✨ Governor Disallows Canterbury Ordinances
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1859.
PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honourable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colonyof New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Imperial Parliament holden in
the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign
of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An
Act to grant a Representative Constitution to
the Colony of New Zealand," it is
amongst other things enacted that whenever
any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent as in the said Act provided,
the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to
the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it
shall be lawful for the Governor at any time
within three months after any such Bill shall
have been received by him, to declare, by
Proclamation, his disallowance of such Bill,
and that any such disallowance shall make
void and annul the same from and after the
day of the date of such Proclamation, or any
subsequent day to be named therein.
And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter spe-
cified have been enacted by the Superintendent
of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice
and consent of the Provincial Council thereof,
and the said Ordinances were received by the
Governor on the 11th day of January, 1859.
And whereas it is expedient that the said
recited Ordinances should be disallowed,
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested
in me in that behalf by the said recited Act
of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare
my disallowance of the following Ordinances
passed by the Superintendent and Provincial
Council of the Province of Canterbury, viz. :—
"The Immigrants' Barracks Ordinance,
Sess. x., No. 2."
"The Public Hospital Ordinance, Sess. x.,
No. 6."
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, in the Colony aforesaid,
this 26th day of January,
in the year of Our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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🏛️ Proclamation Disallowing Canterbury Provincial Ordinances
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 January 1859
Proclamation, Disallowance, Canterbury Province, Ordinances, Imperial Act, Legislation
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford