✨ Gold Export Proclamation
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 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 Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Customs Regulation Act, 1858." it is
enacted that the Governor may, from time to
time, by Proclamation, require that Exporters
of Gold other than Gold Coin, or their Agents,
shall notify, in such manner and form as shall
in that behalf be prescribed, their intention to
export the same, and that the Governor may
also in like manner from time to time make
provision for the examination of exported Gold,
not being Gold Coin, and respecting the mode
of packing and securing the same, and may
prohibit the exportation thereof, except from
specified Ports, and generally may regulate
and restrict, as may seem meet, the Export of
Gold other than Gold Coin. And that every
person who shall knowingly contravene any
provision of any such Proclamation, shall for
every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding
the sum of one hundred pounds, in addition to
any other punishment or penalty to which he
may become liable by reason of such contra-
vention.
Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
the Governor as aforesaid, in exercise of the
power in me in this behalf vested by the
recited Act, do hereby proclaim and declare as
follows:-
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No Gold shall be shipped, or be water-
borne to be shipped, for exportation from the
Colony, from any Port except the Ports of
Nelson, Wellington, and Auckland, without
the special license of the Commissioner of
Customs. -
All Gold for exportation shall be securely
packed in boxes, or other packages approved
of by the Collector, or other proper Officer of
Customs at the Port of Shipment, which
packages shall contain no other articles, and
shall have on the outside thereof distinctive
marks and numbers, legibly and properly cut
or written thereon for the identification thereof. -
Persons intending to export Gold shall
give notice of such their intention to the
Collector, or other proper Officer of Customs,
at the Port of Shipment, at least twenty-four
hours before the ship, by which they respec-
tively intend to export, obtains a clearance at
the Customs, and shall bring the packages of
Gold ready for shipment to the Custom-house
for examination, in charge of themselves or
their agents, at a time to be fixed for the
purpose by the Collector, or other proper
Officer of Customs. -
Every such package of Gold shall be
opened at the Custom House, in the Collector's
Room, or such other secure place as shall be
appointed for the purpose by the Collector, or
other proper Officer, and the contents o
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🏭 Proclamation regulating the export of gold other than gold coin
🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry26 January 1860
Gold export, Customs regulations, Proclamation, Shipping restrictions, Packing requirements, Examination
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief