New Zealand Gazette – 1857 – No. 26

Page 151

✨ Governor's Proclamations



Numb. 26,
151

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1857.

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 General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Naturalization Act, 1856," it is enacted,
"that all and singular the persons who shall
be declared to come within the operation of
this Act by any Proclamation to be issued in
that behalf by His Excellency the Governor,
or Officer administering the Government, shall,
as from the time to be in the respective cases
in that behalf specified by such Proclamation,
be deemed and taken, until the termination of
the next Session of the General Assembly,
to be, and to have been as from such specified
time, natural born subjects of Her Majesty,
within the Islands of New Zealand, as fully to
all intents and purposes as if their names had
respectively been inserted in the Schedule
hereunto annexed. Provided always that
every such Proclamation shall contain the
description, occupation, or calling, of the
person or persons therein named, and of his or
their residence at the date of such Procla-
mation."

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the Co-
lony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the said
Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that
the person hereinafter mentioned shall come
within the operation of the said Act from the
date hereinafter specified, viz.:
JOSEPH PAGITT,

from the 16th day of September, 1857; native
of the United States of America, farmer, of
Coromandel.

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 sixteenth day of
September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-seven.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,

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

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted
that no land acquired from the aboriginal in-
habitants after the passing thereof, shall be
open for sale or disposal until the Governor
shall have notified by Proclamation in the
"New Zealand Government Gazette" that the
Native Title has been extinguished over such
land.

Now, therefore, I, the Governor do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has



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🏛️ Proclamation regarding Naturalization Act, 1856

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
16 September 1857
Naturalization, Proclamation, Citizenship, United States of America, Farmer
  • Joseph Pagitt, Declared naturalized subject

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

🗺️ Proclamation regarding extinguishment of Native Title over acquired land

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Waste Lands Act 1856, Native Title, Land Disposal, Proclamation
  • Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand