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DIEU
ET
MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of September, 1869.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Disturbed Districts Act,
1869," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, by Order in Council, from time
to time to appoint special sittings of the Supreme
Court, to be held at such times and places, and
before such one or more Judges of the Supreme Court
as the Governor shall from time to time by any
Order in Council fix and appoint, for the trial of
persons accused or suspected of offences within the
meaning of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
in exercise of the powers vested in him by the
said Act, by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby
appoint a special sitting of the Supreme Court to be
held at the Supreme Court House at the Town of
Wellington, in the Province of Wellington, at ten of
the clock in the forenoon, on the twenty-seventh
day of September instant, before Alexander James
Johnston, Esquire, a Judge of the said Supreme
Court, for the trial of persons accused or suspected
of offences within the meaning of the said Act.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of September, 1869.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Disturbed Districts Act,
1869," it is enacted that where in "The Jury
Act, 1868," any act, matter, or thing in relation to
the issue or delivery of Jury process, or selection of
Jurors, or summoning of Jurors or otherwise, is
required to be done at or within a particular time or
period of time therein mentioned, it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to
order that, for the purpose of any special sitting of
the Supreme Court appointed as in the said Act
mentioned, such act, matter, or thing shall be done
at or within some other and shorter, or earlier or
later time, as he may think fit: And whereas by
"The Disturbed Districts Act, 1869," it is also enacted
that if at any time it shall appear to the Governor in
Council expedient that, for the purposes of any such
special sitting of the Supreme Court, a jury list
should be formed or jurors should be selected or
summoned in a different manner from that now
provided by law, or that any provision of "The Jury
Act, 1868," should be suspended, it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council to declare that "The Jury
Act, 1868," or any part or parts thereof, shall not
apply to trials to be held at such special sitting, and
that for the purposes of such special sittings juries
shall be formed of and from such persons or in such
manner as shall be in accordance with Rules to be
from time to time made by the Governor: And for
the purpose of any such special sitting it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time to make
Rules, and the same from time to time to revoke or
alter, prescribing what persons shall be liable to serve
on such juries, or providing for the formation of lists of
persons liable to serve as jurors, or for the issuing of
jury process, or for the summoning of jurors, or for
selecting from such lists the jurors to be summoned,
or for the challenging of jurors on the part of the
Crown or the person informed against, or for selecting
juries from the jurors summoned, and, generally, for
the formation of juries for the trial of informations
exhibited at any such special sitting of the Supreme
Court, and, generally, in and by such Rules to make
such other provision as the Governor may think fit
in lieu of any part of "The Jury Act, 1868," which
may have been suspended, and also in and by any
such Rules to fix and appoint pecuniary penalties for
the breach of any such Rules, which penalties shall