PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the
Province of Otago,

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled, "The Resident Magistrates’ Courts Extension of Jurisdiction Act, 1856," it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the request of the Superintendent of any Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to bring the said Act into operation in respect of any Resident Magistrate’s Court having jurisdiction within such Province, from and after a certain day to be named in such Proclamation, and to define the districts within which cases may be heard in such Court under the provisions of the said Act. And whereas by the said recited Act it is further enacted "that the Superintendent of the Province within which any such Resident Magistrate’s Court shall be situated, shall, by proclamation in the Government Gazette of such Province, fix the days upon which such Court shall sit to hear and determine causes under the provisions of the said Act."

And whereas by a Proclamation dated the third, and published in the New Zealand Government Gazette on the fifth, days of February, 1857, His Excellency the Governor did proclaim and declare that the said recited Act should come into operation in respect of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, from and after the first day of April, in the year 1857, and that the said Province of Otago shall be the district within which cases may be heard in such Court under the provisions of the said recited Act.

Now, therefore, I, the said Superintendent, in pursuance of the authority in me vested in that behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin aforesaid, will sit to hear and determine causes under the provisions of the said recited Act, on Wednesday the sixth day of May, 1857, and on the first Wednesday of each month thereafter, unless either of the said days shall fall upon a public holiday, or a Fast, or other day religiously kept, in which case the said Court will sit on the first day thereafter, not being a public holiday or a Fast, or day religiously kept. And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that I have fixed the said days as the days upon which the said Court shall sit to hear and determine causes under the provisions of the said recited Act.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Government House, Dunedin, this twenty-third day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled "An Ordinance to establish and regulate Ferries, Session I., No. 8;" it is amongst other things enacted that "It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to authorise Ferries to be established and erected at convenient places on the rivers, creeks, and lakes within the Province of Otago, for the conveyance of passengers, animals, and goods across the same;" and whereas by section 3 of the "Ferries Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856," passed by the said Superintendent and Council, it is enacted that "Every Ferry shall be deemed to be a Public Ferry within the meaning of this Ordinance, which shall be proclaimed to be such by the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by proclamation to be inserted in the Provincial Government Gazette;" and whereas it is expedient that the Ferry established on the Taieri River at or near the West Taieri River Section No. 38, and known by the name of the Upper Taieri Ferry, should be proclaimed a Public Ferry. Now therefore I, the said Superintendent, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, do hereby, in virtue of the powers vested in me by the said Ordinances, proclaim the said Ferry called the Upper Taieri Ferry to be a Public Ferry within the meaning of the before-recited Ordinance.