✨ Proclamation on Slaughtering of Cattle
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. III. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, DEC. 31, 1850. No. 25.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Major-General
GEORGE DEAN PITT,
Knight of the Most Honorable
Military Order of the Bath,
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-houses within or near any town within the colony, shall be a Public Slaughter-house or houses, for such period as shall in that behalf be appointed, 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 in Freeman’s Bay commonly known as Chadwick’s Slaughter House, 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 such cattle at such public Slaughter House as aforesaid, the fees hereafter mentioned; that is to say,
For every head of great Cattle ... 0s. 6d.
For every head of small Cattle ... 0s. 0½d.
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, or at any other Public Slaughter House directed and appointed by Proclamation for such purpose.
Given under my Hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of New Ulster, at Auckland, this 30th 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,
J. COATES,
for the Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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🏛️ Proclamation on Slaughtering of Cattle
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Proclamation, Slaughtering, Cattle, Public Slaughter House, Auckland
- GEORGE DEAN PITT, Lieutenant-Governor
- J. COATES, for the Colonial Secretary