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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures 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. IV.] WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1851. [No. 14.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS an Ordinance was enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 17, intituled “An Ordinance to repeal the Cattle Trespass Ordinance, and the Cattle Trespass Amendment Ordinance, and to provide for the summary recovery of compensation for damages done by Cattle Trespassing;” it is amongst other things enacted that “if any Cattle shall be found wandering at large in any street or public place within the limits of any town or village which shall be proclaimed by the Governor (or Lieutenant-Governor) to come within the operation of this present provision, the owners thereof shall forfeit and pay for every head of cattle so wandering any sum not exceeding Five Shillings, to be recovered in a summary way.”
And whereas it is further provided that “for the purposes of this Ordinance, the word ‘cattle’ shall be taken to include horned or neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, and swine.”
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Munster, aforesaid, in pursuance of the authority, by the said in part recited Ordinance in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that on and after the first day of July, 1851, the town of Christchurch, in the Canterbury District, as the same is delineated and described in the authorised plans of the Canterbury Association, shall come within the operation of the hereinbefore recited provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, Wellington, this seventeenth day of May, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
G. Grey,
Governor.
By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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New Munster Gazette 1851, No 14
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🏛️ Proclamation regarding Cattle Trespass Ordinance
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration17 May 1851
Proclamation, Cattle Trespass Ordinance, Christchurch, Canterbury District
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary