Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1856 – No. 17

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✨ Proclamation and Regulations

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s command,

JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. III.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1856. [No. XVII]

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Waste Lands Act, 1854,” it is provided that if the Superintendent and Provincial Council, of any Province, shall recommend to the Governor any Regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within such Province, it shall be lawful for the Governor, if he shall think fit, with the advice of his Executive Council, by Proclamation, in the New Zealand “Government Gazette,” to issue and put in force such Regulations within such Province, on a day to be named in the Gazette in which the same shall be published, not being less than one calendar month from the publication thereof.

And Whereas the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, have recommended to me the following Regulations numbered respectively 67 and 68, in substitution for the Clauses bearing the same numbers in the Regulations now in force within the said Province, for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said Province.

Now therefore I, the Governor, pursuant to the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act, do hereby, with the advice of the Executive Council, proclaim and issue the said Regulations numbered respectively 67 and 68 in substitution as aforesaid, and I do hereby declare that the same shall come into force on the 15th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Auckland, in the Islands aforesaid, this 14th day of August, in the Year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,

C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

God Save the Queen.

VUW Te Waharoa — Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1856, No 17

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🏛️ Proclamation of Waste Lands Regulations

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated14 August 1856
KeywordsWaste Lands Act, Regulations, Proclamation, Canterbury Province
👩‍💼 Officials

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
C. W. Richmond, Colonial Secretary

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