THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 347

WHEREAS THEREAS by the "Resident Magistrates' Juris-
diction 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 the sum of
Twenty Pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magis-
trate'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 Govern-
ment Gazette of the Colony, declare that the limit of
Jurisdiction 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, authorising 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 excercised to the limit of Jurisdiction of
One Hundred Pounds, in the Resident Magistrate's
Court at Queenstown, and at Clyde, in the Province
of Otago; and I do further proclaim and declare
that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from
the first day of September, One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Sixty-four.

consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in
pursuance of the power and authority for this purpose
in me vested, do hereby delegate unto

JOHN PERRY ROBINSON, Esquire,

as Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, all
the powers vested in me by the 19th section of the
"Gold Fields' Act, 1862," to have, hold, and exercise
within the Province of Nelson the said powers hereby
given the said John Perry Robinson so long as he
shall continue and remain Superintendent of the said
Province, and no longer, and to have, hold, and
exercise such powers subject to the Regulations
hereunder written, namely:-

REGULATIONS.

All acts and appointments done and made by the
said Superintendent under the foregoing Delegation
shall be provisional until the same shall have been
confirmed and allowed by the Governor; and the
Governor shall have power to disallow the same.

The Superintendent shall report without dalay to
the Governor all such acts and appointments.

The Superintendent shall lay before the Provincial
Council of the said Province every such act and ap-
pointment at the Session of the said Council next
following.

The Provincial Council of the said Province may,
through their Speaker, transmit to the Governor any
resolutions respecting any such act or appointment.

Given under my hand at the Government
House at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony, this Twenty-fifth
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.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this twenty-sixth 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 Governer's powers under the "Gold
Fields Act, 1862," to the Superintendent of
Nelson.

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., &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
and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time
to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province or
to such other person as the Governor may deem fit,
and under such restrictions as he shall think fit,
all or any of the powers vested in the Governor, or
the Governor in Council, by section 19 of the said
Act, and to alter or revoke by said delegation.

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and

W. H. Pilliet, Esquire, appointed a Justice of Peace.

Attorney General's Office,
Auckland, 1st August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

WALTER HIPPOLYTE PILLIET, Esquire,
of Havelock, in the Province of Marlborough, to be
a Justice of the Peace, for the Colony of New
Zealand.

FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Justices of the Peace Appointed.

Attorney General's Office,
Auckland, 17th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint-

Wilson Gray, Esq., Gold-fields, Otago
David Lewis, Esq., Wellington
Edward Miller, Esq., "
Edward Pearce, Esq.,
Alexander Mackay, Esq., Nelson
Charles Cockburn Schaw, Esq., Wakatipu, Otago
James Dowling Rogers, Esq., "Hind," Canter-
bury
Charles Hawkin Greenstrect, Esq., Ashburton,
Canterbury
Michael Scott Campbell, Esq., Ashburton, Can-
terbury
John Rochfort, Esq., West Coast, Canterbury
John William Williams, Esq., Waimate, Auck-
land, and
Marsden Clarke, Esq., Waimate, Auckland
to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New
Zealand.

FREDERICK WHITAKER.