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607

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1871.

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 districts specified in the Schedule
hereto were, by Proclamation dated the first day of
November instant, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette on the twentieth day of November instant,
constituted Resident Magistrates' Districts, with
such boundaries as in the said Proclamation are
defined: And whereas it is expedient that the
jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates' Courts
within the districts mentioned in the said Schedule
should be extended to the limit of one hundred pounds
and fifty pounds respectively:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority in me
vested in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident Magis-
trate's Court of the District of Lyttelton so consti-
tuted as aforesaid, which is specified in the Schedule
hereto, shall, from and after the first day of Decem-
ber next, be extended to one hundred pounds; and
that the limit of jurisdiction of the Resident Magis-
trate's Court of the District of Akaroa, so constituted
as aforesaid, which is specified in the Schedule hereto,
shall, from and after the said first day of December
next, 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 twenty-
third day of November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

SCHEDULE.
Lyttelton District.
Akaroa District.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Act, 1870," it is
among other things enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the Governor, or such person as he shall
from time to time by Warrant under his hand
appoint as his deputy for that purpose, to direct the
Officer Commanding the Militia in any District with
all convenient speed, to draw out for actual service
such Militia Force, or such part or number thereof as
the Governor or his deputy shall judge necessary,
and in such manner as to him shall seem best, and to
lead the said forces into any part of the district in
which such Militia shall have been raised; and such
Militia shall continue on actual service until the
Governor shall by Proclamation release such Militia
from actual service: And whereas the whole of the
Militia for the respective Militia Districts mentioned
in the Schedule hereto have at divers times been
lawfully drawn out for actual service, and now are
on actual service, and it is expedient to release the
said Militia from such service as hereinafter pro-
vided: