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Judge to regulate the proceedings.
9. The Judge may direct at what place and time
any such Deputy Judge shall sit, and what causes
shall be heard before him, and generally make such
arrangements as to him shall seem proper as to the
division and despatch of the business of the Court.

Tenure of office of Deputy Judges.
10. The Judge may, if he thinks fit, with the
approval in writing of the Governor, at any time
revoke the appointment of any such Deputy Judge
or Judges, but the appointment shall not be deter-
mined by the occurrence of a vacancy in the office of
the Judge.

Judge may delegate Ministerial powers.
11. The Judge may, if he thinks fit, from time to
time delegate all or any of his ministerial powers to
any such Deputy Judge or Judges.

Judge may appoint Deputy Registrars and Marshals.
12. The Judge may from time to time, if he thinks
fit, appoint any competent persons to act respec-
tively as Deputy Registrars and Deputy Marshals of
the Court, and may, if he thinks fit, at any time
revoke any such appointment, but the appointment
shall not be determined by the occurrence of a
vacancy in the office of the Judge.

Admiralty may revoke appointments.
13. Notwithstanding anything contained in this
Act, it shall be lawful for the Admiralty, if they
think fit, at any time to revoke the appointment of
any Deputy Judge, Deputy Registrar, or Deputy
Marshal appointed under this Act.

Deputies to receive fees.
14. Any Deputy Judge, Deputy Registrar, or
Deputy Marshal appointed under this Act, shall be
entitled to the same fees, in respect of any duty
performed by him, as would be lawfully payable to
the Judge, Registrar, or Marshal respectively for the
performance of the same duty.

Barristers and Solicitors entitled to practise in Vice-Admiralty
Courts.
15. All persons entitled to practise as advocates,
barristers-at-law, proctors, attorneys-at-law, or solici-
tors in the Superior Courts of a British Possession,
shall be entitled to practise in the same respective
capacities in the Vice-Admiralty Court or Courts
of such Possession, and shall have therein all the
rights and privileges respectively belonging to advo-
cates, barristers-at-law, proctors, atttorneys-at-law,
and solicitors, and shall in like manner be subject to
the authority of the person for the time being lawfully
exercising the office of Judge of such Court.

Her Majesty may establish a Vice-Admiralty Court in a
Possession having Legislative powers.
16. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to empower
the Admiralty, by Commission under the Great Seal,
to establish one or more Vice-Admiralty Courts in
any British Possession, notwithstanding that such
Possession may have previously acquired independent
legislative powers; and the jurisdiction and authority
of all the existing Vice-Admiralty Courts are hereby
declared to be confirmed, to all intents and purposes,
notwithstanding that the Possession in which any
such Court has been established may at the time of
its establishment have been in possession of legislative
powers.

Extended to the Straits Settlements.
17. "The Vice-Admiralty Courts Act, 1863," shall,
together with this Act, apply to any Vice-Admiralty
Court now established or hereafter to be established
in the Straits Settlements.

26 and 27 Vict., c. 24, sec. 23, extended to Appeals from Vice-
Admiralty Courts in Indian Possessions.
18. The limitation of the time allowed for appeals
contained in the twenty-third section of "The Vice-

Admiralty Courts Act, 1863," shall be held to apply
to all decrees or orders pronounced in any Vice-
Admiralty Court now established or hereafter to be
established in any of Her Majesty's Possessions in
India.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1867.
COMPENSATION CLAIMS.-Notice is hereby
given that no claims for compensation for losses
arising in the Whanganui District out of the Native
War will be investigated by the Commissioner, Major
Edwards, unless such claim shall have been formally
made on or before the 1st March, 1868. All claims
should be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary
(Native Branch), without delay.
E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 19th December, 1867.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermen tioned gentlemen to
be Resident Magistrates, under "The Resident
Magistrates' Act, 1867," for the districts set opposite
their names, as the same are defined in the procla-
tion dated the 29th day of November last :-

Thomas Beckham, Esq., Auckland District.
John Jermyn Symonds, Esq., Onehunga District.
Charles Mellsop, Esq., Papakura District.
James Speedy, Esq., Waiuku District.
Harcourt Richard Aubrey, Esq., Whangarei
District.
James Mackay, Esq., jun., Thames District.
Edward Marsh Williams, Esq., Bay of Islands
District.
William Kerr Nesbitt, Esq., Maketu District.
William Gilbert Mair, Esq., Opotiki District.
John Rogan, Esq., Kaipara District.
Robert Clapham Barstow, Esq., Bay of Islands
District.
William Bertram White, Esq., Mongonui
District.
Henry Charles Lawlor, Esq., Coromandel
District.
William Nicholas Searancke, Esq., Waikato
District.
Robert Oliphant Stewart, Esq., Raglan District.
Henry Tacy Clarke, Esq., Tauranga District.
Josiah Flight, Esq., New Plymouth District.
James Hunter Campbell, Esq., Waiapu District.
John Curling, Esq., Napier and Waipukurau
District.
George Sisson Cooper, Esq., Napier and Waipu-
kurau District.
Samuel Deighton, Esq., Wairoa District.
James Coutts Crawford, Esq., Wellington
District.
James Townsend Edwards, Esq., Otaki District.
Herbert Samuel Wardell, Esq., Wairarapa
District.
David Stark Durie, Esq., Wanganui District.
James Booth, Esq., Upper Wanganui District.
John Poynter, Esq., Nelson District.
Henry Widowson Turnell, Esq., Collingwood
District.
Thomas Alfred Sneyd Kynnersley, Esq., Nelson
South-west Gold Fields District.
Charles Broad, Esq., Nelson South-west Gold
Fields District.
James Roger Dutton, Esq., Nelson South-west
Gold Fields District.
Joseph Giles, Esq., Nelson South-west Gold
Fields District.
Stephen Lunn Müller, Esq., Marlborough Dis-
trict.