✨ Naturalization 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, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1852. [No. 3.
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 an Ordinance passed by the Governor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Islands, by and with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof, intituled "An Ordinance for the Naturalization of certain persons in the Islands of New Zealand," Session xi. No. 9, it is enacted that all and singular the persons who shall be declared to come within the operation of such Ordinance by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, shall be deemed and taken, until the next Session of the General Legislature within the Islands of New Zealand, to be natural born subjects of Her Majesty:
Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby proclaim and declare that the person whose name is underwritten, shall be deemed and taken to be a natural born subject of Her Majesty from the date set opposite his name, until the next Session of the General Legislature of the Islands of New Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule annexed to the said Ordinance.
William Possenniskie, December 10th, 1851.
Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.
By His Excellency’s Command
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary
God Save the Queen!
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New Munster Gazette 1852, No 3
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🏛️ Naturalization of William Possenniskie
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration29 January 1852
Naturalization, Citizenship, Proclamation
- William Possenniskie, Naturalized as a British subject
- Sir George Grey, Governor-in-Chief
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary