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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1861.
A PROCLAMATION
For the Dissolution of the Provincial Council
of the Province of Wellington.
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., &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
Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nel-
son, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby estab-
lished, 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
enacted 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 Zea-
land, by Proclamation or otherwise, to dissolve
the same whenever he shall think it expedient
so to do.
Now therefore I, the Governor of the Colo-
ny of New Zealand, do by this Proclamation
dissolve the Provincial Council of the said
Province of Wellington accordingly.
Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
second day of February, in
the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE..
By His Excellency's Command,
HENRY JOHN TANCRED.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1861.
Present,-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly intituled the "Arms Act,
1860," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council from time to time to
declare by order in Council to be published in
the New Zealand Gazette that from and after
a day to be named in such order the said Act
shall be in force in any province within the
Colony and the same shall be in force accord-
ingly: Provided always that the same shall be
brought into force within every Province of
the Colony before the first day of March, 1861:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order
that the said Act shall be in force in all the
Provinces of the Colony on the twentieth day
of February, instant.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 2nd February, 1861.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE, Esquire,
to be Deputy of the Registear of Marriages
and of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages for the District of Christchurch.
HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
(In the absence of Mr. Stafford.)
Printed and Published by W. C. WILSON, for the New Zealand Government, at the Printing Office,
Shortland Crescent.
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🏛️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Wellington
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration2 February 1861
Proclamation, Dissolution, Provincial Council, Wellington, Governor
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Henry John Tancred
🏛️ Order bringing the Arms Act, 1860, into force across all Provinces
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration1 February 1861
Arms Act 1860, Order in Council, Commencement date, Provinces
- F. G. Steward, Clerk of Executive Council
🏛️ Appointment of Deputy Registrar of Marriages and Births/Deaths for Christchurch
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration2 February 1861
Appointment, Deputy Registrar, Marriages, Births, Deaths, Christchurch
- THOMAS WILLIAM Maude (Esquire), Appointed Deputy Registrar for Christchurch
- Henry John Tancred