✨ Proclamation regarding arms regulation
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.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857. [No. XXIII.
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Christchurch, Sep. 2nd, 1857.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following Proclamation for general information.
R. PACKER,
Provincial Secretary.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Sess. 6, No. 1, intituled "An Ordinance to empower the Governor of New Zealand to regulate the Importation and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time by proclamation to prohibit, and also to make provision for regulating and restricting throughout the Colony of the importation or sale, or both the importation and sale, of arms, gunpowder, and other warlike stores: And whereas it is expedient that the several regulations now in force in different parts of the said Colony should be superseded, and other provisions to be in force throughout the said Colony substituted for the same: Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby prohibit throughout the said colony the importation and sale of arms, gunpowder, and other warlike stores, except in conformity with the regulations and restrictions following, that is to say :—
- On and after the days on which this proclamation shall come into operation as hereinafter provided, no person shall import into or land in, the said Colony, or shall sell, or otherwise dispose of therein, any arms, gunpowder, or other warlike stores, without having first obtained a license for the purpose from the Governor, or some person authorised by him to grant the same, as hereinafter provided. Every warrant of appointment to grant such licenses, may contian such restrictions and conditions as the Governor may think fit.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1857, No 23
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🏛️ Publication of Proclamation by the Superintendent
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration2 September 1857
Proclamation, Superintendent, Provincial Secretary
- Richard Packer, Provincial Secretary
🏭 Proclamation regulating the importation and sale of arms and warlike stores
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- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor