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tended sluicing claim, not exceeding double the area of an ordinary claim, provided that such claim shall be duly registered.

Given under my hand, this tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

PROCLAMATION
CONSTITUTING WARDENS’ COURTS WITHIN THE GOLD FIELDS.

By his Honor JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the Fiftieth Section of the “Gold Fields Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall 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 shall think fit to direct. And by the forty-first Section of the same Act it is further enacted that it shall 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 may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, except the powers conferred by Sections seven, eight, twenty-seven, and forty thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit. And whereas by Order in Council given under the hand of the Governor and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand the eighth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, the Governor, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, delegated to me, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, so long as I shall continue Superintendent of such Province, the powers contained in the said fifteenth section of the said recited Act, subject to the regulations in the said Order in Council written and inter alia that all acts and appointments done and made by me under the foregoing delegation shall be provisional until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor. And whereas it is expedient and necessary that Wardens’ Courts should be constituted for the Districts hereinafter mentioned respectively;

Now I, the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the powers delegated to me as aforesaid, do hereby constitute for the respective parts or Districts aftermentioned of the Gold Field of the Province of Otago, WARDENS’ COURTS for the administration of justice within the said Districts respectively, but declaring that the said Courts are constituted provisionally until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor, and that the Governor shall have power to disallow the same—that is to say:

For the District known as GABRIEL’S DISTRICT;

For the District known as WAITAHUNA DISTRICT, including Waipori and the Woolshed;

For the District known as the DUNSTAN DISTRICT; and

For the District known as the NOKOMAI DISTRICT.

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, the thirteenth (L.S.) day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON.

PROCLAMATION,
By His Honor JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

OF THE APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES OF THE WARDENS’ COURTS, IN THE SAID PROVINCE, UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF “GOLD FIELDS ACT, 1858.”

WHEREAS by Proclamation, given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, the 13th day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, on the recital and in pursuance and exercise of the powers delegated to me by the Governor of New Zealand therein set forth, constituted provisionally for certain parts or Districts therein mentioned of the Gold Field of the Province of Otago WARDENS’ COURTS for the administration of Justice within the said Districts respectively; And whereas it is necessary in further pursuance and exercise of the powers delegated to me as aforesaid, I should appoint Wardens or Judges of the Wardens’ Courts of such Districts; Now, therefore, I, John Larkins Cheese Richard-