✨ Justice of the Peace Appointments
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39
Know ye that We have assigned you and each and every
of you, jointly and severally, to be our Justices of the Peace
in our Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, to keep
and cause to be kept all laws, ordinances, and statutes in
force within our said colony for the punishment of offenders,
the preservation of the peace, and for the quiet rule, welfare,
and good government of our people in our said colony; and
to have, exercise, and discharge all the powers, authorities,
and duties belonging or pertaining to the office of a Justice
of the Peace in our said colony.
And therefore We command you and each and every of
you that, to keep the peace, and all laws, ordinances, and
statutes, and all and singular other the premises, you dili-
gently apply yourselves, and that, at certain days and places
duly appointed or to be appointed for these purposes, into
the premises to make inquiry, and all and singular the pre-
mises hear and determine, and perform and fulfil them, doing
therein what to justice appertains, according to the law and
custom of England and of our said colony.
And We command all our Sheriffs in our said colony, at
certain days and places appointed or to be appointed, to be
aiding by all lawful means in the performance and due exe-
cution of the premises.
In testimony whereof We have caused these our Letters
to be made Patent, and the Seal of our said Colony to be
hereunto affixed.
Witness our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved
Cousin David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George; Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies; at Auckland, in
the said Colony, this twenty-seventh day of May,
in the fifty-ninth year of our reign, and in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six.
GLASGOW, Governor.
Issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this twenty-
seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
T. THOMPSON.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
By Authority JAMES BURNS, Government Printer for the time
being, Wellington.
NZ Gazette 1896, No 39
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Justice of the Peace Appointments
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⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement27 May 1896
Appointments, Justice of the Peace, Colony of New Zealand
- David, Earl of Glasgow, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- T. Thompson
- James Burns, Government Printer