WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand did proclaim and declare that martial law would be exercised throughout that part of the Colony which lies around the Bay of Islands (including the said Bay) and within a circle of sixty miles in any direction from Russell, in the Bay of Islands: And whereas by several Proclamations bearing date respectively the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; the eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven; and the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, martial law was proclaimed by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand in the several districts in the said Proclamations respectively described: