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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 forthwith to Persons to whom they may relate.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. III. AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1850. No. 15.
To all to whom these presents shall come,
I, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, send greeting.
WHEREAS, by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament, holden in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant certain powers to the New Zealand Company,” after reciting that divers land-orders or contracts for sale and conveyance of land, &c., in New Zealand, had been issued and made by the said Company, but as to which no conveyances had then been required, and from deaths of and failures by purchasers various and co-acting claims to conveyances and such land-orders or contracts might arise, it is, amongst other things, enacted that a conveyance by the Company or their trustees in whom the same shall be vested of the lands, &c., to which any such land-orders or contracts shall relate for the estate and interest thereby contracted to be conveyed remaining unrepaired or undetermined at the time of the conveyance to the purchaser or purchasers named in such land-order or contract, on his, her, or their request, or to any person or persons, and on proof of his, her, or their title, to the satisfaction (if the conveyance shall be required in New Zealand) of a nominee or nominees of the Company, approved of by the acting Governor of the colony for the time being, in writing, registered according to the laws for the time being in force for the registration of deeds, &c., in the colony, shall be deemed a full and complete performance by the Company of the contract or obligation contained in or resulting from such land-order to convey the said lands,
Now: And whereas, by an instrument in writing under the seal of the New Zealand Company, and bearing date the 20th day of September 1849, the said Company did nominate, constitute, and appoint
- William Fox,
of Wellington, in New Zealand, Esquire, or other chief agent for the time being, resident in New Zealand, - Francis Dillon Bell,
of Nelson, in New Zealand, Esquire; - William Halswell,
of New Plymouth, in New Zealand, Esquire; - William Cargill,
of Otago, in New Zealand, Esquire; - James Kelham,
of Wellington aforesaid, Esquire; - Francis Jollie,
of Nelson aforesaid, Esq., or any two of them,
to be their nominees for the purpose of performing all and singular the powers relative to such investigation and proof of title as aforesaid;
Now these Presents Witness that I, the said Governor of New Zealand, pursuant to the power and authority in me vested for that purpose by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby approve of these said nominees of the New Zealand Company.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
(Signed) G. Grey,
By His Excellency’s command,
(Signed) C. A. Dillon.
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New Ulster Gazette 1850, No 15
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🏛️ Approval of New Zealand Company Nominees
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration18 July 1850
New Zealand Company, Land Orders, Nominees, Governor Approval
6 names identified
- William Fox (Esquire), Nominated as nominee for New Zealand Company
- Francis Dillon Bell (Esquire), Nominated as nominee for New Zealand Company
- William Halswell (Esquire), Nominated as nominee for New Zealand Company
- William Cargill (Esquire), Nominated as nominee for New Zealand Company
- James Kelham (Esquire), Nominated as nominee for New Zealand Company
- Francis Jollie (Esquire), Nominated as nominee for New Zealand Company
- Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
- C. A. Dillon