✨ Proclamation of Charter
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. VII. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 1847. No. 25.
PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, &c., &c.
WHEREAS in pursuance of an Act
made and enacted in the Parliament
holden in the ninth and tenth years of Our
Reign, intituled "An Act to make further
provision for the Government of the New
Zealand Islands." We have been pleased
to issue certain Letters Patent, a copy whereof
is hereinafter set forth, (being the New Zea-
land Charter), under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom, and certain Instructions,
under Our Sign Manual and Signet, accom-
panying the same :
And Whereas in and by the said Letters
Patent, we did deelare our will and pleasure
to be, that the said Charter should not take
effect or come into operation in the said Islands
of New Zealand, until the same should have
been published and made known to the In-
habitants of the said Islands, by a Proclama-
tion to be for that purpose issued by the
person commissioned by Us to be Governor-
in-Chief, for the time being, of the said
Islands :
And Whereas by certain Letters Patent,
bearing date the twenty-third day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and forty six,
We have commissioned and appointed George
Grey, Esquire, to be Governor-in-Chief in
and over the Islands of New Zealand :
Now We do hereby publish and make known
the said Letters Patent, (being the New Zealand
Charter). And We do hereby further pro-
claim and declare that this Our Proclamation
shall take effect, and that the said New
Zealand Charter shall take effect and come
into operation upon and from the first day of
January, in the Year of Our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and forty-eight.
In testimony whereof, We have caused this
Our Proclamation to to be Sealed with the
Seal of Our Colony of New Zealand.
Witness, Our trusty and well-be-
loved George Grey, Esquire,
Governor-in-Chief in and over
(L. S.) the Islands of New Zealand, at
Government House, Auckland,
this twenty-fourth day of Novem-
ber, in the eleventh year of Our
Reign, and in the year of Our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-seven.
GEORGE GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender
of the Faith. To all to whom these presents shall
come, greeting. Whereas by an Act made and passed
in the Parliament holden in the ninth and tenth years
of our reign, intituled "An Act to make further pro-
vision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands,"
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NZ Gazette 1847, No 25
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🏛️ Proclamation regarding the New Zealand Charter taking effect
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration24 November 1847
Proclamation, Letters Patent, New Zealand Charter, Governor-in-Chief, Royal Authority
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
- George Grey, Esquire, Governor-in-Chief
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary