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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1872.

(1.8.) G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by virtue of the power vested in the
by "The Marine Act, 1867," the
limits of the Port of Auckland were, for the pur-
poses of the said Act, defined by a Proclamation dated
the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight: And whereas it is
expedient to define anew the limits of the said
port:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fer-
guson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Colony, and in pursuance and
exercise of the power and authority for that pur-
pose vested in him by "The Marine Act, 1867," doth
hereby define the limits of the Port of Auckland for
the purposes of the said Act to be as under:-

A straight line from the East Head of the Tamaki
River to Park Point, Waihiki Island, thence in a
straight line to the north-eastern point of Pehi
Matawha (Home) Bay, Motutapu Island, and a
straight line West (true) from Rangitoto Reef to the
opposite shore.

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-
fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.

WILLIAM Fox, Presiding.

Approved in Council, 24th June, 1872.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(L.S.) 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 Proclamations dated the eleventh
day of July instant, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette on the fifteenth day of July
instant, constituted Resident Magistrates' Districts,
with such boundaries as in the said Proclamations are
defined: And whereas it is expedient that the juris-
diction 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 Clutha so constituted
as aforesaid, which is specified in the Schedule hereto,
shall, from and after the first day of September next,
be extended to one hundred pounds; and that the
limit of jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates'
Courts of the District of Otago Gold Fields and the
District of Kaipara, so constituted as aforesaid, which
are specified in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and
after the said first day of September next, be ex-
tended to fifty pounds.