✨ Public Proclamation
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. III. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 7, 1850. No. 24.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Major-General GEORGE DEAN PITT, Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Ulster, &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 8, No. 5, intituled, “An Ordinance for regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places,” it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation, to direct and appoint that one or more slaughter-house or slaughter-houses within or near any town within the colony, shall be a Public Slaughter-house or houses, for such period as he shall in that behalf appoint, and by any such Proclamation to direct that all cattle slaughtered in any such town, or within three miles from the outer boundary thereof, for sale, barter, shipping, or exportation, shall be slaughtered at such slaughter-house or houses only; —and it is also enacted that every person who shall slaughter or cause to be slaughtered any cattle as aforesaid, contrary to the provisions of any such Proclamation, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Pounds for every head of cattle so slaughtered.
Now therefore, I, the Lieutenant-Governor, pursuant to the authority in me so vested in that behalf, do hereby proclaim, direct, and appoint that the Slaughter House recently erected in the neighbourhood of Auckland, near Hobson’s Bridge, shall be a Public Slaughter House for the purposes of the said recited Ordinance, until public notice to the contrary shall have been given in the New Zealand Government Gazette; and that there shall be levied, collected, and received for the slaughtering of cattle at such public Slaughter House as aforesaid, the fees hereafter mentioned; that is to say,
For every Bull, Cow, Heifer, Steer and other head of Cattle ........ 3s. 6d.
For every Calf not exceeding one year old, and for every Sheep and Goat .................. 1s. 0d.
For every Boar, Sow, and Pig ........ 2s. 6d.
And I do hereby further proclaim and direct that on and after the first day of January, 1851, no cattle shall be slaughtered for sale, barter, shipping or exportation at the town of Auckland, or within three miles from the outer boundary thereof, except at such Public Slaughter House as aforesaid.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of New Ulster, at Auckland, this sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
GEO. D. PITT,
Lieutenant-Governor.
By his Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
God Save the Queen !
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New Ulster Gazette 1850, No 24
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Slaughter House, Cattle, Fees, Proclamation, Auckland
- GEO. D. PITT, Lieutenant-Governor
- ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary