✨ Governor's Proclamations
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1857. [No. 1]
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, &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 whenever any Bill shall
have been assented to by the Superintendent
as in the said recited Act provided, the Super-
intendent shall forthwith transmit to the Go-
vernor 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 Proclama-
tion 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 Proclamation or any subsequent day to
be named therein.
And whereas an Ordinance hath been
enacted by the Superintendent of the Province
of Otago, with the advice and consent of the
Provincial Council thereof, intituled "An
Ordinance to appropriate the Revenue for the
year ending 30th September, 1857, and to
authorise the Provincial Treasurer to take
credit for certain sums paid in course of, but
not included in, the Appropriation Ordinance
for the year ending 30th September, 1856,"
and the said Act was received by the Governor
on the 26th day of March, 1857.
And whereas it is expedient that the said
recited Ordinance should be disallowed.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zea-
land,in pursuance of the authority vested in me
in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parlia-
ment, do hereby proclaim and declare my
disallowance of the said recited Ordinance,
passed by the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Otago.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Auckland, in the Colony
aforesaid, this eighth day
of April, in the twentieth
year of the Reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, and
in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth
Next Page →
NZ Gazette 1857, No 10
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🏛️ Proclamation Disallowing Otago Provincial Appropriation Ordinance 1856-57
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration8 April 1857
Proclamation, Disallowance, Otago Province, Provincial Council, Appropriation Ordinance
- THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Governor
- E. W. STAFFORD
🏛️ Start of Second Proclamation by Governor regarding an Act of Parliament
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationProclamation, Governor, Act of Parliament, Incomplete
- THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Governor