Proclamations on Juries and Land




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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the third section of "The Jury
Law Amendment Act, 1862," it is provided
that the Governor in Council may, from time to time,
by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the
Colony, define the limits of districts for the formation
of Jury Lists under the several Ordinances following,
that is to say, under the Ordinance of the Governor
and Legislative Council of New Zealand (Session II.
No. 3), intituled "An Ordinance to regulate the con-
stitution of Juries," and the Ordinance of the Governor
and the said Council (Session III. No. 2), intituled
"An Ordinance to make temporary provision for the
constitution of Juries." And whereas by the said
Act, it is enacted that the term "Police Magistrate"
contained in the said Ordinances respectively, shall
mean and imply the Resident Magistrate for the
time being of the principal city of 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 Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
in me vested in this behalf, do hereby, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand,
proclaim and declare the district called the Westland
North District, the limits whereof are defined in and
by a certain proclamation bearing date the twentieth
day of January last, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the twenty-third day of January last, to be
a district for the formation of Jury Lists under the
said recited Ordinances and Act.

And I do with the like advice and consent,
proclaim and declare that the Resident Magistrate at
Westport shall be the Resident Magistrate meant
and implied by the term "Police Magistrate" in the
said Ordinances respectively.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington, and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
seventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Approved in Council:

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The County of
Westland Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time,
as he may think fit, by proclamation published in the
New Zealand Gazette, to make regulations for the
sale, letting, disposal, occupation, and management
of any Waste Lands of the Crown, and to alter the laws
in force within the said County, at the time of the
coming into operation of the said Act, regulating the
sale, letting, disposal, occupation and management of
such lands, within the said County of Westland, and
to sell and dispose thereof at such prices and in such
allotments and generally in such manner as he shall
deem expedient, and in like manner to alter, vary,
or annul any such regulations and to make others:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
G.C.M.G., the Governor as aforesaid, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of New
Zealand, and in exercise and pursuance of all powers
and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the regulations contained



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  • G. F. Bowen, Governor
  • E. W. Stafford
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

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