New Munster Gazette – 1852 – No. 11

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✨ Proclamation on Raupo Houses Tax



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. V.] WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1852. [No. 11.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor & 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, by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date the 23rd day of December 1846, full power and authority is granted to the respective Governors of the Provinces of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the respective Executive Councils thereof, to issue Proclamations appointing the limits of Counties, Hundreds, Towns, &c., and for other purposes therein set forth, within the said Provinces:

And whereas, by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 2, No. 17, intituled An Ordinance for imposing a Tax upon Raupo Houses, it is provided that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor from time to time by Proclamation, to declare the provisions thereafter contained “to be in force in any Town, or part of any Town, the boundaries whereof respectively shall be defined by such Proclamation;” and further, that “on a day to be named in such Proclamation, not being less than six calendar months from the date thereof, there shall be levied in respect of any building constructed wholly or in part of Raupo, Nikau, Toi-Toi, Kakaho, Straw, or Thatch, of any description, and situate within the boundaries so defined, the sum of Twenty Pounds.”

And whereas, a certain other Ordinance was enacted by the Lieutenant-



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🏛️ Proclamation on Taxation of Raupo Houses

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
25 May 1852
Proclamation, Taxation, Raupo Houses, New Munster
  • Sir George Grey, Governor & Commander-in-Chief
  • ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary