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481

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1867.

VICTORIA, by the grace of God of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith:

To

His Honor ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esq.,
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court;
His Honor CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM RICHMOND, Esq.,
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court;
The Honourable PONSONBY PEACOCKE,
Member of the Legislative Council;
CHARLES EDWARD HAUGHTON, Esq.,
Member of the House of Representatives; and
JAMES O'NEILL, Esq.,
Member of the House of Representatives:

WHEREAS we have deemed it expedient, for
divers good causes and considerations, that a
Commission should forthwith issue for the purpose of
enquiring into the more effective provision for the
regulation of prisons, and for the custody of persons
convicted of serious crimes, and sentenced to long
periods of imprisonment:

Now know ye that we, reposing great trust and
confidence in your zeal and ability, have authorized
and appointed, and do by these presents authorize
and appoint you, the said

ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON,
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM RICHMOND,
PONSONBY PEACOCKE,
CHARLES EDWARD HAUGHTON, and
JAMES O'NEILL,

To be, during our pleasure, our Commissioners to
enquire into the provisions and operation of the laws
and regulations now in force relative to prisons and
gaols in the Colony, and into the treatment and
management of prisoners, and into the condition and
state of such prisons and gaols, and into the more
effective provision for their regulation, and for the
custody and treatment of prisoners, especially those
convicted of serious crimes and sentenced to long

periods of imprisonment; and to report whether any
and, if any, what alteration is desirable, and whether
it would be desirable that a General Penal Establish-
ment should be instituted for the Colony, and if so,
on the best mode of instituting such establishment.

And our further will and pleasure is, that you do
within six months after the date of this our
Commission, or as much sooner as the same can
conveniently be done (using all diligence), certify to
us under your hands and seals, or under the hands
and seals of any one or more of you, your several
proceedings, and your opinion touching the premises.

And we further will and command, and by these
presents ordain, that this our Commission shall con-
tinue in full force and virtue, and that you our said
Commissioners, or any one or more of you, shall and
may from time to time proceed in the execution
thereof, and of every matter and thing therein con-
tained, although the same be not continued from
time to time by adjournment.

And we hereby command all and singular, our
Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs,
Constables, Officers, Ministers, and all other our
loving subjects whatsoever, as well within liberties as
without, that they be assistant to you and each of
you in the execution of these presents:

In testimony whereof we have caused these our
Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of our said
Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir
GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
our Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over our said Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, and in the
thirty-first year of our reign.

G. GREY.

Approved in Council:

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ERRATUM.-In New Zealand Gazette, No. 62, of 21st November, 1867, page 447, in the warrant fixing sittings at Clyde of
the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, for "second Monday in May next," read "second Wednesday in May next."