New Munster Gazette – 1848 – No. 13

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✨ Government Proclamation

NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto 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 Excellency's Command,

ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. I.] WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1848. [No. 13.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency EDWARD JOHN EYRE, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by a certain Act of Parliament passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for punishing offences committed by Transports kept to labour in the Colonies, and better regulating the powers of Justices of the Peace in New South Wales,"

it is, amongst other things, enacted -"That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty by any Order or Orders to be by him from time to time for that purpose issued, with the advice of His Privy Council, to appoint, or by any such Order or Orders in Council to authorise the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, or other persons for the time being Administering the Government of any of His Majesty's Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, to appoint the place or places within His Majesty's dominions to which any offender convicted in any such Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, and being under sentence or order of Transportation, shall be sent or Transported,"

and, that "all such persons shall, within the place or places to which in pursuance of any such Order or Orders in Council, they shall or may be so sent or transported, be subject and liable to all such and the same laws, rules and regulations, as are or shall be in force in any such place or places with respect to convicts transported from Great Britain."

And whereas Her Majesty by an Order of Her issued, by the advice of Her Privy Council, on the 22nd day of May, 1840, in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament, and in exercise of the powers thereby in Her in that behalf vested, did order that the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, or other persons for the time being Administering the Government of any of Her Majesty's Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, shall, by Proclamations to be by them respectively for that purpose issued, appoint the place or places within Her Majesty's dominions to which any Offender convicted in any such Foreign Possessions, Colonies, or Plantations, and being under sentence or order of transportation...

VUW Te Waharoa — New Munster Gazette 1848, No 13

The Province of New Munster was led by Lieutenant-Governor Edward John Eyre, whose residence was First Government House (depicted) on the land where Parliament now sits in Wellington.

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⚖️ Proclamation regarding the transportation of offenders

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
KeywordsProclamation, Transportation, Offenders, Colonial Law, New Munster
👩‍💼 Officials

EDWARD JOHN EYRE, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary

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