New Zealand Gazette – 1859 – No. 24

Page 272

✨ Government Proclamations and Acts

Numb. 24. 175

The New Zealand Gazette.

Published by Authority.

MONDAY, JULY 18, 1859.

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 its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS 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 Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill which shall be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon, shall have any force or authority within the Colony of New Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony shall signify by speech or message to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, or by Proclamation that such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same :

And whereas on the twenty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, a certain Bill passed by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the said Colony, intituled "An Act to alter the Customs Duties" was presented to the Governor of the said Colony for Her Majesty's assent, and the said Bill was reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon:

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the provisions of the said in part recited Act, do by this Proclamation signify and proclaim to all whom it may concern that the said Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Government House, at Auckland, this eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's Command,
HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 18th July, 1859.

THE following Act passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in the Session held in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled—

No. 70.—"An Act to provide for the establishment of New Provinces in New Zealand,"

having been laid before the Queen, in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to leave the same to its operation.

HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

Printed and Published by W. C. WILSON, for the New Zealand Government, at the Printing Office, Shortland Crescent, Auckland.

PDF — NZ Gazette 1859, No 24

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.

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🏛️ Proclamation signifying Her Majesty's assent to the Customs Duties Act

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated18 July 1859
KeywordsProclamation, Customs Duties, Royal Assent, Legislation
👩‍💼 Officials

Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
Henry John Tancred, Colonial Secretary

🏛️ Notification that the New Provinces Act has been left to its operation

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated18 July 1859
KeywordsNew Provinces Act, Legislation, Royal Assent
👩‍💼 Officials

Henry John Tancred, Colonial Secretary

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