Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857), Friday 19 February 1847, page 4
GOVERNMENT NOTICE.
Colonial Secretary's Office, February 11, 1847.
The Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Commission of the Peace, which has been issued for the island of Van Diemen's Land and its dependencies.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. E. BICHENO.
Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, and so forth,
To
Thomas Archer John Helder Wedge James Cox Robert Wettenhall Peter Archer Mulgrave William Wood
Thomas Anstey James Arndell Youl
Benjamin Horne James R. Kenworthy Joseph Hone William G. Sams
John Ogle Gage John Peyton Jones James C. Sutherland George B. Forster
Robert Harrison Thomas J. Lempriere Wm. Henry Glover George J. Lenon William G. Waller James Thomson
William Clark O. D. Ainsworth, Esqs. John Burnett Samuel Martin (Clerk) Malcolm L. Smith Alfred Garratt
William Sorell Edward Carr Shaw William Barnes Frederick Synnot Edward Dumaresq John Bisdee
Roderic O'Connor Joseph Archer
William Kenworthy George Maclean John Beamont John Walker
Edward Abbott William T. Noyes Joseph Steele Robert Davidson William Gray Edward Berthon Robert Officer William Crooke Alexander Macpherson John Coverdale Charles M'Lachlan Samuel J. Dyer John Kerr John Forster
Josiah Spode Loftus F. Jones John Lee Archer Edward Barclay
J. H. Moore, Esquires Francis H. Henslowe Wm. Bedford (Clerk) Richard H. Willis
William Moriarty Fred. L. V. Steiglitz
John Clark Samuel Barrow
Francis Aubin James A. Gibson Robert V. Legge William Fletcher Thomas Mason Henry Jeanneret
Win. T. Parramore Charles B. Cumberland Charles Swanston James Richardson
George Hull Herbert V. Mundell Adam Turnbull William Tarleton
Jocelyn B. Thomas Francis C. Doveton Benjamin Berthon Peter Fraser
Theodore B. Bartley William E. Nairn George S. Davies Peter Cheape
Joseph Milligan George Harrison John Leake Francis Burgess
Matthias Gaunt Frederick E Chalmers Matthew C. Friend Charles Meredith Robert Hepburn Edwin Whiting
William Proctor Fred. A. Dowtiing George Palmer Ball Robert Power
Johu Whitefoord James Conway Victor Charles O'Hara Booth Thomas D. Chapman
James Henty John Dunn the younger Charles Schaw Hugh Calvely Cotton
Frederick H. A. Forth Edward Bisdee
Ronald Campbell Gunn Francis W. V. Steiglitz George Henry Barnes Wm. Russ Pugh
James Radcliffe R. Q. Kermode, Esqs.
George Klug Thomas Reibby (Clerk)
James Crear James Maclanachan Cornelius Gavin Casey James Mackersey Ben. Bayley Esquires Richard Lewis
Philip Palmer (Clerk) William Robertson G. T. W. B. Boyes William Watchorn William Gunn John Cameron Robert Jacomb William Carter
William Neilly James Robertson Harvey Welman Philip T. Smith
Arthur Gardiner Thomas Crittenden William Archer Stephen H. Grueber Francis Y. Wilmore Willum S. Sharland William P. Weston William Fletcher William Paton James D. Toosey James Smith Abraham Walker John F. Sharland James Raven
Algernon Burdett Jones Henry Hopkins
William Henry Breton Sjlverius Moriarty William T. N. Champ Thomas Manley Edmund Wm. Wilmore Simeon Lord
John Dunn J. Grant the younger Charles Arthur David Ogilvy
Joseph G. Jennings John R. Salmon William Franks Charles Reid
James Peck Poynter Wm F. Wright
Robert Pringle Stuart Thomas Ritchie
Cornelius Driscoll John Tomes
Frederick G. Brock Robert G. Hamilton John Foster Henry Graham
Henry Miller Richard H. Browne James Aitkin John Cannan Robert Barr Edward Hill
John Abbott John Redman Bateman Edward Archer James Davis
John Atkinson Thomas C. Brownell Richard Barker Francis Evans
Edward S. P. Bedford John C. Harold Alexander Clerke Henry Arthur
Arthur Thomas Collett Samuel Henry Thomas John Cox Edward Moore Richard Dry, Esquires John Meyer
R. W. Gibbs (Clerk) R. W. Fenwick, Esqs. Charles B. Hardwicke T. N. Grigg (Clerk) Hezekiah Harrison Charles H. Marshall
Charles Shum Henty Frederick Evans Teush Thomas Hewitt William Langdon Anthony Fenn Kemp Henry Lloyd
Edward Macdowell Walter Davidson Askin Morrison Joseph Ronney
James George Parker A. H. Eardley-Wilmot Joseph Penny Charles Headlam
John Price D'Arcy Wentworth Henry Reed Frederick Seymour Horace Rowcroft John Swan
John Sinclair Joseph Chipman, Esqs. Francis Smith James Norman (Clerk) Frederick C. Smith Henry K. Bloomfield
Robert P. Stewart William Hulme Francis G. Tabart John Singleton Archibald Thompson Alexander Orr
Edward Tobin William R. Allison
Robert Wales James Barnard, Esqs.
Thomas Walker
Know ye that we have assigned you, jointly and severally, and every one of you, our Justices to keep our peace in our colony of Van Diemen's Land and the dependencies thereof, and to keep and cause to be kept all ordinances and statutes for the preservation of the peace, and for the quiet rule and government of our people, made in all the singular their articles in our said colony and the dependencies thereof, 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 our said colony or the depen-
dencies thereof.
And to cause to come before you, or any of you, all those within our said colony and the de-pendencies thereof 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 re-fuse 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 inquire 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, fore-stallings, regratings, engroshings, and extortions whatsoever, and of all and singular other crimes and offences of which the Justices of our Peace
may or ought lawfully to inquire, by whomsoever and after what manner soever in our said colony or the dependencies thereof done or perpetrated, or, which shall happen to be there done or at-tempted.
And also of all those who in our said colony or the dependencies thereof in companies against our peace in disturbance of our people with armed force have gone or rode, or hereafter shall pre-sume to go or ride, and also of all thoso 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 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 or any of them therefore made for the common benefit of our said colony or its dependencies, and our people thereof, havo offended or attempted, or hereafter shall presume to offend or attempt.
And also of all sheriffs, constables, keepers of gaols, and other officers, who in the execution of their offices about the promises, or any of them, have unduly behaved themselves, or hereafter shall presume to behave themselves unduly, or have been or shall hereafter happen to be careless, remiss, or negligent, in our said colony or the dependencies thereof.
And of all and singular articles and circum-stances, and of all other thing!, whatsoever that concern the premises, or any of them, by whom-soever and after what manner soever in our said colony or the dependencies theroof done or per-petrated, or which hereafter shall there happen to be done or attempted in what manner soever.
And to inspect all indictments whatsoever so before you or any two or more of you taken or to be taken, or before others late our Justices of the Peace in our said colony or the dependencies thereof taken and not yet determined, and to make and continue processes thereon against all and singular the persons so indicted, or who before you hereafter shall happen to be indicted, until they can be taken, surrender themselves, or be
outlawed.
And to hear and determine all and singular the felonies, poisonings, trespasses, forestallings, re-gratings, engrossings, extortions, unlawful as-semblies, indictments aforesaid, and nil and sin-gular other the premises according to the laws and statutes of England, and of our said colony and the dependencies thereof, as in the like case it has been accustomed or ought to be done.
And the same offenders, and every of them, by their offences by ones, ransoms, amercements, forfeitures, and other means, as according to the law and custom of England or form of the ordi-nances and statutes aforesaid, it has been accus-tomed or ought to be done to chastise and punish.
Provided always, that if a case of difficulty upon the determination of any of the premises be-fore you, or any two 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 our Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Van Diemeu's Land.
And therefore, we command you and every of you, that to keeping the peace, ordinances, and statutes, and all and singular other the premises, you diligently apply yourselves, and that at cer-tain days and places duly appointed, or to be hereafter appointed for those purposes, into the premises ye make inquiries, and all and singular the premises hear and determine, and perform and fulfill them in the aforesaid form, doing therein what to justice appertains, according to the law and customs of England, and to the sta-tutes and ordinances aforesaid ; saving to us the amercements and other things to us therefrom be-longing.
And we command our Sheriff of our said colony and its dependencies, at certain days and places duly appointed, or to be hereafter 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 those our Letters to be made patent, and the Great Seal of our said colony to be hereunto affixed.
Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, our Lieut.-Governor of and in our said colony of Van Diemen's Land and the dependencies thereof, this eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
W. T. DENISON.
By His Excellency's Command,
J. E. BICHENO, Colonial Secretary.