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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 to Persons to whom they may relate, and are to
be obeyed accordingly.

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

VOL. IV.] AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1856. | No. 4.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of
the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth
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 Procla-
mation for that purpose appoint. Now,
therefore, I, the Governor of New Zea-
land, Do hereby proclaim and appoint that
the said General Assembly shall be holden,
and shall meet for the Despatch of Business
at Auckland, on the fifteenth day of
April next ensuing, at twelve o'clock
at noon. And the members of the said
Assembly are hereby warned to give their
attendance at the said time and place ac-
cordingly.

Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Auckland, this ninth day of
February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION.

By his Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of the High Court of Ad-
miralty, Her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to ordain, constitute, and appoint
Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of
the Bath, to be Her Majesty's Vice-Admiral
Commissary, and Deputy in the office of
Vice-Admiralty in the said Colony of New
Zealand and territories thereon depending,
to take cognizance of and proceed in all cases,
civil and maritime, and in complaints, con-
tracts, offences, or suspected offences, crimes,
pleas, debts, &c., &c., within the maritime
jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiralty of the
said Colony of New Zealand and territories
depending on the same, to hear and de-
termine the same according to the rights,
statutes, laws, and ordinances and customs
anciently observed, with power of deputing
and surrogating in any place for the premises
one or more Deputy or Deputies.

Now I, the Governor in and over the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
authority in me vested in that behalf, do
hereby appoint

SIDNEY STEPHEN, Esquire,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, during
the absence of William Martin, Esquire, my
Deputy in and for the Northern District of
New Zealand, and

DANIEL WAKEFIELD, Esquire,
a Judge of the Supreme Court during the
absence of the said William Martin, Esquire,