✨ Provincial Council Prorogation Address
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, 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,
ALFRED DOMETT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. X. NELSON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1862. No. 13.
PROROGATION OF PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
MR. SPEAKER AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL,—
In closing the Session, permit me to thank you, on the behalf of the inhabitants of the Province, for the very earnest, zealous, and lengthened attention you have given to the various important measures that have been under your consideration.
I beg also to tender you my personal thanks for the expression of your approval of the policy hitherto pursued by me, as conveyed in the resolution adopted by you on the 18th of June last, in reference to the Executive Government Bill.
It gives me much pleasure to find that you have expressed your approval of the decisions come to by the Commissioners, appointed under the Act of the General Assembly, to investigate the claims of those of our earliest settlers, who came to this Province under the auspices of the New Zealand Company, and whose privations and sufferings consequent on the non-fulfilment of its engagements with them, fully entitles them to the awards made in their favor. I shall take the earliest opportunity of conveying to the Governor your decision in this matter, and at the same time inform him of my entire concurrence therein, this being the only provision of the Act referred to requiring to be fulfilled to enable his Excellency to perform this too long delayed act of bare justice to a highly deserving portion of our population.
In my address to you on opening the present Session, I intimated my desire that an Act should be passed, providing for the liquidation of the debt of the province. The large sums, however, required during the present year, and voted by you for public works necessary for beneficial settlement, the various outlying portions of the province, appear to make it desirable that my views on this subject should be deferred until these works are accomplished.
The comparatively large sum voted by you under the head of "Miscellaneous," necessitated, as it is chiefly, by the Audit Act, will, I trust, be expended by me in such a way as to fully justify the confidence you have placed in me. I shall endeavour, to the utmost of my power, to expend this with the other votes you have passed, in such a
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1862, No 13
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- Alfred Domett, Provincial Secretary