New Zealand Gazette – 1857 – No. 17

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✨ Proclamation on Arms Sales

DIEU
SOIT QUI MALY PENSE
DROIT

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1857. [No. 17.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.,
&c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by
the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zea-
land, with the advice and consent of the Legis-
lative Council thereof, Sess. 6, No. 1, intituled
"An Ordinance to empower the Governor of
New Zealand to regulate the Importation and
Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike
Stores," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
his Excellency the Governor from time to time
by proclamation to prohibit, and also to make
provision for regulating and restricting through-
out the Colony of New Zealand the importation
or sale, or both the importation and sale, of
arms, gunpowder, and other warlike stores:
And whereas it is expedient that the several re-
gulations now in force in different parts of the
said Colony should be superseded, and other
provisions to be in force throughout the said
Colony substituted for the same: Now, there-
fore, I, the Governor, in exercise of the power
vested in me in that behalf, do hereby prohibit
throughout the said Colony the importation and
sale of arms, gunpowder, and other warlike
stores, except in conformity with the regulations
and restrictions following, that is to say:-

On and after the days on which this pro-
elamation shall come into operation as herein-
after provided, no person shall import into or
land in, the said Colony, or shall sell, or other-
wise dispose of therein, any arms, gunpowder,

or other warlike stores, without having first ob-
tained a license for the purpose from the Go-
vernor, or some person authorised by him to
grant the same as hereinafter provided, Every
warrant of appointment to grant such licenses
may contain such restrictions and conditions as
the Governor may think fit.

ARMS, &C.

If there do not appear to be any sufficient
objection, a license specially applicable to each
particular case will be granted by the
Governor or other person authorised to grant
such licenses, for the importation, landing,
sale, or disposal of any arms, and other warlike
stores not hereinafter specifically mentioned,
subject to such terms and conditions as may be
prescribed in such license. A fee of 2s. 6d.
will be charged for each license for the impor-
tation, landing, sale, or disposal of any arms.

GUNPOWDER, SHOT, AND PERCUSSION CAPS.

Persons will from time to time be ap-
pointed by the Governor at convenient places
throughout the Colony with authority to grant
general licenses (to the effect of the Form A. in
the Schedule hereunto annexed) to import, land,
sell, and dispose of gunpowder, shot fit for
sporting purposes, and percussion caps. A
fee of £2 will be charged for every such
license, and the same will continue in force
for twelve calendar months from the date
thereof.
Provided always that it shall be lawful
for the Governor, or any person authorized by
him in that behalf, at any time to revoke any
such license by notice to that effect to be left
at the usual, or last known place of abode or