New Zealand Gazette – 1842 – No. 20

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✨ Local Government Proclamations

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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
Published by Authority.

VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1842. [No. 20.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON, Esq.,
Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy,
and Governor and Commander in Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, Session II, No. 16, intituled, "An Or-
"dinance to provide for the summary recovery
" of compensation for Damage done by Cattle
"Trespassing," it is enacted, that if any Cattle
shall be found wandering at large in any street
or public place within the limits of any Town or
Village which shall be proclaimed by His Excel-
lency the Governor to come within the operation
of this Ordinance, the owner thereof shall forfeit
and pay for every head of cattle so wandering
any sum not exceeding five shillings, to be re-
covered in a summary way. Now, therefore, I,
the Governor and Commander in Chief of the
Colony of New Zealand aforesaid, in pursuance
of the authority by the said in part recited
Ordinance in me vested, do hereby proclaim and
declare from and after the first day of July next
so much of the Township of Auckland as is
hereinafter described, to come within the opra-
tions of the said Ordinance, for the time
being:-that is to say that part of the said
Township which is bounded on the west by
a line following the centre of Lower William-
street; on the south by a line traversing
the centre of Douro-street, the centre of
Wellington-square and Wellesley-place; from
thence in a straight line to the south-west corner
of the Government fence, following the said
fence to its south-east corner, and leaving it in
a straight line for the south-west corner of the
Allotment occupied by the Superintendent of
Works; following the south boundary of the
said Allotment to the waters of Mechanics' Bay;
and on the east and north by the said waters to
Lower William-street aforesaid.

Given under my Hand, this fourteenth
day of May, in the year of Our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred
and forty-two, at Government House,
Auckland.

W. HOBSON,
GOVERNOR.

By His Excellency's Command,
WILLOUGHBY SHORTLAND.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency WILLIAM HOBSON Esq.,
Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy,
and Governor and Commander in Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony in New
Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice
Admiral of the same.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, Session 2, No. 17, intituled, "An
Ordinance to impose a Tax upon Raupo Houses,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Ex-
cellency the Governor from time to time by
Proclamation, to declare the provisions therein-
after contained, to be in force in any Town, or
part of any Town, the boundaries whereof re-
spectively shall be defined by such proclamation;
and whereas it is further enacted by the afore-
said Ordinance, that on a day to be named in
such Proclamation, not being less than six calen-