Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1857 – No. 16

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✨ Provincial Proclamations

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,

RICHARD PACKER,

Provincial Secretary.

VOL. IV.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1857. [No. XVI.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled, "an Act for granting a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was enacted that no bill passed by a Superintendent and Provincial Council which shall be reserved for the signification of the assent of the Governor shall have any force or authority within the Province in the Government Gazette, that such Bill has been laid before the Governor, and that the Governor has assented to the same. And whereas an Ordinance was passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury, entitled "The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance, Sess. VIII., No. 8," and the same was reserved by me for the assent of His Excellency the Governor.

Now therefore I, James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, proclaim and declare that the aforesaid Ordinance has been laid before His Excellency the Governor, and that His Excellency has assented to the same.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this twenty seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD.

Superintendent.

By his Honor's command,

RICHARD PACKER,

Provincial Secretary.

God save the Queen!

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of her present Majesty, cap. 72, entitled "an Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auckland, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago, are thereby established; and it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council.

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that every Provincial Council shall continue for the period

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🏛️ Proclamation regarding the Provincial Council Extension Ordinance

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated27 July 1857
KeywordsProclamation, Provincial Council, Ordinance, Canterbury, Legislation
👱🏽 Names

James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury

👩‍💼 Officials

Richard Packer, Provincial Secretary
James Edward Fitz Gerald, Superintendent

🏛️ Proclamation regarding the Representative Constitution Act

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsProclamation, Representative Constitution, Provincial Council, Governor
👱🏽 Names

Thomas Gore Browne (Colonel, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath), Governor of the Colony of New Zealand

👩‍💼 Officials

Thomas Gore Browne, Governor

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