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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 thirteenth 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 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

• RICHMOND BEETHAM, Esquire,
• and HENRY WIRGMAN ROBINSON, 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 (L.S.) of the said Province, the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th March, 1863.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed

DOUGLAS JOHNSTON URQUHART, Esq.,
to be a Receiver of all Fees for Miners’ Rights, for Business and other Licenses, and all Fines, Fees, and other Revenue whatsoever arising out of and accruing from the Dunstan Gold Field, and any future extension thereof. And also to take charge of and safely keep in the chest or safe to be provided for that purpose all such bags and parcels of Gold as any of the Miners or other persons at the said Gold Field may require to be sent to Dunedin, and deliver the same to the Commander of the Escort appointed for the conveyance thereof to Dunedin.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th March, 1863.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed

DOUGLAS JOHNSTON URQUHART, Esq.,
to be a Mining Registrar for the Dunstan Gold Field.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 16th March, 1863.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that he has appointed

LOWTHER BROAD, Esq.,
to be a Receiver of all Fees for Miners’ Rights, for Business and other Licenses, and all Fines, Fees, and other Revenue whatsoever arising out of and accruing from the Mount Benger Gold Field, and any future extension thereof. And also to take charge of and safely keep in the chest or safe to be provided for that purpose all such bags and parcels of Gold as any of the Miners or other persons at the said Gold Field may require to be sent to Dunedin, and deliver the same to the Commander of the Escort appointed for the conveyance thereof to Dunedin.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.