New Ulster Gazette – 1848 – No. 8

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✨ Government Proclamations

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.

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.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. I. AUCKLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1848. No. 8

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY, Esquire, Governor-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.

WHEREAS the undermentioned Ordinances, enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, were passed in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, viz:—

No. 8. “An Ordinance to amend the Customs’ Ordinance,” Session 1, No. 3, and the “Customs’ Amendment Ordinance,” Session 3, No. 6: (20th October, 1846.)

No. 14. “An Ordinance to alter certain duties of Customs.” (6th November, 1846.)

Which Ordinances having been by the Right Honourable Earl Grey, one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, laid before the Queen, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm and allow the same.

Now therefore I, the Governor-in-Chief, do hereby proclaim and make known to all whom it may concern, that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confirm and allow the before-mentioned Ordinances.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, in the Province of New Ulster, in the Islands aforesaid, this twenty-ninth day of March, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency’s command,
for the Colonial Secretary,
J. COATES.

God save the Queen!

Colonial Secretary’s office,
Auckland, March 30th, 1848.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct the publication of the following Proclamation, issued by his Excellency while at New Plymouth, on 1st March, 1848.

By His Excellency’s command,
for the Colonial Secretary,
J. COATES.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY, Esquire, Governor-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS an Ordinance was enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New

VUW Te Waharoa — New Ulster Gazette 1848, No 8

The short-lived province of New Ulster never had an established council building (in fact, the New Ulster Legislative Council never met). The Province was led by Lieutenant-Governor George Dean-Pitt, whose residence was a regency style villa (depicted) at the top of Greys Avenue, Auckland.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation of Confirmed Customs Ordinances

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated29 March 1848
KeywordsProclamation, Customs Ordinances, Legislative Confirmation
👩‍💼 Officials

George Grey, Governor-in-Chief
Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
J. Coates, for the Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Proclamation Issued at New Plymouth

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated30 March 1848
KeywordsProclamation, New Plymouth, Legislative Announcement
👩‍💼 Officials

George Grey, Governor-in-Chief
J. Coates, for the Colonial Secretary

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