Governor's Proclamation




A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty’s Assent to certain Bills passed by the General Assembly.

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

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty’s reign, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall signify by speech and message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same:

And whereas certain Bills passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled,

"An Act to amend the Waste Lands Acts of the Province of Auckland."

"An Act to amend the Regulations in force in the Province of Marlborough for the sale and disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the said Province," and,

"An Act to repeal Clause 15 ‘Waste Lands Act, 1858,’ Section VII., Clause 28 of the General Land Regulations for the Sale of Waste Lands in New Zealand, proclaimed 4th March 1853, and the ‘Hawke’s Bay Naval and Military Settlers’ Act 1861,’ so far as they affect the Provinces of Wellington and Hawke’s Bay,"

were presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty’s assent, and the said Bills were reserved for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do, by this Proclamation, signify and proclaim to all whom it may concern, that the said Bills have been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under my hand at Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
William Fox.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, by James Wood,
Printer for the time being to such Government.




Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1864, No 21





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🏛️ Proclamation of Royal Assent to Bills

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
29 August 1864
Proclamation, Royal Assent, Waste Lands Acts, Auckland, Marlborough, Wellington, Hawke's Bay
  • Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
  • William Fox