THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

491

in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and its Depend-
encies, and Vice-Admiral of the same;
and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth
day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Removal of Supreme Court Sittings from Picton to
Blenheim.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of July, 1875.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR in COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860,"
it is enacted that there shall be held Circuit
Courts for the despatch of civil and criminal business
of the Court, before one of the Judges thereof, at
such places and times as the Governor in Council
may from time to time appoint:

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date
the first day of November, one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-one, Circuit Courts were appointed
to be held at Picton, within the Judicial District of
Nelson, on the second Monday in each of the months
of June and December, in each and every year:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Circuit
Courts should, for the future, be discontinued at
Picton and be held at Blenheim within the said judi-
cial district at the dates aforesaid:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said colony,
in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him by "The Supreme Court Act, 1860,"
doth hereby revoke the said in part recited Order in
Council so far and so far only as the same appoints
Circuit Courts of the Supreme Court to be held at
Picton in the Judicial District of Nelson, on the second
Monday in each of the months of June and December
in each and every year, and doth hereby appoint that
in lieu of the Circuit Courts so appointed to be held,
there shall be held in the said district, in the Pro-
vincial Council Chamber at Blenheim, on the second
Monday in each of the months of June and December
in each and every year, Circuit Courts for the des-
patch of civil and criminal business of the said Court
before the Judge thereof to whom the said district has
been assigned:

Provided always, that if and whenever any of the
days hereby appointed for holding a Circuit Court
shall happen to be a holiday of the Supreme Court,
then the Circuit Court appointed to be holden on
such day shall be holden on the first day thereafter
which shall not be such holiday.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Rules for District Courts under "Imprisonment for
Debt Abolition Act, 1874."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of July, 1875.

Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Imprisonment for Debt
Abolition Act, 1874," (hereafter referred to as

"the said Act,") it is enacted that in the said Act
the term "prescribed" means, as respects the Dis-
trict Courts, prescribed by general rules to be made
under "The District Courts Act Amendment Act,
1865," or any Acts amending the same; and it is
also by the said Act provided that general rules and
orders may, as respects such District Courts, be made
by the Governor for the purpose of carrying the said
Act into effect:

And whereas by "The District Courts Act Amend-
ment Act, 1865," it is provided that it shall be law-
ful for the Governor in Council, with the concurrence
of one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, to frame
general rules and orders for regulating the practice
of the said Courts and the form of proceedings
therein, and from time to time to rescind, suspend,
alter, or amend all rules, orders, and forms now
framed or hereafter to be framed, or any of them or
any part thereof, and such original or amended rules,
orders, and forms, or any rules rescinding the same
or any of them, shall be in force in any District
Court respectively from a day to be fixed by the said
Governor in Council:

And whereas by Order in Council bearing date the
fifth day of January last, certain rules, orders, and
forms were made and prescribed for District Courts
under the authority of the said Acts, and it is
expedient that the rules, orders, and forms hereinafter
mentioned should be made and prescribed in addition
to the rules, orders, and forms already in force:

And whereas the rules, orders, and forms in the
Schedule hereto have been concurred in by His Honor
James Prendergast, Esquire, one of the Judges of
the said Supreme Court:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authority conferred upon me by the said
hereinbefore recited provisions of the said Acts, and
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Colony, and with the concurrence
of the said James Prendergast, Esquire, as afore-
said, do hereby make the rules or orders and pre-
scribe the forms set forth in the Schedule hereto,
in addition to the rules, orders, and forms already in
force as aforesaid, and the same shall come into and
be in force from and after the first day of August
next.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

SCHEDULE.

1. "The Order of Commitment" (No. 8,) and "The
   Order of Commitment on an order or judgment of a
   Court other than a District Court," (No. 8A,) of the
   forms in the Schedule to the Order in Council of the
   fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
   seventy-five, making and prescribing rules for Dis-
   trict Courts under the said Act, shall be and the
   same are hereby repealed, and the forms hereunder
   set out, lettered respectively A and B, are hereby
   substituted in lieu of the said forms No. 8 and No.
   8A respectively.

2. The warrant to be issued by the Clerk upon
   default being made in payment of the money and costs
   mentioned in the order of committal under the 11th
   section of the said Act, shall be in the form set out
   hereunder, lettered "C," and such warrant shall, for
   the purposes of the said section, be deemed to be the
   "warrant in the prescribed form" required to be
   issued under the said section.