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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1864.

A PROCLAMATION

Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates'
Courts at Laurence, and at Hamilton, in the Pro-
vince of Otago.

Given under my hand, at the Government
House, at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand,
this eleventh day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
G. GREY.

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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS 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 exercised to the limit of Jurisdiction of
One Hundred Pounds, in the Resident Magistrates'
Court, at Laurence on the Tuapeka Gold Fields, and
at Hamilton in the Taieri Gold Fields, respectively,
in the Province of Otago; and I do further pro-
claim and declare that this Proclamation shall take
effect on and from the first day of December,
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-four.

By His Excellency's command,
FRED. WHITAKER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION

Declaring the Resident Magistrates at Queenstown, at
Clyde, at Laurence, and at Hamilton, in the Pro-
vince of Otago, to be "Police Magistrates" under
the Jury Ordinance and the Jury Amendment Or-
dinance.

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 Depen-
dencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Jury Law Amendment Act,
1862," it is enacted that the term "Police
Magistrate," contained in an Ordinance passed by
the Governor and Legislative Council of New
Zealand, (Session II, No. 3,) entitled "An Ordinance
to regulate the constitution of Juries," and in a
further Ordinance passed by the Governor and the
said Council, (Session III, No. 2,) entitled "An
Ordinance to make temporary provision for the con-
stitution of Juries," shall mean and imply the
Resident Magistrate for the time being of the prin-
cipal City or Town in each Province, and also the
Resident Magistrate acting in any District or Place
which may be from time to time specified in any
Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by or under
the authority of the Governor in Council: Now
therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as