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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 Signature thereunto 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. VI.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1853. [No. 6.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor-in-Chief 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 by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII, No. 7, intituled "An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet by Proclamation, to declare any House, Building, Enclosure or Place to be a Public Gaol, and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation such House, Building, Enclosure or Place, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol.
And Whereas it is desirable that the Building now used as a Lockup at the Police Station on Lambton Quay, in the Town of Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, should be proclaimed to be a Public Gaol of the Colony.
Now, therefore, I the Governor-in-Chief of the Islands of New Zealand, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the Building aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be one of the Public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand.
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 Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Civil Secretary's Office,
25th February, 1853.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF has been pleased to direct that the following Letter should be published for general information.
By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.
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New Munster Gazette 1853, No 6
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⚖️ Proclamation declaring the Lockup at the Police Station, Lambton Quay, a Public Gaol
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement16 February 1853
Proclamation, Public Gaol, Wellington, Lambton Quay, Police Station
- Sir George Grey, Governor-in-Chief
- Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary
🏛️ Notice regarding the publication of a letter for general information
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration25 February 1853
Civil Secretary, Official Correspondence, Publication
- Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary