New Zealand Gazette – 1857 – No. 23

Page 135

✨ Proclamation and Correspondence

QUIMALY
PENSE
DROIT

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1857. [No. 23.

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 of the Imperial
Parliament passed in the fifteenth and
sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present
Majesty, Cap. 72, intituled "An act to grant
a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auck-
land, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson,
Canterbury and Otago, are thereby established;
and it is enacted that for each of the said
Provinces there shall be a Stiperintendent and
Provincial Council.

And whereas by the said Act it is further
enacted that every Provincial Council shall
continue for the period of four years from the
day of return of the Writs for choosing the
same, and no longer. Provided always that
it shall be lawful for the Governor of New
Zealand by Proclamation otherwise, to dis-
solve the same whenever he shall think it ex-
pedient so to do.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do, by this Procla-
mation, dissolve the Provincial Council of
the said Province of Auckland accordingly.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand,
at Government House, at
Auckland, in the Colony

aforesaid, this eighteenth day
of August, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By his Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, August 18th, 1857.

THE following further Correspondence
relative to a Dissolution of the Auckland
Provincial Council is published for general
information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Superintendent's Office, Auckland,
August 13th, 1857.

SIR, - I have the honor to transmit enclosed
copy of a letter addressed to me by Major
Matson, M.P.C., together with the Memorial
therein referred to,...

I have, &c.,
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

The Honorable
the Colonial Secretary.
&c., &c., &c.

Auckland, 12th August, 1857.

SIR, - I have the honor to request you will
be pleased to forward the enclosed memorial

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1857, No 23

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation dissolving the Auckland Provincial Council

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated18 August 1857
KeywordsProclamation, Dissolution, Provincial Council, Auckland, Imperial Parliament Act
👩‍💼 Officials

Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
E. W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Publication of correspondence relative to Auckland Provincial Council dissolution

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated18 August 1857
KeywordsCorrespondence, Auckland Provincial Council, Publication, General Information
👩‍💼 Officials

E. W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Superintendent transmits letter and memorial from Major Matson, M.P.C.

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated13 August 1857
KeywordsSuperintendent, Letter, Memorial, Major Matson, Provincial Council Member
👱🏽 Names

Matson (Major), Author of enclosed letter

👩‍💼 Officials

J. Williamson, Superintendent

🏛️ Request to forward memorial dated August 12, 1857

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated12 August 1857
KeywordsAuckland, Memorial, Request, Correspondence fragment

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