PROCLAMATION.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 62, 23 March 1842, Page 4

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON, Esquire, Captain in her Majesty's Royal Navy, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies WHEREAS by a certain Ordinance of the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, passed in the sth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, intituled, “An Ordinance “ for establishing County Courts of Civil and “Criminal Jurisdiction, and for repealing an “ Ordinance for instituting Courts of Request, “ Session I, No. 6, and for repealing part of an “ Ordinance for establishing Courts of Quarter “Sessions, Session I, No. 4,” it is enacted, that from and after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, there should be holden within the Colony of New Zealand County Courts of Record, possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, in manner thereinafter provided. And whereas it is further enacted by the said in part recited Ordinance, that His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, should from time to time appoint a place or places within each County or District, as the case may be, whereat such Courts should be holden. And whereas it is further enacted by the said inpart recited Ordinance, that in every County or District a Court should be holden, monthly, on the third Tuesday of every month ; NOW, theretore, I, the Governor, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby with the advice of the Executive council, direct and appoint that, for the purposes ol the said Or-

dinance, the said Colony be divided into two Districts, to be called the Northern and Southern Districts ; and that the Northern Dirtrict be that part of the Colony situate to the North of the Parallel of Latitude thirty-eight degrees thirty minutes South, and that the Southern District be that part of the said Colony situate to the South of the aforesaid Parallel of Latitude. And I do further direct and appoint that the said County Courts of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction as aforesaid, shall be holden during the present and in each year, at the places hereinafter respectively mentioned; that is to say —in the Northern District, at Auckland and Kororarika ; and in the Southern District at Wellington. And I do further, with the advice of the Executive Council, as aforesaid, direct and appoint, that the first sitting of the said County Courts shall be held in the aforesaid Districts on the third Tuesday of the month of April next ensuing. Given under my Hand and Seal at Government House, Auckland, this eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight “hundred and forty-two. WILLIAM HOBSON, Governor. By His Excellency’s Command, Willoughby Shortland, Colonial Secretary. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.