✨ Governor's Proclamation on Arms
Numb. 10.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1860.
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 by an Ordinance enacted by
the Liutenant-Governor of New Zealand
with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council thereof, in the sixth session of the said
Council, intituled "An Ordinance to empower
the Governor of New Zealand to regulate the
Importation and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder,
and other warlike stores," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for His Excellency the
Governor, from time to time as to him shall
seem meet, by Proclamation, to prohibit
throughout the Colony or within any district
thereof (to be in such Proclamation defined)
the Importation or Sale, or both the Importa-
tion and Sale of Arms, Gunpower, and other
warlike stores; and it is enacted that it shall
also be lawful for His Excellency the Governor,
from time to time as to him shall seem meet,
by Proclamation, to make provision for
regulating and restricting throughout the
Colony or within any district thereof (to be in
such Proclamation defined) the Importation or
Sale or both the Importation and Sale of Arms,
Gunpowder, and other warlike Stores.
And whereas under and by virtue of a Pro-
clamation made and issued by me at Auckland,
on the twenty-fifth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven, divers regulations
and restrictions are in force respecting the
Importation and Sale of warlike Stores.
And whereas certain Aboriginal Natives of
New Zealand, resident in the Province of
Taranaki, are in arms against the Queen's
Sovereign Authority, and it is therefore ex-
pedient that the restrictions upon the Impor-
tation and Sale of warlike Stores be temporarily
increased.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in exercise
of the power vested in me in that behalf by the
recited Ordinance or otherwise howsoever, do
hereby prohibit throughout the Colony of
New Zealand the Importation, Sale, and other
disposition of Arms, Gunpowder, and other
warlike Stores, except in manner and subject
to the conditions hereinafter mentioned or
referred to, (that is to say):-
From and after the day of the date hereof,
Arms, Gunpowder, or other warlike Stores
shall be imported, landed, sold, or otherwise
disposed of in the Colony of New Zealand,
only under License in writing first obtained
for that purpose under the hand of the Go-
vernor, or of some person thereunto authorised
by the Governor and only at the place in the
manner and subject to the conditions (if any)
specified in such License.
Provided always, that nothing in this Pro-
clamation shall be construed to apply to the
Importation and landing of supplies for the use
of Her Majesty's Land and Sea Forces.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony, at Auckland, this
twenty-sixth day of March, in
the year of Our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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🏛️ Proclamation prohibiting Importation and Sale of Arms and Warlike Stores
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration26 March 1860
Proclamation, Arms, Gunpowder, Warlike Stores, Importation, Sale, License, Taranaki
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford