New Zealand Gazette – 1857 – No. 28

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✨ Banking Authorization and Land Proclamation

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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1857.

At Government House, at Auckland, the 19th
day of October, 1857.
Present :-

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

The following Warrant was read :-

WHEREAS We have had under our con-
sideration your Memorial praying to
be allowed, with the sanction of the Governor
and Executive Council of New Zealand, to
issue and re-issue Promissory Notes payable to
bearer on demand at Auckland, Wellington,
and Otago, or elsewhere in New Zealand,
without making such notes payable at the head
establishment of the Colony. Now know ye,
that with reference to Our Warrant in this re-
spect bearing date the 25th day of April, 1855.
We, being two of the Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury, do by these presents au-
thorize you, with the consent of the Governor
and Executive Council of New Zealand, for
that purpose first obtained, to issue and reissue
Promissory Notes payable to bearer on demand
at Auckland, Wellington, and Otago or else-
where in that Colony, without making such
notes payable at your head establishment
of the Colony or otherwise than at the
branch of Issue, subject nevertheless in all other
respects to the regulations established for the
issue of notes for your Charter of Incorporation
and such provisions of any law passed in the
Colony which shall not otherwise be repugnant
to, inconsistent with your Charter of Incor-
poration. Given under our hands at the

Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, this sixteenth
day of May, 1857.
(Signed) { MONCK.
DUNCAN.
To the Chairman, Deputy
Chairman, and Court
of Directors of the
Oriental Bank Corpo-
ration,

[True Copy.]
(Signed) E. GAY,
The consent of the Governor and Executive
Council was granted to the Chairman, Deputy-
Chairman, and Court of Directors of the
Oriental Bank Corporation to issue and re-
issue, within the Colony of New Zealand,
Promissory Notes payable to bearer on de-
mand, as authorised by the above Warrant
dated the 16th day of May, 1857.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

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 Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted
that no land acquired from the aboriginal
inhabitants, 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.

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