Quarter Sessions Chairman Act 1839 No 11a (NSW)

No. X.

An Act to alter and improve the mode of elect- qŵtkr se.bion«

X ClIAIU MAN.

ing a Chairman tor Courts of General and —

Quarter Sessions in New South Wales.	[20̂ /«
September, 1839.]

"^T^IIEREAS by an Act of the Governor and Council passed in the Prcambio.

? T tenth year of the reign of llis late Majesty King George the

Fourth intituled “ An Act for instituting and rcgidating Courts r^io (Jco. iv. Nu. i.

General Quarter Sessions in Ncio South Wales'” provision is made

for the election nomination and appointment of a Justice of the Peace

qualiiied as therein-mentioned to act as a Chairman of the several

Courts of Quarter Sessions in the said Colony and whereas it is

cxpechent to alter and amend the said Act so tar as the same relates

to such provision and whereas hy another Act passed in the fourth

year of the reign of llis late Majesty King William the Fourth

intituled “ An Act to amend an Act of the Governor and Council 4 Wm. iv. No. ic.

“ intituled ‘An Actfor instituting Courts of General and QuarterSessio)is

“ in Neic South IFales ’ ” provision is made for the nomination and

appointment of a Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the district of

Bathurst and it is expedient that so much thereof as relates to the

nomination and appointment, of a Cliairman for said district should

be altered Be it therefore enacted hy His Excellency the Governor Uopc.nicd sn fm- .as

Avith the advice of the Legislative Council That from and after the

passing of this Act so much of the said recited Acts as relates to the ’''“"/'f Q«aitoi-

ehiction nomination and appointment of a Chaiianan of the several	'
Courts of Quarter Sessions in the Colony aforesaid or any of them and the qualilications required for such olilee shall he and the same is hereby repeahxl.

2. And he it enacted That the said Chairman shall he chosen Justices to meet for

nominated and appointed in manner following that is to say the licrcby required to attend at some place within tlie said Colony on the fust Mumiay

wliere

960 No. 10. 3 ” V I O . 1839.

Quarter Sessions Chairman.

in September in	where Petty Sessions have been duly appointed to he holden and
every year.	between the hours of twelve and four o’clock in the day on the third Tuesday in the month of October in the present year and on the first Monday in the month of September in every following year the said Justices so attending at such time and at such place

Votes to be given in qj. places shall then and there declare in writing in the form or

’ to the effect set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed which of the several Justices of the Peace for said Colony they severally and respectively desire to have appointed as such Chairman as afore-

Procoedings to be Said and the Police Magistrate of the district if present at the meeting

trans^mitted to Colo-or if not then the senior Masristrate present shall forthwith transmit Police Magistrate the voting paper O r papers or any declaration in writing as atoresaid

slnior̂ jiIgiLrate	Colonial Secretary for the purpose of being laid before His Excellency the Governor and the Justice of Peace in whose favour the greatest number of Justices throughout the Colony shall have so recorded their votes or declarations in writing as aforesaid shall he
attending.

The Governor to declared and appointed hy the said Governor to be Chairman of the

the ca^iidl^rhaving several Coui'ts of Quarter Sessions within the said Colony for the year majority of votes, then next following commencing from the first day of January of

In case of equality sucli year Provided always that if there should be an equality of appofnTan̂ onro/” votes for two 01' more Justices it shall he lawful for the said Governor

the candidates. and he is hereby required to appoint either of the said Justices to he

such Chairman as he shall see fit Provided always tliat nothing herein contained shall he construed to extend to any place where Petty Sessions are or shall he held ivithin the district of Port Phillip or any other district within the said Colony for which a (foairman of the Quarter Sessions is now or shall he hereafter actually nominated and appointed under the provision of the said hereinbefore last recited Act of Council for the appointment of Chairman to distant places.

Certain provisions in

3. And be it declared and enacted That nothing hereinbefore contained shall be construed to repeal or alter the provisions contained in the Act hereinbefore last recited for the appointment of a Chairman at distant places and also for supplying the place of the Chairman in case of death resignation removal or illness but the same shall remain and he in full force and effect and shall he held to apply as far as the same may be necessary to the Chairman so to be elected nominated and appointed under and by virtue of the provisions of this Act.

TOTto’bĉ epeaied.

SCHEDULE EEEEEEED TO.

N ew South W.'Vles 1 A t the Petty Sessions holden at

TO WIT. j for the district of for the election of a Chairman

of the Quarter Sessions for the Colony of New South Wales in pursuance of an Act intituled “ Jl 71 Act to alter and improve the mode of electhig a Chairman fo r Courts of General and “ Quarter Sessions in New South Wales” I (or we) hereby certify and declare my (or our) vote (or votes) to be in favour of Esq. proposed at the said Petty Sessions as Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the said Colony for the year

A. B. J. P.

and address.

Witness

Esq.

Presiding Justice.

No. XI.