✨ Governor's Proclamation
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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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
and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency's Command,
C. W. RICHMOND, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. IV.] AUCKLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1856. | No. 21
PROCLAMATION.
By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the Co-
lony of New Zealand, &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 whenever any Bill
shall have been assented to by the Superin-
tendent as in the said recited Act provided,
the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit
to the Governor an authentic copy thereof,
and it shall be lawful for the Governor
at any time within three months after any
such Bill shall have been received by him to
declare by Proclamation his disallowance of
such Bill, and that any such disallowance
shall make void and annul the same from and
after the day of the date of such Proclama-
tion or any subsequent day to be named
therein.
And whereas an Act hath been enacted by
the Superintendent of the Province of Auck-
land, with the advice and consent of the Pro-
vincial Council thereof, intituled "An Act to
Provide for the Adjustment of the Pre-emptive
Land Claims" Session 5, No. 6, and the said
Act was received by the Governor on the
twenty-fifth day of April, 1856.
And whereas it is expedient that the said
recited Act should be disallowed, Now there-
fore I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pur-
suance of the authority vested in me in that
behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament,
do hereby proclaim and declare my disallow-
ance of the said recited Act.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at Auck-
land, in the Islands aforesaid, this
fifth day of June, in the nine-
teenth year of the reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, and in
the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By his Excellency's command,
C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1856, No 21
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🏛️ Proclamation Disallowing Auckland Provincial Act re Land Claims
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration5 June 1856
Proclamation, Governor, Disallowance, Provincial Council, Land Claims, Auckland
- C. W. Richmond, Colonial Secretary
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor