✨ Census Proclamation
Numb. 42.
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DIEU HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE DROIT
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1861.
A PROCLAMATION
Altering the time for taking the Census in
1861.
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 Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by “The Census Act, 1858,”
it is provided that the account of the
number and condition of the Population of
New Zealand, and of the Live Stock, and of
the Cultivations therein, respectively which
the said Act directs to be taken in every third
year succeeding the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, shall be taken in the
month of December, and that the forms of
Returns for obtaining the required informa-
tion shall be delivered by the several Sub-
Enumerators at the Dwelling Houses in their
respective Sub-Districts between the first and
the twenty-fourth days of December (both
inclusive) in the years appointed, and that the
said forms shall demanded and received by
such Sub-Enumerators on the Twenty-sixth
day of December, or as soon after as prac-
ticable.
And whereas it is further provided by the
“Census Act Amendment Act, 1860,” that
it shall be lawful for the Governor in Coun-
cil to appoint any other month, or any other
day or days for the purposes above cited in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, or in any or every third year after,
instead of the month or the day or days ap-
pointed by “The Census Act, 1858,” and
the time or times so appointed by the
Governor in Council shall be declared by
Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette,
and also that all the provisions of “The Cen-
sus Act, 1858,” relating to taking an account
of the Population of New Zealand, and of
the Live Stock and of the Cultivations there-
in, shall, except as therein provided, be
deemed and taken to apply to such time or
times as fully as if such month, or day or
days, had been specified in the said Act.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council
of New Zealand, proclaim and declare that
the forms of Returns above referred to shall
be delivered by the several Sub-Enumerators
at the Dwelling Houses in their respective
Sub-Districts between the twenty-fifth day
of November and the fourteenth day of
December (both days included), in the year
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
and that the said forms shall be demanded
and received by such Sub-Enumerators on
the sixteenth day of December in the same
year, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
twenty-seventh day of September,
in the year of Our Lord, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-one.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM Fox.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1861, No 42
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🏛️ Proclamation Altering Census Time for 1861
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration27 September 1861
Census Act 1858, Census Amendment Act 1860, Population count, Live Stock, Proclamation
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- William Fox