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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1858.
Colonial Secretary's Office.
Auckland, Feb. 11th, 1858.
THE following additional Instructions, under
the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, dele-
gating to the Governor of New Zealand the
several powers reserved to Her Majesty by the
Act, 15th and 16th Victoria, Chapter 72, are
published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.
VICTORIA REGINA.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
To Our Trusty and Well-beloved
THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Esquire,
Companion of Our Most Honorable
Order of the Bath, Colonel in Our
Army, Our Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Our Colony of
New Zealand, with its members and
appurtenances or in his absence to
Our Lieutenant-Governor or the
Officer Administering the Govern-
ment of Our said Colony for the time
being. Given at Our Court at
Windsor, this Fourteenth day of No-
vember, 1857, in the Twenty-first
year of Our Reign.
WHEREAS We did by Our Commission under
the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at
Westminster the Ninth day of February, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the
eighteenth year of Our Reign, constitute and
appoint you to be Our Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Our said Colony
of New Zealand with all its Members and
appurtenances whatsoever during Our Will and
pleasure and did thereby require and command
you to do and execute all things in due manner
that should belong to the trust. We have re-
posed in you in pursuance of an Act passed in
the Session holden in the Fifteenth and Six-
teenth years of Our Reign intituled "An Act to
grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand" and according to the
several powers and directions granted or ap-
pointed you by Our said Commission and the
Instructions and Authorities therewith given
you, or by such further powers and authorities
as should at any time thereafter be granted or
appointed you under Our Sign Manual and
Signet or by Our Order in Our Privy Council
or by Us through one of our Principal Secre-
taries of State and according to such reasonable
laws as were then in force in Our said Colony
or thereafter should be made by the General
Assembly of Our said Colony.
And whereas it was among other things, by
the said recited Act provided that at any time
during the continuance of the Office of any
Superintendent of a Province, it should be
lawful for Her Majesty to remove him from
such Office, on receiving an Address signed by
the Members of the Provincial Council of such
Province praying for such removal.
And whereas it was by the said Act further
enacted that it should be lawful for Her Majesty,
in and by any Letters Patent to be issued under
the Great Seal of the United Kiugdom, from
time to time, to constitute and establish within
any District or Districts of New Zealand one
or more Municipal Corporation or Corporations
and to grant to any such Corporation all or
any of the powers which, in pursuance of the
Statutes in that behalf made and provided, it is
competent to Her Majesty to grant to the in-
habitants of any Town or borough in England
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- E. W. Stafford
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Royal Commission, Representative Constitution Act, Superintendent removal, Municipal Corporation
- Thomas Gore Browne (Esquire, Companion of Our Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Colonel in Our Army), Recipient of Royal Instructions