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PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor JOHN LOGAN CAMPBELL, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the late Legislative Council of the Colony of New Zealand, passed in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Ordinance for the regulation of Prisons," it was amongst other things enacted that all houses, buildings, enclosures, or places which were used as public gaols at the time of passing such Ordinance, should be, and the same were thereby declared to be public gaols of the said colony, and that it should be lawful for the Governor of the said colony, from time to time, as to him should seem meet, by proclamation, to declare any other house, building, enclosure, or place, to be a public gaol, and that the house, building, enclosure, or place, so declared to be a public gaol, should be deemed and taken to be such, from and after the date of the said proclamation; and whereas by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the session thereof, holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her said Majesty, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was amongst other things enacted that there should be for each of the Provinces by such Act established in the said Colony, a Superintendent and a Provincial Council to be elected and constituted as and in manner therein provided, and that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of such Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, to make and ordain, for the peace, order, and good government of such Province, all such laws and ordinances as are in that behalf therein described. And whereas by an Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland, (one of the Provinces aforesaid) intituled "An Act to transfer certain powers and duties from the Governor and Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand, to the Superintendent and Provincial Treasurer of the Province of Auckland respectively," it was amongst other things enacted that all the Acts authorized or required to be performed by, and all the powers conferred upon or given to, the said Governor, by certain Ordinances enumerated in the schedule unto such Act annexed, should thenceforth cease to be performed and exercised by such Governor, and that all such Acts and powers should and might be thenceforth performed and exercised as fully and effectually, for all purposes whatsoever, within the said Province of Auckland, by the Superintendent thereof, as such Acts and powers could theretofore be done and exercised by the said Governor in such Province; and whereas the Ordinance hereinbefore recited is one of the Ordinances enumerated in the said schedule, and whereas a building, commonly called "The Stockade," has been recently erected at Mount Eden, in the suburbs of the Town of Auckland, in the said Province of Auckland, to serve as and for a public gaol, and it is expedient that the same should be declared to be a building for such purpose, now, therefore, I, John Logan Campbell, Esquire, Superintendent of the said Province of Auckland, do hereby, under and in pursuance of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the Ordinance and Acts hereinbefore recited, declare and proclaim that the said building at Mount Eden, commonly called, as aforesaid, "The Stockade," is, and shall be, a public gaol, from and after the publication of this proclamation.

Given under my hand and seal, at, Auckland aforesaid, the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

(L.S.) J. LOGAN CAMPBELL.

By his Honor's command,
HUGH CARLETON,
Provincial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Auckland:—Printed by WILLIAMSON & WILSON for the Provincial Government.