✨ Proclamation of Warden Appointment
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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 Fields of the Province of Otago Wardens’ Courts for the administration of Justice within the said Districts respectively: And whereas it is necessary that 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 Richardson, Superintendent aforesaid, do by this instrument, in pursuance and exercise of the power so delegated to me, appoint—
John Nugent Wood, Esquire,
to be Warden and Judge of the said Warden’s Court, with power to him to act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and in such manner and to exercise all or any of the powers in the Gold Fields Act, 1858, mentioned as the Governor shall think fit to direct, but declaring that such appointment shall be deemed to be provisional only until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor, and that the Governor shall have power to disallow the same.
Given under my hand at Dunedin, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province, the twenty-second day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
J. L. C. RICHARDSON.
Erratum.—For “verticle” in page 230, eighth line from bottom of second column, read “vertical.”
Printed for the Provincial Government by Daniel Campbell, Dunedin.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 217
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⚖️ Appointment of Warden and Judge for Wardens’ Courts in Otago
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement22 November 1862
Proclamation, Wardens’ Courts, Gold Fields Act, 1858, Otago Province
- John Nugent Wood (Esquire), Appointed Warden and Judge
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent of the Province of Otago