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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

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 June next, the juris-
diction to be exercised by Thomas Windle Parker,
Esq., within the Resident Magistrate's Court for the
OAMARU DISTRICT,
as the same is defined by a proclamation bearing date
the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, 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; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this seventh day of May, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.

T. M. HAULTAIN,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by an ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Colony of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance
for the Regulation of Prisons," Sess. VII., No. 7, the
Governor is empowered from time to time to make
such rules and regulations as to him may seem fit,
touching the duties of the officers of any public gaol,
the classification, diet, instruction, treatment and
correction of the prisoners therein, and generally to
prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the
good discipline of any public gaol and the safe
custody of the prisoners therein. And whereas by
an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony,
intituled "The Secondary Punishment Act Amend-
ment Act, 1863," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time to make such
rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet for
the employment, safe custody, management and

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WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1868.

discipline of convicts under sentence of penal ser-
vitude, and to enforce the observance of such rules
and regulations by solitary confinement for any
period not exceeding one month at any one time, or
for three months in periods of one month at intervals
of at least one month each; by placing in irons;
by whipping not exceeding fifty lashes at one time;
by imprisonment, not exceeding twelve months in
addition to the original sentence; and by such prison
discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf: Pro-
vided always that no rule or regulation awarding
any such punishment as aforesaid shall come into
operation until a copy thereof shall have been first
published in the New Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under and
by virtue of the provisions of the said Ordinances
and Acts respectively contained, do hereby make the
following regulations for the purposes hereinbefore
recited, and do publish the same to be in force within
the Province of Auckland.

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; and issued at
Wellington, this twelfth day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

PRISON REGULATIONS FOR AUCKLAND GAOL.

1. Deprivation of liberty and compulsory labour
   are the appointed penalty of crime. Prisoners while
   undergoing the punishment attached to their offences
   by the laws they have broken, are exhorted to
   remember that society, while it punishes, in order to
   deter from crime, has also another object in view—
   an object of the deepest interest to criminals them-
   selves—viz., that the period of their imprisonment
   may be to them a period of salutary reflection, that
   while withdrawn from the temptations to which they
   have yielded, they may acquire calmer and more
   rational views of the circumstances of life, and, upon
   expiration of their sentence, leave the place of their
   confinement better men and better citizens, whatever