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653

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1873.

Proclamation constituting East Coast District Court.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The District Courts Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that there shall be within the
Colony of New Zealand Courts of Record, possessing
Civil and Criminal jurisdiction, to be called District
Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time
to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the
Colony, or in any part thereof, districts within which
such Courts shall be respectively held, and such
districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to
define or alter, and also to declare by what local
name such Courts shall be designated:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance and
exercise of the aforesaid power and authority, do
hereby constitute and proclaim the district of the
said Colony hereinafter described or referred to, to be
a district within which a District Court shall be held
under the said Act and under "The District Courts
Amendment Act, 1865:"

And in further pursuance and exercise of the
authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the said
Court shall be designated by the name hereunder
specified, that is to say,–

Designation of Court:
"The East Coast District Court."

Description of District:

The "East Coast District" shall comprise all
that portion of the Province of Auckland bounded
towards the North and East by the sea from Ngakuri-
a-whare Point to the southern boundary of the said
Province; thence towards the South by the said
southern boundary to the western boundary of the
Province of Taranaki; thence towards the North-
west by that boundary to its most northern point,
and by a right line to the southern angle of the
Tauranga Block (confiscated land); thence towards
the South-west and North-west by the said Tauranga
Block to the sea at Ngakuri-a-whare Point, the com-
mencing point; together with the whole of the
Province of Hawke's Bay.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Christchurch; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony this seven-
teenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

JULIUS VOGEL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation giving extended Criminal Jurisdiction
to the East Coast District Court.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand, intituled "The District
Courts Criminal Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1870,"
it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation,
from time to time declare that any District Court
shall have cognizance of all felonies and indictable
misdemeanours, as specified in the fourth section of
the said Act:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursu-
ance and exercise of the power vested in me by the
said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that

THE EAST COAST DISTRICT COURT

shall henceforth have cognizance of all felonies and
indictable misdemeanours committed before or after
the passing of the said Act within the district over
which its jurisdiction extends, saving only the felonies
specially excepted in and by the fourth clause of the
said Act.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, 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 Christchurch, this seven-
teenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three.

JULIUS VOGEL.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!