Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1867 – No. 11

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✨ Proclamation regarding Gold Fields

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G. GREY, GOVERNOR.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the "Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is amongst other things enacted, that the fifth part of the said Act, including sections thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine, and that section fifty-two, shall have no force or effect upon any Gold-Field until after the Governor shall, by proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, have proclaimed and extended the operation of the said part and sections to the Province wherein such Gold-Field shall be situate: And further that such proclamation shall only be made upon the application of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of a Province, and the said part and sections of this Act shall thereafter be of force and effect within such Province only:

And whereas application has been made by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson, that the operation of the said part and sections of the said Act be extended to the said Province:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, in pursuance and exercise of the power vested in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and extend the operation of the fifth part of the said Act, including sections thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine, and of section fifty-two of the said Act, to the Province of Nelson.

Given under the hand of 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 issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government, Nelson, by NATION & LUCKIE, Waimon-street, Nelson, Printers for the time being to the said Government.