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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1869.

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, or at any
time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to
declare that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrate's Court of any district shall be extended
to fifty pounds, or to one hundred pounds, as he may
think proper, and thereupon such Court shall have
power to hear and determine any case in which the
amount of the debt or damage claimed shall not
exceed the limit fixed by such Proclamation, and
which might have been lawfully tried in such Court
in case the amount of the debt or damage claimed
therein had not exceeded twenty pounds: And
whereas the Marlborough District was, by Pro-
clamation dated the twenty-ninth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-
first day of December of the same year, constituted
a Resident Magistrate's District, with such boundaries
as in the said Proclamation are defined: And
whereas, by another Proclamation bearing date the
twentieth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, the jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court in the said District of
Marlborough was extended to fifty pounds, and it is
expedient to extend the jurisdiction of the said Court
to one hundred pounds:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
in me vested in this behalf by the said recited Act,
do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after
the first day of March next, the jurisdiction of the
Resident Magistrate's Court of the District of
Marlborough shall be extended to One Hundred
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 Dependenc and Vice-
Admiral of the same, at the Government
House, at Wellington; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, this fifteenth
day of February, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

VICTORIA, by the grace of God, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth:

To our trusty and loving subjects,

The Honorable ALFRED DOMETT, Member of the
Legislative Council, and Secretary for Crown
Lands;

FRANCIS DILLON BELL, Esquire, Member of the
House of Representatives;

GEORGE SISSON COOPER, Esquire, Native Under
Secretary;

ROBERT HART, Esquire, -Greeting:

WHEREAS the Governor of Our Colony of New
Zealand, with the advice of the Executive
Council thereof, has deemed it expedient that a
Commission should forthwith issue to inquire into
and report upon the condition and nature of Educa-
tional and other Trust Estates held directly under
Grant from the Crown upon special Trust for
Religious, Educational, or Charitable purposes, and
particularly to inquire into the extent and application
of the Endowments, Funds, and Revenues belonging