Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 13

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✨ Provincial Notices

thereof, as well as all officers requisite for the administration of the Civil Government.

A new and a very different state of things has, however, supervened since the passing of the Constitution Act of 1852, which extinguished those two provinces and created others, and appointed that there should be for each of them a Superintendent and a Provincial Council.

Her Majesty, by letters patent, bearing date September 13, 1852, appointed Sir George Grey, Governor of this Colony, and vested in him, and (in case of his absence,) in the Acting Governor, the whole of the executive power pertaining thereto; and required and commanded him to do and execute all things belonging to his command, according to such laws as were then, or should be thereafter in force, in the Islands of New Zealand, and in the several Provinces thereof.

No executive power whatsoever has been conferred on the Superintendent of this Province by or under any Act of Parliament, and none has been delegated to him by Her Majesty: he is not Her Majesty’s Attorney-General for the Colony or the Province, and he has not the power of appointing any one to act in that capacity.

I am therefore of opinion that his Honor could not, either in person or otherwise, have caused a writ of quo warranto to be sued out of the Supreme Court, or a quo warranto information to be filed therein, against the persons styling themselves “The Auckland City Council.”

Proceedings of that nature can only, as already stated, originate with Her Majesty’s Attorney-General, or with the person lawfully acting in that capacity.

SINGLETON ROCHFORT,
Law Officer for the Province of Auckland.

Princes-street, Auckland,
May 8, 1855.

AUCTIONEERS’ LICENSES.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
3rd May, 1855.

A LIST of Persons to whom Licenses have been issued to exercise the business or calling of Auctioneer, within the Province of Auckland, for the term of One Year, from the 25th day of April, 1855.

Names. Place of Abode. Calling.
A. W. Hansard, Auckland, General Agent.
Thos. Weston & Co., Ditto Ditto
T. F. M’Gauran Otahuhu Ditto
Joseph Newman Remuera Ditto
Connell & Ridings Auckland Ditto
R. Schultz & Co. Ditto Ditto
David Nathan Ditto Ditto

R. F. PORTER,
Provincial Treasury Clerk.

Public Pound, Newmarket,
4th May, 1855.

IMPOUNDED, at the Public Pound, Hundred of Auckland, Newmarket, by the Ranger of the Auckland Hundred, for running at large on the Waste Lands :—

One red and white Bull, no brand.

If not claimed, to be sold at the Public Pound at noon on Saturday, 2nd June next agreeable to the provisions of the Impounding Ordinance Victoria II, sec. 8, No. 6.

JOSEPH OSBORNE,
Poundkeeper.

Printed by Williamson and Wilson, for the Provincial Government.

Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa — Auckland Provincial Gazette 1855, No 13

After Parliament moved to Wellington in 1865, the Auckland Provincial Council sat in General Assembly House (depicted).

It was nicknamed the 'Shedifice' as it was large and drafty, with a leaking roof. First premier Henry Sewell described it as 'a great wooden barnshaped affair, which might serve for a Hospital, a Jail, or a Barrack'.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏘️ Publication of Provincial Law Officer's Opinion (continued from previous page)

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated8 May 1855
KeywordsLegal Opinion, Provincial Law Officer, Publication, Auckland
👩‍💼 Officials

SINGLETON ROCHFORT, Law Officer for the Province of Auckland

🏘️ Auctioneers’ Licenses Issued

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated3 May 1855
KeywordsLicenses, Auctioneers, Auckland
👱🏽 Names

8 names identified

A. W. Hansard, Issued auctioneer license
Thos. Weston, Issued auctioneer license
T. F. M’Gauran, Issued auctioneer license
Joseph Newman, Issued auctioneer license
Connell, Issued auctioneer license
Ridings, Issued auctioneer license
R. Schultz, Issued auctioneer license
David Nathan, Issued auctioneer license

👩‍💼 Officials

R. F. PORTER, Provincial Treasury Clerk

🏘️ Impounded Livestock Notice

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated4 May 1855
KeywordsLivestock, Impounding, Public Pound, Newmarket
👩‍💼 Officials

JOSEPH OSBORNE, Poundkeeper

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