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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 744, 1 June 1853, Page 4

oo\> txxi mcut ♦ Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, May i'S, 1853. IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the following Commission, appointing Justices of the Peace for the Province of Auckland, and the list of names thereunto annexed, be published for general information. By His Excellency’s command, 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 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 Provineeof Auckland,andtokeepandcausetobekept all ordinances and statutes for the preservation of the Peace, and for the quiet rule and government of our people, made in all and singular their articles in our said Province, 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 Province, and to cause to come before you, or any one or more of you, all those within our said Province, who to one or more of our people, concerning thtrir 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 such 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 known of all and all manner of felonies, poisonings, trespasses, or extortions whatsoever, and of 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 die said Province done or perpetrated, or which shall happen to be done or attempted. And also, of all those who in the aforesaid Province in companies against our Peace, in disturbance of our people, with armed force, have gone or rode, or hereafter shall presume to go or ride ; and also, of nil those who have 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, mid 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, or any of them therefore made for the common benefit of our said Province, and our people thereof, have offended, or attempted, or hereafter shall presume in the said Province to offend or attempt. And also, all sheriffs, constables, or keepers of gaols*, and other officers, who in the execution of their offices about tlie premises, or any of them, have unduly behaved themselves, or hereafter shall presume to behave themselves unduly, or have been or shall happen hereafter to be careless, remiss, or negligent in our aforesaid Province. 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 soever, in our aforesaid Province 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 Justice or Justices as aforesaid, taken or to be taken, or before others late our Justices of the Peace in the aforesaid Province made or taken, and not jyet 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 deterimaati«n 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 Court cf the said Province. And therefore, We command you, and each of you, and every of you, that to keep the Peace, or 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, 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 tilings to us therefrom belonging. And we command our Sheriffs of the said Province, 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 Public Seal of the General Government of the Islands of New Zealand, to be hereunto affixed. Witness our trusty and well beloved Sir George Grey, our Goveruorand Com-rnander-in-Chiefin andoverthe Islands (i/ s.) of New Zealand, at Auckland, in the Province off Auckland, this 23rd day of May, in the Sixteenth year of our Reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree, G. GREY, Governor. By Command of His Excellency, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary. LIST OF MAGISTRATES. Charles Wybrow Ligar, Ksq. Edward Mayne, Esq. Henry Matson, Esq, John Gray, Ksq. George Ponsonby Hume, Esq. WTU.wn Henry Kenny, Esq. Alexander Macdonald, Esq. lln :" wAh Mahon, Esq. Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.