Government Instructions




NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.

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.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.


Vol. II. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1849. No. 15.


Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, July 18th, 1849.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct the publication of the following additional Instructions, under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, for general information.

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

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS

to Our Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor-in-Chief for the time being: To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being: To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief for the time being; or to Our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being: or to Our Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, or to the Officer exercising the said office of Lieutenant-Governor for the time being:

Given at Our Court at Windsor, the twenty-seventh day of January, 1849, in the twelfth year of Our Reign.

WHEREAS, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and enacted in the ninth and tenth years of Our Reign, intituled “An Act to make further Provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands,” We did by certain letters patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the tenth year of Our Reign, execute certain of the powers in Us by the said Act vested: And Whereas, in further pursuance of the said Act and exercise of the powers thereby in Us vested, and in exercise of all and every other the powers in Us in that behalf vested, We did further issue certain Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, approved in Our Privy Council, being the Instructions accompanying or referred to in such Letters Patent as relation being had unto the said Letters Patent and Instructions will more fully and at large appear: And Whereas it is directed by the Twenty-second Section of the Thirteenth Chapter of the said Instructions, being the Chapter entitled “On the Settlement of the Waste Lands of the Crown,” that “no rural allotment under Our Sign Manual and Signet shall exceed in extent one square mile; but it shall be competent to any such Governor or Lieut...



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🏛️ Additional Instructions for Governors

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
27 January 1849
Instructions, Governors, New Ulster, New Munster, Royal Sign Manual
  • Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary