✨ Proclamation regarding Resident Magistrate's Court
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
CHARLES BROWN, Superintendent.
VOL. IV. NEW PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1856. [NO. 17.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor Charles Brown, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth.
WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the Fourth Session of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled, "The Resident Magistrates Court Extension of Jurisdiction Act, 1856" it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor upon the request of the Superintendent of any Province by Proclamation in the Government Gazette to bring the said Act into operation in respect of any Resident Magistrates Court having jurisdiction within such Province, from and after a certain day to be named in such proclamation, and to define the Districts within which cases may be heard in such Court under the provisions of the said Act. And whereas by the said recited Act it is further enacted "That the Superintendent of the Province within which any such Resident Magistrates Court shall be situated, shall by proclamation in the Government Gazette of such Province fix the days upon which such Courts shall sit to hear and determine causes under the provisions of the said Act."
And Whereas by a Proclamation dated the 7th day of November, 1856, and published in the New Zealand Government Gazette on the 11th day of the same month, His Excellency the Governor did proclaim and declare that the said recited Act should come into operation in respect of the Resident Magistrates Court of New Plymouth, in the Province of New Plymouth, from and after the 12th day of December instant, and that the Province of New Plymouth shall be the District within which cases may be heard in such Court under the provisions of the said recited Act.
Now therefore in pursuance of the authority in me vested in that behalf, I the Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth do hereby proclaim and declare that the Resident Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth will sit to hear and determine causes under the provisions of the said recited Act on the 18th day of December instant, and after that day on the first and third Thursday of every month, unless either of the said days shall fall upon a public holiday, in which case the said Court will sit on the day preceding. And I do hereby further proclaim and declare that I have fixed the said days as the days upon which such Court shall sit to hear and determine causes under the provisions of the said recited Act.
Given under my hand at New Plymouth this eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.
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⚖️ Proclamation fixing sitting days for the Resident Magistrate's Court in New Plymouth
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Resident Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, Court sittings, Jurisdiction, Legal proceedings
- Charles Brown, Superintendent