New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 22

Page 133

✨ Treaty Exposition and Land Claims



  1. "In the ports of
    Japan either now open, or
    which may hereafter be
    opened, to the ships or
    subjects of any foreign
    nation, British ships and
    subjects shall be entitled
    to admission, and to the
    enjoyment of an equality
    of advantages with those
    of the most favoured na-
    tion, always excepting the
    advantages accruing to the
    Dutch and Chinese from
    their existing relations
    with Japan."

  2. This convention shall
    be ratified, and the ratifica-
    tions shall be exchanged
    at Nagasaki on behalf of
    Her Majesty the Queen of
    Great Britain, and on be-
    half of His Highness the
    Emperor of Japan, within
    twelve months from the
    present date"

  3. "When this Conven-
    tion shall be ratified, no
    high officer coming to
    Japan shall alter it."

Arrangement regarding Stamps.

An arrangement made subsequently to the Conven-
tion requires that British ships intending to visit Japan,
shall be provided with a document in proof of their
nationality, and as a check upon the conduct of vessels
in Japanese ports; and Her Majesty's Government has
directed a form of certificate of registation to be adopted
which has been accepted as satisfactory by the Japanese
authorities; and merchant ships arriving in Japanese
ports are to submit their certificate of registration to
the officers to be appointed by the Japanese authorities,
and to permit them to make such extracts from it as may
seem good to them, before such ships can be admitted
to obtain repairs and supplies. Her Majesty's ships of
war will not be provided with such documents; but the
officers in command, upon proper application, will afford
all reasonable information regarding their ships.

REGULATIONS for the Port of Nagasaki, communicated
to Rear Admiral Sir James Stirling, by the Governor
of Nagasaki, October 1854.

Standing Port Regulations.

Article I. Ships shall anchor within Two-sima, and
there await the directions of the Governor.

Article II. No firearms to be discharged.

Article III. No person to land on any of the islands.

Article IV. No soundings to be taken, nor boats to be
pulling about.

Article V. Should any communication be desired, a
boat of the upper officers shall be called; but no com-
munication shall be held with merchant-boats, and no
exchange of articles take place, or trading of any sort.

The above being according to the law of Great Japan
all commanders and other officers shall obey the same,
and orders shall be given to the crew that the aforesaid
law shall not be broken.

No Regulations for the Port of Hakodadi have yet
been communicated.

  • The Form of Register issued to British vessels at the Custom-
    house,

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Exposition.
Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain, can set
aside the Convention en-
tered into with Her Ma-
jesty alone by His Impe-
rial Highness the Empe-
ror of Japan.

The fifth Article secures
in the fullest sense to
British ships and subjects
in every port of Japan,
either now open or here-
after to be opened, an
equality in point of advan-
tage and accommodation
with the ships and subjects
or citizens of any other
foreign nation, excepting
any peculiar privilege
hitherto conceded to the
Dutch and Chinese in the
port of Nagasaki. If
therefore any other nation
or people be now or here-
after permitted to enter
other ports than Nagasaki
and Hakodadi, or to ap-
point Consuls, or to open
trade, or to enjoy any ad-
vantage or privilege what-
ever, British ships and
subjects shall, as of right,
enter upon the enjoyment
of the same.

Land Claims' Office, New Plymouth,
17th May, 1856.

I, WILLIAM HALSE, a Commissioner
duly appointed by virtue of the Ordi-
nance No. 15, Session 11, of the Legislative
Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to
hear and decide claims to land, by persons
claiming title thereto, from, through, or under
the New Zealand Company, report that the
claims of the persons whose names appear in
the Schedule hereunder, having been duly re-
ferred to me for investigation, I do hereby
decide that the said persons are respectively
entitled to the Crown Grants set against
their names in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE REFERRED TO.

No. of Report. No. of Claim. Name of Claimant. Commissioner's decision
284 184 Charles Everett Entitled to a grant of Rural Section 14, in the Bell District, New Plymouth.
285 386 Charles Bulkeley Entitled to a grant of Rural Section 17, in the Bell District, New Plymouth.
286 70 William Cutfield King Entitled to a grant of the Storehouse Re- serves 1 & 12, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.
287 71 Do. Entitled to a grant of the Storehouse Re- serve 11, in the town of New Plymouth, FitzRoy District.
288 451 Josias Hoskin Entitled to a grant of the Storehouse Re- serve 2, in the town of New Plymouth, FitzRoy District.
289 524 Henry Lancelot Redhead Entitled to a grant of Section 112, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.
290 527 Peter Facey Hoskin Entitled to a grant of the Storehouse Re- serve 4, in the town of New Plymouth, FitzRoy District.
291 528 Do. Entitled to a grant of the Storehouse Re- serve 13, in the town of New Plymouth, FitzRoy District.
292 531 Elizabeth Hellier Entitled to a grant of Section 1037, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.
293 532 George Weston Entitled to a grant of Section 612, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.
294 533 John Prout Entitled to a grant of Section 1062, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.
295 534 Do. Entitled to a grant of Section 1266, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.
296 535 Do. Entitled to a grant of Section 1265, in the town of New Ply- mouth, FitzRoy Dis- trict.

WM. HALSE,
Commissioner.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Convention between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Japan and Exposition of Articles (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
16 June 1856
Treaty, Japan, Nagasaki, Hakodadi, British ships, Port regulations, Treaty ratification

🗺️ Land Claims Commissioner's Decision for New Plymouth Applicants

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
17 May 1856
Land grants, New Plymouth, Bell District, FitzRoy District, Crown Grants, Claimant schedule
13 names identified
  • Charles Everett, Entitled to Rural Section 14 grant
  • Charles Bulkeley, Entitled to Rural Section 17 grant
  • William Cutfield King, Entitled to Storehouse Reserves 1 & 12
  • William Cutfield King, Entitled to Storehouse Reserve 11
  • Josias Hoskin, Entitled to Storehouse Reserve 2
  • Henry Lancelot Redhead, Entitled to Section 112 grant
  • Peter Facey Hoskin, Entitled to Storehouse Reserve 4
  • Peter Facey Hoskin, Entitled to Storehouse Reserve 13
  • Elizabeth Hellier, Entitled to Section 1037 grant
  • George Weston, Entitled to Section 612 grant
  • John Prout, Entitled to Section 1062 grant
  • John Prout, Entitled to Section 1266 grant
  • John Prout, Entitled to Section 1265 grant

  • WM. HALSE, Commissioner