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A PROCLAMATION

Fixing a day vesting in the Governor powers
and authorities contained in "The Native
Reserves Amendment Act, 1862."

By His Excellency Sir George Grey,
Knight, Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of
New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, entitled
"The Native Reserves Amendment Act,
1862," it is enacted that from and after a
day to be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation, to be inserted in the ‘Government
Gazette’ of the Colony, and of also
each of the Provinces of New Zealand, all
the powers and authorities which by the
‘Native Reserves Act, 1856,’ are given to
or vested in, or which may be exercised by
Commissioners appointed under the Act,
shall vest in and may be exercised by the
Governor.

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in
execution of the said in part recited Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that all such
powers and authorities as aforesaid shall vest
in and may be exercised by the Governor of
the said Colony of New Zealand from and
after the first day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.

Given under my hand at the Government
House at Auckland, and issued under
the Seal of the Colony of New
Zealand, this Fourth day of August,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.

By His Excellency’s command,
ALFRED DOMETT.

G. Gazette, No. 39, August 11th, 1863.

of the Port, the Health Officer, or Medical
Practitioner as aforesaid, and one or more
legally qualified Medical Practitioners nominated for this purpose by the Resident
Magistrate; such Board to be convened by
the Resident Magistrate, which Board, or the
majority of them, shall have authority to
detain such vessel in Quarantine until every
symptom of the aforesaid disease shall have
disappeared, and until sufficient time to prevent the spread of such disease shall, in the
opinion of the Board, have elapsed since the
last case disappeared, when the same Board,
or the majority of them, have hereby power
to release such vessel from Quarantine and
admit her to pratique.

12. During the period any vessel may be
    in Quarantine, the Resident Magistrate and
    Health Officer shall visit her alongside from
    time to time, and institute such regulations
    as the nature of the case may demand, and
    the Master or Commander shall carry such
    regulations into effect or forfeit a sum not
    exceeding twenty pounds.

Power to Resident Magistrate in certain
cases.

The Resident Magistrate at any port for
which no Harbor Master is appointed shall
have all such powers as are hereinbefore
given to Harbor Masters. All penalties
hereby imposed shall be recoverable in a
summary way.

SCHEDULE A.
Questions required to be answered by the Master or
other person in command of any ship or vessel
arriving in the Port of Lyttelton from any
infected place.

1. What is the tonnage of the vessel and her
   name?—Answer.

2. What is the Master’s name, and are you the
   Master?—Answer.

3. From whence do you come, and when did you
   sail?—Answer.

4. At what port have you touched on your passage?
   —Answer.

5. What vessel have you had intercourse or communication with on your passage, and from whence
   did they come?—Answer.

6. Have you any, and what bills of health?
   —Answer.

7. Did the cholera or any other highly infectious
   and dangerous disease prevail at the place from which
   you sailed, or at any of the places at which you
   have touched, or on board of any vessel with which
   you have had communication: if so, state when and
   where?—Answer.

8. In the course of your voyage have any persons
   on board suffered from sickness of any kind? What
   was the nature of such sickness, and when did it prevail? How many persons were affected by it, and
   have any of them died in the course of the voyage?
   —Answer.

9. What number of Officers, Mariners, and Passengers have you on board?—Answer.

10. What was the number of persons on board
    your vessel when you sailed?—Answer.

11. What is the whole number of persons now ill
    on board your vessel?—Answer.

12. If there be no sickness now on board, when did
    the last attack of disease appear, and when did it
    entirely disappear?—Answer.

THE RESTRICTION REGARDING
WARLIKE STORES NOT TO APPLY
TO FRIENDLY NATIVES.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 19th August, 1863.

WHEREAS, by a proclamation published
in the ‘New Zealand Gazette’ of
the 6th August, 1863, it was declared the
under-mentioned were (among others) to be
considered as Warlike Stores, viz.:

Ploughshares, scythes, adzes, and all other
edged tools, of whatever description, capable
of being used as weapons.

Iron of all kinds capable of being converted
into weapons.

Now it is hereby notified for general information, that the above restrictions are
only to apply to those districts in which the
natives are in arms against Her Majesty’s
Government.

ALFRED DOMETT.

G. Gazette, No. 42, August 21st, 1863.