✨ Government Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(SOUTHERN PROVINCE.)
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,
S. E. GRIMSTONE,
Acting Secretary.
VOL. I. WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1848. [No. 6.]
Secretary's Office, Wellington,
25th January, 1848.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR has been pleased to direct the re-publication of the following Proclamation from the Auckland Official Gazette, relating to the Charter for the Colony of New Zealand granted under a recent Act of Parliament.
By His Excellency's Command,
S. E. GRIMSTONE,
Acting Secretary.
PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. &c.
WHEREAS in pursuance of an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the ninth and tenth years of Our Reign, intituled “An Act to make further provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands,” We have been pleased to issue certain Letters Patent, a copy whereof is hereinafter set forth, (being the New Zealand Charter,) under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, and certain Instructions, under Our Sign Manual and Signet, accompanying the same:
And Whereas in and by the said Letters Patent, We did declare our will and pleasure to be, that the said Charter should not take effect or come into operation in the said Islands of New Zealand, until the same should have been published and made known to the Inhabitants of the said Islands, by a Proclamation to be for that purpose issued by the person commissioned by Us to be Governor-in-Chief, for the time being, of the said Islands:
And Whereas by certain Letters Patent, bearing date the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty six, We have commissioned and appointed George Grey, Esquire, to be Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand:
Now We do hereby publish and make known the said Letters Patent, (being the New Zealand Charter). And We do hereby further proclaim and declare that this Our Proclamation shall take effect, and that the said New Zealand Charter shall take effect and come into operation upon and from the first day of January, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
In testimony whereof, We have caused this Our Proclamation to be Sealed with the Seal of Our Colony of New Zealand.
Witness, Our trusty and well-beloved George Grey, Esquire,
Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, at
(L.S.) Government House, Auckland,
this twenty fourth day of November, in the eleventh year of Our Reign, and in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
George Grey,
Governor-in-Chief.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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New Munster Gazette 1848, No 6
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🏛️ Re-publication of Proclamation from Auckland Official Gazette
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration25 January 1848
Proclamation, New Zealand Charter, Governor-in-Chief, George Grey
- George Grey (Esquire), Commissioned and appointed Governor-in-Chief
- S. E. Grimstone, Acting Secretary
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
🏛️ Proclamation of New Zealand Charter
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration24 November 1847
New Zealand Charter, Letters Patent, Governor-in-Chief, George Grey
- George Grey (Esquire), Witnessed and signed the Proclamation
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary