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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
No. 13.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1841.
PROCLAMATION.
By His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HOBSON,
ESQUIRE, Captain in Her Ma-
jesty's Royal Navy, and Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and
over Her Majesty's Colony of
New Zealand, and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice Admiral of the
same, &c. &c. &c.
WHEREAS by Letters Patent, under the
Great Seal of the High Court of Admi-
ralty of England, bearing date the thirteenth day
of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-
one, her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
ordain, constitute, and depute me, William
Hobson, Esquire, Captain in her Majesty's Royal
Navy, her Majesty's Vice Admiral, Commissary,
and Deputy in the Office of Vice Admiralty in
her Colony of New Zealand and the Territories
thereon depending.
Now I, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief
of the Colony of New Zealand aforesaid, do pro-
claim and declare this her Majesty's pleasure,
and that I have this day assumed the powers and
authority vested in me thereby.
Given under my Hand and Seal, this
twenty-seventh day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and forty-one.
"W. HOBSON. GOVERNOR."
By his Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
PROCLAMATION.
By HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM HOBSON,
ESQUIRE, Captain in Her Ma-
jesty's Royal Navy, and Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and
over Her Majesty's Colony of
New Zealand, and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, &c. &c. &c.
WHEREAS, by a certain Act of Ordinance
of the Governor and Legislative Council
of New South Wales, passed in the second year
of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, iuti-
tuled, "An Act for regulating the Police in the
"towns of Paramatta, Windsor, Maitland, Bat-
hurst, and other towns respectively, and for the
"removing and preventing nuisances and ob-
"structions, and for the better alignment of
"streets therein," it was, amongst other things
enacted, that whenever the Governor, or acting
Governor for the time being, shall deem it expe-
dient to extend the same to any other town in
the said Colony, it shall and may be lawful for
the said Governor, or acting Governor for the
time being, to declare the same by Proclamation.
And whereas, by a certain Ordinance of the
Governor and Legislative Council of New Zea-
land, passed in the fourth year of the reign of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Or-
"dinance to declare that the laws of New South
"Wales, so far as they can be made applicable,
"shall extend to and be in force in her Majesty's
"Colony of New Zealand, from and subsequent
"to the date of her Majesty's Royal Charter and
"Letters Patent, erecting into a separate Colony
"the Islands of New Zealand, &c. &c.;" it was
amongst other things enacted, that so much of
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