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OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JOHN L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
Vol. IV.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1862. [No. 168.
(From the New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 2, 1862.)
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 3rd Jan., 1862.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
John Paton
to be a Pilot at the Port of Otago.
Henry Sewell,
In the absence of Mr. Fox.
(From the New Zealand Gazette, Jan. 8, 1862.)
ORDER IN COUNCIL
Delegating to Superintendent of Otago certain Powers under “Gold Fields Act.”
By His Excellency SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c., with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony.
WHEREAS by the Fifteenth Section of the Gold Fields Act, 1858,* it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor by Order in Council, from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens’ Courts for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with power to act alone, or with Assessors or
Juries, and in such manner and to exercise all or any of the powers in the said Act mentioned, as the Governor should think fit to direct. And by the Forty-first Section of the same Act it was further enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor should deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, except as in the said Act is excepted, but not excepting the powers vested in him by the said Fifteenth section, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he might think fit: And by the Twenty-seventh section of the same Act it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, alter, and revoke Rules regulating the Procedure and Practice in the Courts to be established under the said Act, and in cases of appeal therefrom, and also to fix the fees to be taken in respect of proceedings therein;
Now His Excellency the Governor doth by this Instrument under his hand and under the Public Seal of the Colony, and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, delegate to John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, so long as he shall continue Superintendent of such Province, but no longer, the powers contained in the said Fifteenth section of the said recited Act, subject to the Regulations first hereunder written.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 168
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🚂 Appointment of Pilot at Port of Otago
🚂 Transport & Communications3 January 1862
Appointment, Pilot, Port of Otago, Auckland
- John Paton, Appointed Pilot at Port of Otago
- Henry Sewell, In the absence of Mr. Fox
🏛️ Order in Council Delegating Powers under Gold Fields Act
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationOrder in Council, Gold Fields Act, Delegation of Powers, Superintendent of Otago
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson (Esquire), Delegated powers under Gold Fields Act
- Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief