✨ Proclamation and Appointments
Numb. 41. 243
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1861.
A PROCLAMATION
For the Dissolution of the Provincial Coun-
cil of the Province of Auckland.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honorable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial
Parliament, passed in the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present
Majesty, cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant
a Representative Constitution to the Colony of
New Zealand," the several Provinces of Auck-
land, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson,
Canterbury, and Otago, are thereby esta-
blished, and it is enacted that for each of the
said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent
and Provincial Council;
And whereas by the said Act it is further enact-
ed that every Provincial Council shall continue
for the period of Four Years from the day of
return of the Writs for choosing the same, and
no longer: Provided always that it shall be
lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, by
Proclamation or otherwise, to dissolve the same
whenever he shall think it expedient so to do;
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do by this Proclama-
tion dissolve the Provincial Council of the
said Province of Auckland accordingly.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
twelfth day of September, in the
year of our Lord, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's Command,
WILLIAM Fox.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 13th September, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
JAMES NAUGHTON, Commissioner of Police
in the Province of Auckland;
FREDERICK ATCHISON, Chief Officer of Police
in the Province of Wellington;
JOHN DUNN, Chief Officer of Police in the
Province of Taranaki; and
EDWARD WILLIAM SEAGER, Chief Officer of
Police in the Province of Canterbury;
to institute proceedings for certain offences
against the "Arms Act, 1860."
WILLIAM Fox.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 13th September, 1861.
THE following Bills, intituled—
"The Weights and Measures Ordinance
Amendment Act, 1861,"
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🏘️ Proclamation dissolving the Auckland Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government12 September 1861
Proclamation, Dissolution, Provincial Council, Auckland, Governor
- 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
- William Fox
⚖️ Appointments to institute proceedings under the Arms Act, 1860
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement13 September 1861
Police, Appointments, Arms Act 1860, Auckland, Wellington, Taranaki, Canterbury
- James Naughton (Commissioner of Police), Appointed to institute proceedings
- Frederick Atchison (Chief Officer of Police), Appointed to institute proceedings
- John Dunn (Chief Officer of Police), Appointed to institute proceedings
- Edward William Seager (Chief Officer of Police), Appointed to institute proceedings
- William Fox, Colonial Secretary
🏛️ Listing of proposed legislation: Weights and Measures Ordinance Amendment Act, 1861
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration13 September 1861
Bills, Legislation, Weights and Measures Ordinance