✨ Provincial County Division Proclamation
DIEU
SOIT OUI MALY
INOH
PENSE
DROIT
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1857. [No. 2.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c.
WHEREAS, by an Act passed by the
General Assembly of New Zealand,
intituled "The Counties Act, 1856," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
on the recommendation of the Superintendent
of any Province of the said Colony from time
to time by proclamation to be published in the
Government Gazette of the Colony to divide
such Province into Counties, and that all such
Counties shall have such designation and limits
as in and by the Proclamation constituting the
same shall be prescribed.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, on the recommendation of the Super-
intendent of the Province of Otago, do pro-
claim and declare that I do hereby divide the
said Province of Otago into two Counties, to
be designated respectively "THE BRUCE
COUNTY" and "WALLACE COUNTY," and the
limits of the said Counties respectively shall be
as follows:—
Of the Bruce County,
On the North the Province of Canterbury, on
the West the 169th degree of longitude
East from Greenwich, and on the East and
South the sea.
—Of Wallace County,
On the North the Province of Canterbury, on
the East the 169th degree of longitude
East from Greenwich, and on the West and
South the sea.
Given under my hand and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Auckland, in the Colony
aforesaid, this twenty-fourth
day of January, 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 !
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NZ Gazette 1857, No 2
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🏘️ Proclamation dividing Otago Province into Bruce County and Wallace County
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 January 1857
Proclamation, Counties Act 1856, Otago Province, Bruce County, Wallace County, Boundaries
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford