NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto
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. VI.] AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JAN. 24, 1846. [No. 2.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency GEORGE GREY,
Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, &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 6, No. 1, intituled "An
Ordinance to empower the Governor of New
Zealand to regulate the Importation and Sale
of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores;"
power is given to the Governor, by Proclama-
tion, to prohibit or to make provision for re-
gulating and restricting throughout the Colony,
or within any District thereof, the Importation
and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and other
Warlike Stores.

And whereas it is expedient that restrictions
should immediately be placed on the Importation
and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and other War-
like Stores. Now, therefore, I, the Lieutenant-
Governor, in pursuance of the authority in me
vested by the said recited Ordinance, do hereby
PROHIBIT throughout the Colony of New Zea-
land, the Importation, Sale, and other disposition
of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores,
except in manner, and subject to the conditions,
hereinafter mentioned (that is to say)-

From and after the date hereof, no Arms,
Gunpowder, or other Warlike Stores, shall be
Imported, and Landed, or Sold, or otherwise
disposed of in the Colony of New Zealand, with-
out a License first obtained for that purpose

under the hand of the Lieutenant-Governor,
Superintendent of the Southern Division, the
Colonial Secretary, or of such other person as
shall be duly authorised for that purpose; and
at the place, in the manner, and according to
the terms and conditions specified in such Li-
cense.

Provided always, that nothing herein con-
tained shall prevent any person coming into the
Colony from Landing such Arms and Ammuni-
tion as he may carry for personal defence, or
for purposes of sporting, or shall apply to the
Importation and Landing of supplies for the use
of Her Majesty's Land or Sea Forces..

And I do hereby also proclaim and declare,
that for more effectually detecting and prevent-
ing the unlawful Importation, Sale, and other
disposition of Arms, Gunpowder, and other
Warlike Stores, I will cause to be awarded to
any person or persons who shall have been active
in procuring the conviction of any offender,
under the provisions of the said recited Ordi-
nance, one-half of the penalty which may be
recovered by virtue thereof.

(L. S.)

Given under my Hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Government House,
Auckland, this twenty-first day
of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred
and forty-six.

GEORGE GREY,
Lieutenant-Governor.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!