✨ Proclamation and Rate Notices
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereupon
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. IV.] AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 26, 1844. [No. 24.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency ROBERT FITZROY,
Esquire, Captain in Her Majesty's Royal
Navy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over the Colony of New Zealand,
and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS Customs' Duties on Goods
imported into this Colony have been
wholly abolished, and all provisions for the
regulation of the Revenue of Customs have been
repealed. Now, therefore, I, the Governor,
do hereby proclaim and declare, that for the
purposes of the several Acts of the Imperial
Parliament in force within this Colony, and re-
gulating the Trade, Shipping, and Commerce
thereof, all Ports and Places in New Zealand
are and will be deemed and taken to be Ports
and Places in which no Custom House is estab-
lished, and in which there is no Collector or
Comptroller or Officer of Customs, and to all
intents and purposes as if a Customs' Establish-
ment had never existed therein.
(L. S.)
Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
Auckland, this twenty-second day
of October, in the year of Our
Lord One thousand eight hundred
and forty-four.
ROBERT FITZROY.
Governor.
By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 23rd October, 1844.
THE attention of the Public is drawn to the
following Sections in the " Property Rate
Ordinance."
It is also notified, for general information,
that the Office of the Collector of Revenue under
the aforesaid Ordinance, has been ordered to be
held in the Building hitherto used as a Custom
House.
By Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
"7. On the 1st day of November in this and
every succeeding year, every person resident
within the Colony who shall be possessed of
property of any nature or kind whatsoever,
which alone or together, with any such clear
yearly Income, as aforesaid, shall in the whole
amount to the sum of £50, or upwards, shall
deliver to the Collector of the District, or cause
to be left at his office, a Return in the Form
or to the effect in the Schedule hereunto an-
nexed, setting out in words, at length, the
amount of the Rate payable by him according
to such Scale as aforesaid, in respect of the
Property and Income for which the Return shall
be made.
"11. If any person hereby required to make
such Return as aforesaid, shall fail so to do for
the space of one calendar month from the time
appointed under the provisions of this Ordinance
for the making of such Return, (notice in writ
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