PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the “District Courts Act, 1858,” it is enacted that there shall be within the Colony of New Zealand, Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called District Courts, and the Governor is empowered from time to time, as he shall think fit, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, Districts within which such Courts shall be respectively held, and such Districts to abolish, and the boundaries thereof to define or alter, and also to declare by what local name each such Court shall be designated.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance and execution of the aforesaid authority do hereby proclaim and constitute the Province of Taranaki to be a District within which a District Court shall be held under the said Act.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the authority aforesaid, I do hereby declare that the aforesaid Court shall be designated by the name of “The District Court of Taranaki.”

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony, at Auckland, in the Colony aforesaid, this 18th day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

Thomas Gore Browne,
By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

God Save The Queen!

Know Ye, that we have assigned you, and each and every of you, jointly and severally to be Our Justices of the Peace in the Province of Taranaki, in Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, to keep and cause to be kept all Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes in force within the said Province, for the punishing of offenders, the preservation of the peace, and for the quiet rule, welfare, and good government of Our people in Our said Colony; and to have, exercise, and discharge all the powers, authorities, and duties belonging or pertaining to the office of a Justice of the Peace in the said Province.

And therefore, We command you and each and every of you that to keep the Peace and all Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes, and all and singular other the Premises, you diligently apply yourselves, and that, at certain days and places duly appointed or to be appointed for these purposes, into the Premises to make enquiry, and all and singular the Premises hear and determine and perform and fulfil them, doing therein what to justice appertains according to the Law and Custom of England and of the said Province.

And we command all Our Sheriffs in the said Province, at certain days and places, appointed, to be aiding by all lawful means in the performance and due execution of the Premises.

In testimony whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the seal of Our Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness Our Trusty and Well Beloved, Thomas Gore Browne, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at Government House, at Auckland, in New Zealand aforesaid, this 22nd day of January in the 22nd year of Our reign, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

Thomas Gore Browne,
By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

God Save The Queen!

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith and so forth. To our trusty and loving subjects:

Blackett John, Mangorei
Brown Charles, Rata Nui
Burton George Ratt, Omata
Crompton William Morgan, Omata
Curtis George, Omata
King Henry, Brooklands
King Samuel Poplam, New Plymouth
King William Catfield, Woodleigh
King Thomas, New Plymouth
Leech William, New Plymouth
Lloyd Major John Yeeden, New Plymouth
Norris Frederic William Nory, New Plymouth
Parris Robert, New Plymouth
Richardson Thomas Watkin, Glen Avon
Richmond Henry Robert, Hurworth
Smith John Stephenson, Oka Wara
Wilson Peter, Henui

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To our trusty and loving subjects:

Aubrey Harcourt R., R.M., Wangarei
Barstow Robert Clapham, R.M., Russell
Bartley Honorable Thomas Houghton, Auckland