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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, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1851. [No. 3.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1851.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Act of the Imperial Parliament relating to the disposal of Lands in the Canterbury Settlement, for general information.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Colonial Secretary.
ANNO DECIMO TERTIO & DECIMO QUARTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
CAP. LXX.
An Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain Lands in New Zealand. [14th August, 1850.]
WHEREAS by Letters Patent dated the Twelfth Day of February in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty certain Persons therein named were constituted a Body Corporate, with perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, by the Name of “The New Zealand Company,” for the Purpose of purchasing, acquiring, and alienating Lands within Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and for other the Purposes therein set forth : And whereas Her Majesty on the Twenty-third Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-six issued under Her Majesty’s Sign Manual and Signet certain Instructions accompanying the New Zealand Charter of the same Date, and providing amongst other things in the Thirteenth Chapter thereof for the Settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown in the said Colony of New Zealand, and on the Twenty-seventh Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine issued certain additional Instructions in relation to the said Lands : And whereas by an Act passed in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled, An Act to promote Colonization in New Zealand, and to authorize a Loan to the New Zealand Company, after enacting that the Provisions relating to the Settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown contained in the Thirteenth Chapter of the said Instructions, with the Exceptions therein mentioned, should be suspended and of no Force and Effect within the Province of New Munster in the said Colony of New Zealand until the Fifth Day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and during such further Time as should be directed by Parliament,
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New Munster Gazette 1851, No 3
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🗺️ Publication of Imperial Act on Canterbury Settlement Lands
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey17 January 1851
Imperial Act, Canterbury Association, Land disposal, New Zealand Company
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary