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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1868.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The Resident
Magistrates' Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by pro-
clamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute
throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof,
districts, to be called Resident Magistrates' Districts,
and such districts from time to time to abolish, and
the boundaries to define and alter, and in such pro-
clamation to fix a time on and from which any such
district shall be constituted or abolished, as the case
may be. And whereas by a proclamation bearing
date the twenty-ninth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and pub-
lished in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-
first day of December of the same year, certain
districts were constituted under the said Act,
amongst others, the "Coromandel District," and the
"Hauraki District." And whereas it is expedient
that the said districts should be constituted one
district under the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
so vested in me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that from the first day of April next, the
territory comprised within the said "Coromandel
District" and the said "Hauraki District," shall be
one single district, within the meaning and for the
purposes of "The Resident Magistrates' Act, 1867,"
and shall be called the

HAURAKI DISTRICT.

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 twentieth
day of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
J. C. RICHMOND,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority in me vested in this behalf by "The
Resident Magistrates' Act, 1867," I, Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that
from and after the first day of April next, the
jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates' Courts for
the

HAURAKI DISTRICT,

as the same is defined by a proclamation bearing even
date herewith, shall be extended to fifty pounds.

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 twentieth
day of March, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
J. C. RICHMOND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough as soon as con-