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and the 'Hawke's Bay Naval and Military Settlers' Act, 1861,' so far as they affect the Provinces of Wellington and Hawke's Bay,

were presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty's assent, and the said Bills were reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon:

Now therefore I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do, by this Proclamation, signify and proclaim to all whom it may concern, that the said Bills have been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under my hand at Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.

G. GREY.

A PROCLAMATION,

Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrates' Court at Queenstown, and at Clyde, in the Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Resident Magistrates' Jurisdiction Extension Act, 1862," it is enacted that every case of a claim for debt or damages, such as might, at the passing of the said Act, be lawfully tried in a Resident Magistrate's Court, where the debt or damages claimed do not exceed the sum of Twenty Pounds, may be tried in any Resident Magistrate's Court with respect to which this Act shall be in operation, when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed Fifty Pounds: And it is provided that the Governor may, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Colony, declare that the limit of jurisdiction of any such Court, shall be extended to One Hundred Pounds, and such limit of jurisdiction shall be, in such cases, extended accordingly: Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said recited Act and of an Order in Council, dated the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, authorising the issue of Proclamations under the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the provisions of the said recited Act, and especially the powers conferred by sections two and three thereof, shall be exercised to the limit of jurisdiction of One Hundred Pounds, in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Queenstown, and at Clyde, in the Province of Otago; and I do further proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and from the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony, this twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 17th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint--

David Lewis, Esq., Wellington
Edward Miller, Esq.,
Edward Pearce, Esq.,
Alexander Mackay, Esq., Nelson
CHARLES COCKBURN SCHAW, Esq.,
Waikatipu, Otago
James Dowling Rogers, Esq., Hind, Canterbury
Charles Hawkin Greenstreet, Esq., Ashburton, Canterbury
Michael Scott Campbell, Esq., Ashburton, Canterbury
John Rochfort, Esq., West Coast, Canterbury
John William Williams, Esq., Waimate, Auckland, and
Marsden Clark, Esq., Waimate, Auckland

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

FREDERICK WHITAKER.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 19th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Wilson Gray, Esquire, J.P., of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, to be a Resident Magistrate.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Appointment of Crown Solicitors.

Attorney-General's Office,
Auckland, 25th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Frederick Ward Merriman, Esq., of Auckland, in the Province of Auckland,
Arthur Standish, Esq., of New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki,
John Nathaniel Wilson, Esq., of Napier, in the Province of Hawke's Bay,
Charles Beard Izard, Esq., of Wellington, in the Province of Wellington,
Hugh Ross, Esq., of Wanganui, in the Province of Wellington,
Henry Adams, Esq., of Nelson, in the Province of Nelson,
Thomas Smith Duncan, Esq., of Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury,
JAMES HOWORTH, Esq., of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, and
Thomas Morell Macdonald, Esq., of Invercargill, in the Province of Southland,

to be Crown Solicitors within the said Provinces respectively, for the conduct of Prosecutions under the Regulations of the 23rd day of February, 1864.

FRED. WHITAKER.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 30th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

James Elder Brown, Esquire,
to be Deputy to the Returning Officer for the Provincial Elections for the District of Tokomairiro.

WILLIAM FOX.

Treasury, Auckland,
17th August, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Mr. Edmund Smith,
to be Manager of the Savings' Bank at Dunedin.

THOMAS RUSSELL,
(In the absence of the Colonial Treasurer.)