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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 now or hereafter to be constituted, under or by virtue of "Gold-fields Act, 1858.""

WHEREAS by Proclamation given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province, the thirteenth day of October, 1862, 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 so delegated, I should appoint Wardens or Judges of the Wardens' Courts of such districts now or hereafter to be constituted:

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—

EDWARD CROKER, Esquire
CHARLES WORTHINGTON, Esquire
JACKSON KENDELL, Esquire
JOHN NUGENT WOOD, Esquire
and
THOMAS BASTON ARCHBALD, Esquire

to be Wardens and Judges of all such Wardens' Courts now or hereafter to be constituted, with power to them and each of them 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 appointments 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 (L.S.) second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

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

PROCLAMATION

Constituting a Warden's Court within the District of Mount Benger Gold-field.

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

WHEREAS by Proclamation given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province the thirteenth day of October last, 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 said Province Wardens' Courts, for the administration of Justice within the said Districts respectively: And whereas it is expedient and necessary that a Warden's Court should also be constituted for the District hereinafter mentioned:

Now therefore I, the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Superintendent aforesaid, in pursuance and exercise of the powers so delegated, do hereby constitute for the District after-mentioned of the Gold-fields of the said Province a Wardens' Court, for the administration of justice within the same, but declaring that the said Court is 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

MOUNT BENGER.

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the (L.S.) Province of Otago, the second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

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