimed, and
refused letters, or such as from any cause whatsoever
cannot be delivered or forwarded, and the contents
thereof respectively; and for the publication of the
lists of the same; and for the making, custody, and
sale of postage labels; for the receiving and paying
of money in connection with the said postal service,
and for the conduct of post officers; and any such
Rules and Regulations at any time in force to alter,
vary, or revoke; and for the purpose of giving effect
to the Rules and Regulations so to be made, further
power is given to the Governor in Council, by the
said Act to impose any penalty not exceeding Ten
Pounds for any one offence against such Rules and
Regulations:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of New Zealand, doth hereby revoke the present Post
Office Regulation number Thirty-eight, and doth
substitute the following in lieu thereof, and doth
declare that the same shall be in force from and after
the sixteenth day of August, 1864.

  1. Any letter, newspaper, or packet requiring to
    be re-directed to any place within or without the
    Post Office district to which it is at first addressed,
    becomes liable to a fresh rate of New Zealand
    postage, which new rate shall be payable, upon
    delivery, by the person to whom such letter shall
    have been so re-directed.

This regulation shall not apply to letters addressed
to the Officers and Men of Her Majesty's Naval and
Military Forces, or of the Militia or Volunteer
Forces engaged in the field or on active service.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Delegation of the Governor's Powers, under the "Gold-
Fields Act, 1862," to the Superintendent of
Canterbury.

Colony of New Zealand and its Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled the "Gold Fields
Act, 1862
," it is provided that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, under his hand and the
Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to de-
legate to the Superintendent of any Province, or
to such other person as the Governor may deem fit,
all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or
the Governor in Council by the said Act, except the
powers conferred by Sections Nineteen, Thirty-one,
Thirty-two, Thirty-three, and Sixty-one thereof, sub-
ject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he
may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke
any such powers:

Now therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the Governor
as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in ex-
ercise of the power and authority for this purpose
in me vested, do hereby delegate unto

SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire,

as Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury,
all the powers vested in me under or by virtue of
the "Gold Fields Act, 1862," except the powers con-
tained in Sections Nineteen, Thirty-one, Thirty-two,
Thirty-three, and Sixty-one of the said Act, to have,
hold, and exercise within the Province of Canter-
bury the said powers hereby given the said Samuel
Bealey, so long as he shall continue and remain
Superintendent of the said Province, and no longer :

Provided always that copies of all Rules and Regu-
lations made under the delegation aforesaid, shall be
forthwith transmitted to the Colonial Secretary, in
order that the same may be laid before the General
Assembly, in accordance with the provisions of the
Sixty-third Clause of the "Gold Fields Act, 1862."

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this sixteenth day of August, in the year
of Our Lord, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.

Delegation of the Governor's powers under β€œThe Gold
Fields Act, 1862," to the Superintendent of
Canterbury.

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

WHEREAS, by section 19 of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Gold Fields' Act, 1862," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, by order in Council,
from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field,
or for any part thereof, Wardens' Courts for the
administration of justice therein, and to appoint
Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with power to
act alone, or with Assessors or Juries, and in-such
manner and to exercise all or any of the powers
thereinafter mentioned as the Governor shall think
fit to direct :

And whereas, by the 5th section of an Act of the
General Assembly, intituled "The Gold Fields' Act
Amendment Act, 1863
," it is enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand



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πŸ›οΈ Fix sitting of the Court of Appeal in Dunedin (continued from previous page)

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
16 August 1864
Court of Appeal, Dunedin, Otago, Sitting dates
  • FOSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council
  • G. GREY, Governor

πŸš‚ Revocation of Post Office Regulation 38 concerning re-directed mail postage

πŸš‚ Transport & Communications
16 August 1864
Post Office Act 1858, Regulation change, Re-directed letters, Postage
  • G. GREY, Governor
  • FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council

🌾 Delegation of Governor's powers under Gold Fields Act, 1862, to Samuel Bealey

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
16 August 1864
Gold Fields Act 1862, Delegation, Canterbury, Superintendent
  • Samuel Bealey (Esquire), Appointed Superintendent of Canterbury

  • G. GREY, Governor
  • WILLIAM FOX

🌾 Legal provisions for constituting Wardens' Courts under Gold Fields Act

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
16 August 1864
Gold Fields Act 1862, Wardens' Courts, Legal provisions, Assessors