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AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. IX.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1861. [No. 5.
PROCLAMATION.
By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial 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 present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it was amongst other things enacted that for each of the Provinces established in the said Colony by the said Act there should be a Superintendent and a Provincial Council, to be elected and constituted under and subject to the provisions in that behalf therein contained, and that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of any of the said Provinces to prorogue the Provincial Council thereof, from time to time, whenever he should deem it expedient so to do:
Now, therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, (one of the Provinces aforesaid), do proclaim and declare that I do hereby, in pursuance of the power vested in me in that behalf by the said Act, prorogue the Provincial Council of the said Province of Auckland, and that the said Provincial Council is prorogued accordingly.
Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the said Province, at Auckland, in the Province aforesaid, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
Auckland: Printed and Published by W. C. Wilson, for the Provincial Government.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1861, No 5
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🏘️ Prorogation of the Provincial Council of Auckland
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government27 February 1861
Proclamation, Prorogation, Provincial Council, Auckland
- JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland