by whom the truth of the matter in the premises shall be the better known and enquired into.

In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our said Colony to be hereunto affixed.

Witness our trusty and well-beloved Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand at Government House, at Auckland, this twentieth day of December, in the twentieth year of our reign, and the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Thomas Gore Browne,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,
E. W. Stafford.

God Save the Queen.

Province of Wellington.

Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our trusty and loving subjects.

Charles Johnston Pharazyn, Esq.
John Tylston Wicksteed, Esq.
William Waring Taylor, Esq.
Peter Morrison Hervey, Esq.
Robert Park, Esq.
Septimus Lancelot Worley, Esq.
Charles Dudley Robert Ward, Esq.
Charles William Schultze, Esq.
Henry Joseph Coote, Esq.
William Fox, Esq.
Charles Champaigne Des Vaux, Esq.
Henry Shafto Harrison, Esq.
James Wilson, Esq.
Benjamin William Rawson Trafford, Esq.
Richard Barton, Esq.
John Grace, Esq.
Donald Gollan, Esq.
John Chilton Lambton Carter, Esq.
John Curling, Esq.
Henry Russell, Esq.
James Anderson, Esq.
John Valentine Smith, Esq.
Alfred George Newman, Esq.
Walter Ogilvie, Esq.

Greeting:

Know Ye that we have assigned you jointly and severally, and every of you, our Justices to keep our Peace in the Province of Wellington in our Colony of New Zealand, and to keep and cause to be kept all ordinances and statutes for the good of the Peace, and for the preservation of the same and for the quiet rule and Government of our people, made, in all and singular their articles, in the said Province according to the force from and effect of the same; and to chastise and punish all persons that offend against the form of those ordinances or statutes, or any one of them, in the aforesaid Province as it ought to be done according to the form of those ordinances and statutes and to cause to come before you, or any of you, all those who to any one or more of our people, concerning their bodies, or the firing of their houses, have used threats, to find sufficient security for the Peace, or their good behaviour towards us and our people; and if they shall refuse to find such security, then them in our prisons, until they shall find such security, to cause to be safely kept. We have also assigned you, and every two or more of you our Justices to enquire the truth more fully by the oath of good and lawful men of the aforesaid Province by whom the truth of the matter shall be better known of all and all manner of felonies, misdemeanors, and trespasses whatsoever, and of all and singular other crimes and offences of which the Justices of our Peace may or ought lawfully to...

Edward Daniell, Esq.
William Hickson, Esq.
William Fitzherbert, Esq.
Alfred Ludlam, Esq.
Abraham Hort, Esq.
John Johnston, Esq.
William McLeod Bannatyne, Esq.
George Hunter, Esq.
George Moore, Esq.
Thomas Kebble, Esq.
Francis Robinson, Esq.
Samuel King, Esq.
Moses Campbell, Esq.
George Rees, Esq.
James Kelham, Esq.
William Bernard Rhodes, Esq.
Henry Churton, Esq.
Alexander Alexander, Esq.
Edward Spencer Curling, Esq.
John Nixon, Esq.
John Cameron, Esq.
A. de Bathe Brandon, Esq.
William Lyon, Esq.
Nathaniel Levin, Esq.
Samuel Revans, Esq.