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OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1859. [No. 85.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS, by Proclamation dated the 22nd day of December 1858, and inserted in the “Provincial Government Gazette,” of 8th January 1859, part of the Building intended for a Public Gaol, erected on the East Reserve, west of Dee Street, in the Town of Invercargill in the Province of Otago, was proclaimed a Public Gaol of the Province: And whereas it is deemed expedient to alter the arrangement and to constitute and proclaim a different portion of the said Building to be a Public Gaol;
Now, THEREFORE I, the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that on and after the 1st day of June 1859 the portion of the Building aforesaid, which is entered to by the outer door of the Building, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol of the Colony of New Zealand: and that the other portion of the said Building, which is entered to by an inner door thereof, is, until further proclamation, reserved to be used as a Lock-up House.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Government House, Dunedin, this tenth day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine.
W. CARGILL,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
WHEREAS by the “District Courts Act 1858,” it is provided that there shall be within the Colony Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts; and the Governor is empowered from time to time by notification in the New Zealand Gazette to fix the time and places within the District at which every such Court shall be held:
Now THEREFORE I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony, do hereby, in pursuance and execution of the said power and authority, fix that Sessions of the District Court of Otago shall be held at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, on the first Tuesday in every month respectively, excepting the months of January and July in every year; and that Sessions of the said Court shall be held at Invercargill, in the said Province, on the first Tuesday in the months of January and July respectively in every year.
As witness my hand, this twenty-fifth day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine.
T. GORE BROWNE.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 85
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⚖️ Proclamation altering Public Gaol arrangement
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement10 May 1859
Proclamation, Public Gaol, Invercargill, Building alteration, Lock-up House
- William Cargill, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
⚖️ District Court Sessions for Otago
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement25 April 1859
District Court, Sessions, Dunedin, Invercargill, Court schedule
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony