✨ Gold mining regulations
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
Published by Authority.
By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. V. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1852. No. 27.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel
ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Companion of the most Honourable
Order of the Bath, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New
Ulster, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS information has been received by the Government that Gold
in its natural place of deposit has been discovered in the district of Auckland, in the
Province of New Ulster, on land in the possession of Her Majesty's Native Subjects:
And whereas it is expedient that the said
Gold Field should be made available to all
classes of Her Majesty's subjects, and to that
end, as well as to the peaceable and productive working of the same, that the management of the said Gold Field—saving the interests therein of the owners of the soil—
should be undertaken by Her Majesty's
Colonial Government:—
Now, I, the Lieutenant-Governor of the
Province of New Ulster, do hereby proclaim
and declare that measures are now being
taken with the view to that object, and that,
as soon as the necessary arrangements shall be
completed, Licenses to work the said Gold
Field will be granted by the Government on
payment of a reasonable Fee.
And whereas Her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to place at the disposal of
the Colonial Legislature the profits of any
Gold Field which may be discovered in New
Zealand,—Now, for the protection of the
interests of the Public therein, I hereby further proclaim and declare that all Gold-metal or Ore containing Gold, procured without such License as aforesaid, will be liable
to be seized, in whose possession soever it may
be found; and that all persons who shall
take from any land within the Province any
such Gold-metal, or Ore containing Gold,
without being duly licensed in that behalf,
will be prosecuted according to law. And I
hereby call upon the Inhabitants of the Province to be aiding and assisting herein.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province of New Ulster, this
tenth day of November, in the
Year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two.
R. H. WYNYARD,
Lieutenant-Governor.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
10th November, 1852.
HIS Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor
directs it to be notified that permission
to dig and search for Gold, until Licenses
shall be duly issued in that behalf, will be
granted to persons who may apply for the
same at this Office.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
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