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By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. II.] AUCKLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1854 [No. 21.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Lieutenant-
Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYN-
YARD, a Companion of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath,
the Officer Administering the
Government of the Islands of
New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Parliament holden in the fif-
teenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to
grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other
things enacted that the General Assembly of
New Zealand shall be holden at any place and
time within New Zealand which the Governor
shall from time to time by Proclamation for
that purpose appoint; and that the Governor
may, at his pleasure, prorogue or dissolve the
General Assembly.
Now, I, the Officer Administering the Go-
vernment, pursuant to the authority vested in
me in that behalf by the said recited Act, do
hereby prorogue the General Assembly of
New Zealand until Thursday, the 31st inst.
And I do hereby declare the said General
Assembly to be prorogued accordingly.
And I do further proclaim and appoint that
the said General Assembly shall meet for the
despatch of business at Auckland, on the said
day at twelve o'clock at noon; and the
Members of the said Assembly are hereby
warned to give their attendance at the same
time and place accordingly.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this 17th day of
August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four.
R. H. WYNYARD,
The Officer Administering the Government of
the Islands of New Zealand.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Printed by WILLIAMSON & WILSON, for the New Zealand Government.
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 21
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🏛️ Proclamation Proroguing and Appointing Meeting of General Assembly
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration17 August 1854
Proclamation, General Assembly, Prorogation, Meeting date, Auckland
- Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary