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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1857. [No. 12.
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 the General Assembly of
New Zealand has been and now
stands prorogued to Wednesday the First day
of July, One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven, and it is deemed expedient further
to prorogue the said Assembly.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pursuance
of the power and authority in me vested, do
further prorogue the said General Assembly of
New Zealand, and it is hereby prorogued ac-
cordingly.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, this second day of
May, 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!
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, May 2nd, 1857.
THE following copy of Instructions issued
to the Superintendents of the respective
Provinces of New Zealand, is published for
general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE, GOVERNOR
INSTRUCTIONS TO
ESQUIRE, SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF THE PROVINCE OF
OR TO THE SUPERIN-
TENDENT FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE
SAID PROVINCE.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parlia-
ment, passed in the session held 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 it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of
each Province established in New Zealand by
the said Act, with the advice and consent of the
Provincial Council thereof, to make and ordain
all such Laws and Ordinances (except and sub-
ject as therein mentioned), as may be required
for the peace, order, and good government of
such Province, provided that the same be not
repugnant to the Law of England: and it is
by the said Act further enacted that every Bill
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🏛️ Proclamation Proroguing the General Assembly of New Zealand
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- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
- E. W. Stafford
🏛️ Notice Publishing Instructions to Provincial Superintendents
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- E. W. Stafford
🏘️ Opening of Instructions regarding Provincial Law-Making Powers
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- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor