New Zealand Gazette – 1859 – No. 16

Page 103

✨ Commission and Proclamation

Numb. 16. 103

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1859.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 31st May, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs the
publication of the following Supple-
mentary Commission for general information.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
For the Colonial Secretary.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to our
trusty and well beloved Colonel Thomas Gore
Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, our Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of
New Zealand, Greeting. 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 Commander-in-Chief in and
over Our Colony of New Zealand, with all its
members and appurtenances whatsoever for and
during Our will and pleasure as upon relation
being thereunto had will more fully and at
large appear. And whereas it has been repre-
sented to Us that the necessities of Our service
in our said Colony occasionally require that
you should be absent yourself from the Seat
of Government in the Province of Auckland,
whereby the affairs of the said Province might
be exposed to detriment if there were no per-
son in the place who should be authorised to
exercise the powers and authorities which we
have by Our said Commission given and
granted to you Our Governor. Now know
you that We do by this Our Supplementary

Commission authorise and empower you, the
said Thomas Gore Browne, from time to time
as occasion shall require by an Instrument
under the Public Seal of Our said Colony to
assign, constitute, and appoint any person to
be your Deputy in the said Province of Auck-
land and in that capacity to exercise, perform,
and execute during your pleasure, but no
longer, all such powers, directions, and
authorities as are vested in you by Our said
Commission and Instructions under our Sign
Manual and Signet therein referred to. Pro-
vided nevertheless that by the appointment of
a Deputy as aforesaid your power and authority
as Governor of Our said Colony shall not be
abridged, altered, or in any way affected other-
wise than We may at any time hereafter think
proper to direct. In witness whereof We have
caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.
Witness Ourself at Westminster the eighteenth
day of February, in the twenty-second year of
Our Reign.

By Warrant under the Queen's Sign
Manual.

G. ROMILLY.

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 Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c, &c.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the
Session of Parliament held in the
fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty's
reign, intituled "An Act to grant a Repre-
sentative Constitution to the Colony of New

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