✨ Government Proclamations and Appointments
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
VOL. XI. FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1863. [No. 34]
General Government Notices.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th July, 1863.
THE following Notices are reprinted from the New Zealand Gazette for general information:
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.
A PROCLAMATION.
Extending the Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Wairarapa.
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.
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 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.
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 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 fifty pounds in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Wairarapa in the Province of Wellington; and I do further proclaim and declare that this proclamation shall take effect on and from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the seal of the Colony this fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Justices of the Peace appointed.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 6th July, 1863.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
JAMES KELHAM, Esq., of Wellington,
to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.
ALFRED DOMETT.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1863, No 34
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🏛️ Reprinting of Notices from New Zealand Gazette
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration29 July 1863
Reprint, General Government Notices, Wellington
- J. Woodward, Acting Provincial Secretary
⚖️ Extension of Jurisdiction for Wairarapa Resident Magistrate’s Court
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement4 July 1863
Jurisdiction, Resident Magistrate’s Court, Wairarapa, Legal Limits
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Alfred Domett
⚖️ Appointment of Justice of the Peace
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement6 July 1863
Appointment, Justice of the Peace, Wellington
- James Kelham (Esquire), Appointed Justice of the Peace
- Alfred Domett