NEW COMMISSION OF THE PEACE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 728, 6 April 1853, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEW COMMISSION OF THE PEACE.

!New-Zealander Office, Wednesday afternoon, April 6, 1853. aving obtained a copy of the Comission appointing Justices of the jace for the whole territory of New jaland, and for the several Proaces respectively, as published in e Wellington Government Gazette the 17th March, we issue it in is form,: in order to place at once the hands of our readers a docujnt which may interest many of em. We further point attention to the very unexpected fact that the Marriage Amendment Ordinance —to ob - tain which so much united effort [ was made here—has been disallowed at home. Civil Secretary's Office. Wellington, Bth March, 1853. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the following Commission appointing Justices of the Peace for the Islands of New Zea'and and for the Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, be published for general information. By His Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. VICTORIA, l»y the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our trusty and loving subjects whose names are hereunto annexed, Greeting: Know ye, that we have assigned you, and each and every of you, jointly and severally, to be our Justices to keep our Peace in our Islands of New Zealand, or in the respective Provinces thereof as hereinafter particularly let forth, and to keep and cause to be kept all ordinancesand statutes forthe preservation of the Peace and-for the quiet rule and government of ourpeople, made in all and singular their articles in our said Islands or Provinces thereof and their dependencies, according to the form and effect of the same, and to punish all persons offending against the said ordinances and statutes, or any of them in the said Islands or Provinces thereof and their dependencies j and to cause to come before you or any one or more of you, all those within the said Islands or Provinces thereof, who to any one or more of our people, concerning heir •bodies, or the firing of their houses, shall 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 inch security, then them in our prisons, until they shall find such security, to cause to be safely kept. We have also assigned you, or either of you, with any one or more of such Justices as are hereby, or shall hereafter be duly commissioned by us in that behalf to enquire the truth more fully by all lawful means by which the truth of the matter shall be better know of all and all manner of felonies, poisonings, trespasses, or extortions whatsoever, and all and singular other crimes and offences of which the Justices of our Peace may or ought lawfully to enquire, by whomsoever and after what manner soever in the said Islands or Provinces thereof done or perpetrated, or which shall happen to be done or attempted. And also, of all those who in the aforesaid Islands or Provinces in companies against our Peace in disturbance of our people, with armed force, have gone or rode, or who hereafter shall presume to go or ride j and also, of those who Lve there lain in wait, or hereafter shall presume to lie in wait, to maim or cut, or kill our people. And also, of all victuallers, and all and singular other persons, who in the abuse of weights or measures, or in selling victuals, against the form of the ordinances and statutes, o?any of them made for the common benefit of our said Islands or Provinces thereof, and our people thereof, have offended, or attempted, or hereafter shall presume in the said Islands of Provinces to offend or attempt. And also, all sheriffs, constables, or keepers of gaols, or other officers, who in the execution of their

offices about the premises, or any of them, have unduly behaved themselves, or hereafter shall presume to behave themselves unduly, or have beenorshall happen hereafter to be careless, remiss, or negligent in our aforesaid Islands or Provinces. And of all and singular articles and circumstances, and all other things whatsoever that concern the premises, or any of them, by whomsoever, and after what manner soeter, in our aforesaid Islands or Provinces done or perpetrated, or which hereafter shall happen to be done or attempted in what manner soever. And to inspect all Indictments whatsoever so before you, or any of you, with such i Justice or Justices as aforesaid, taken or to be taken, or before others late our Justices of the Peace in the aforesaid Islands or Provinces made or taken, and not yet determined ; and to make and continue processes thereupon against all and singular the persons so indicted, or who before you hereafter shall happen to be so indicted, until they can be taken, surrender themselves, or be outlawed. Provided always, that if a case of difficulty upon the determination of any of the premises before you, or any one or more of you shall happen to arise, then let judgment in no wise be given thereon before you, or any of you, unless in the presence of one of our Justices of the Supreme Comt of the said Islands-or Provinces. And therefore, We command you, and each of you, and every one of you, that to keep the Peace, or ordinances and statu'es, 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, ye make enquiries, and all and singular the premises hear, and determine and perform and fulfil them in the aforesaid form, doing therein what to justice appertains, according to the law and custom of England, saving to us the amerciaments and other things to us therefrom belongin"-. And we command our Sheriffs of the said Islands or Provinces, at certain days and places duly appointed, or to be appointed, as aforesaid, 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 Great Seal of our said Islands of New Zealand, to be hereunto affixed. ' Witness our trusty and well beloved Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the Most Honorab e Order of the Hath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of (l. s.) New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of Wellington, this Seventh day of March, in the Sixteenth year of our Reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree. G. GREY, Governor. By His Excellency's Command, Alfred Domett. Civil Secretary. Gon Save the Queen ! LIST OF MAGISTRATES FOR THE ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. Robert Henry Wynyard, Esq., LieutenantColonel 58th Regiment Daniel Bolton, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers. William Anson McCleverty, Esq., LieutenantColonel on the Staff. Alfred Domett, Esq. Matthew Richmond, Esq. Andrew Sinclair, Esq. William Swainson, Esq. Daniel Wakefield, Esq. Alexander Shepherd, Esq. Henry William Petre, commonly called The Honorable Henry William Petre Charles Emilius Gold, Esq., Lieutenant-Colo-nel 65th Regiment Francis Dillon Bell, Esq. Constantine Augustus Dillon, commonly called The Honorable Constantine Augustus Dillon Stephen Carkeek, Esq. William Mein Smith, Esq. George Cutfield, Esq. William Cldfield Cautley, Esq. William Gisborne, Esq. William Halse, Esq. Walter Mantell, Esq. James Campbell, Esq. Donald McLean, Esq, William Young, Esq. Thomas Beckham, Esq.

| Henry St. Hill, Esq. I John Jermyn Symonds, Esq. William Bertram White, Esq. James Reddy Clendon, Esq. Percival Berrey, Esq. David Stark Durie, Esq. Charles Henry Montresor Smith, Esq. Alfred Rowland Chetham Strode, Esq. John Watson, Esq. Josiah Flight, Esq. George Sisson Cooper, Esq. Charles Simeon, Esq. Thomas Outhwaite, Esq. Robert Rodger Strang, Esq. FOR THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND. Charles Wybrow Ligar, Esq. Edward Mayne, Esq, Henry Matson, Esq. John Gray, Esq. George Ponsonby Hume, Esq. William Henry Kenny, Esq.,, Major Commanding New Zealand Fencibles Alexander Macdonald, Esq., Captain New Zealand Fencibles Henry Walsh Mahon, Esq. William Eppes Cormack, Esq. William Smellie Grahame, Esq. Robert Clapham Barstow, Esq. William llulme.Esq. Sampson Kempthorne, Esq. James Coates, Esq. Williim Brown, Esq. Frederick Ward Merriman, Esq. William Donnelly, Esq. Alexander Kennedy, Esq. James Busby, Esq. Gilbert Mair, Esq. Gejrge Clarke, Esq. Henry Charles Lawlor, Esq. Samuel Allen Bell, Esq. Theodore M. Haultain, Esq , Captain New Zealand Fencibles David Rough, Esq. John Annesly Hickson, Esq, Lieutenant New Zealand Fencibles Thomas J. Travers, Esq., Captain Royal Artillery John Woodhouse, Esq. John Anderson Gilfillan, Esq. William Connell, Esq. Joseph Greenwood, Esq., Major of Brigade, Captain 31st Foot. Charles Heaphy, Esq FOR THE PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH. Henry King, Esq. John Tylston Wicksteed, Esq. James Webster, Esq. Peter Wilson, Esq. John Yeeden Lloyd, Esq. Samuel Stephen King, Esq. William Leech, Esq. FOR THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. James Paiience, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel 65th Regiment George Freeman Murray, Esq , Major, 65th Regiment Charles Clifford, Esq. Edward Daniel 1, Esq. Richard Baker, Esq. William Swainson, Esq. William Hickson. Esq. William Fitzherbert, Esq. Alfred Ludlam, Esq. Henry Tacy Kemp, Esq. Abraham Hort, Esq. John Crone Raymond, Esq. John Johnston, Esq. William McLeod Bannatyne, Esq. George Hunter, Esq. George Moore, Esq. Sir Godfrey John Thomas, Baronet Thomas Kebble, Esq. Francis Robinson, Esq. Samuel King, Esq. Moses Campbell, Esq. George Rees, Esq. John Fitzgerald, Esq. James Kelham, Esq. William Barnard Rhodes, Esq. Henry Charton, Esq. John Edward Pattenson, Esq., Alexander Alexander, Esq. Edward Spencer Curling, Esq. FOR THE PROVINCE OF NELSON. Donald Sinclair, Esq. John Danforth Greenwood, Esq. Francis Otterson, Esq. Hugh Martin, Esq. James Mackay, Esq. David Sclanders, Esq. George Duppa, Esq. i

George White, Esq.. David Monro, Esq. Edward William Stafford, E«q. Francis Jollie, Esq. Charles Bigg Wither, Esq. Charles Thorp, Esq. John Nixon, Esq. John Waring Saxton, Esq. Samuel Stephens, Esq. Richard Kindersley Newcome, Esq. Henry Seymour, Esq. Frederick Aloyseus Weld, Esq. Henry Bedborough, Esq. Nathaniel George Morse, Esq. Sir William Congreve, Baronet William Collins, Esq. Ralph Richardson, Esq. Francis Horniblow Blutidell, Esq. Benjamin Walmsley, Esq. FOR THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY. Edward Maurice O'Connell, Esq. Henry Godfrey Gouland, Esq. Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Esq. Henry John Tancred, Esq. William Guise Brittan, Esq, Edward Robert Ward, Esq. John Charles Watts Russell, Esq. Henry Phillips, Esq. Robert Heaton Rhodes, Esq. James Edward Fitzgerald, Esq. Charles Bowen, Esq. William Bayley Bray, Esq. Isaac Thomas Cookson, Esq. Edwatd Brown Fition, Esq. Conway Lucas Rose, Esq Mark Pringle Stoddart, E*q. Richard Westenra, Esq , Belfield Woolcombe, Esq Wtlliam John Warburton Hamilton K«q. Charles Barrington Robinson, Esq. Charles Hunter Brown, Esq. FOR THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO. William Cargill, Esq. Charles Henry Kettle, Esq. David Garrick, Esq. Edward Lee, Esq. Alexander Todd, Esq. Henry Oatts. Esq. Robert Williams, Esq. William Purdie, Esq. James Macandrew, Esq. William H. Reynolds, Esq. Henry Jeffreys, Esq. Francis Scott Pillans, Esq. Hugh Robinson, Esq. George Lloyd, Esq. Henry Charles Hertslet, Esq. William Johnson, Esq. Jumes Fulton, Esq.