New Zealand Gazette – 1862 – No. 13

Page 109

✨ Governor's Proclamations



Numb. 13.
109

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1862.

A PROCLAMATION
For the Dissolution of the Provincial Coun-
cil of the Province of Canterbury.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight, Commander of
the Most Houorable 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.

HEREAS 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 Canterbury accordingly.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this

fifth day of March, in the year of
our Lord, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
By His Excellency's Command,
HENRY SEWELL.
G. GREY.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of Joseph Fuchs.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander 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 Naturalization
Act, 1861," it is enacted that every
person who shall be declared to come within
the operation of that Act by any Proclamation
to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency
the Governor, shall, as from the time in such
Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken
until the termination of the next Session of the
General Assembly, to be, and to have been from
such specified time, a Natural-born subject
of Her Majesty within the Colony of New
Zealand, as fully to all intents and purposes as
if his name had been inserted in the Schedule
to that Act annexed. Provided always that
every such Proclamation shall contain the de-
scription, occupation or calling, of every person
therein named, and his place of residence at
the date of such Proclamation:
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the power and



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🏘️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Canterbury

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
5 March 1862
Proclamation, Dissolution, Provincial Council, Canterbury, Imperial Act
  • Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honourable 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
  • Henry Sewell

🏛️ Proclamation for the Naturalization of Joseph Fuchs

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Naturalization, Proclamation, Natural-born subject, General Assembly
  • Joseph Fuchs, Declared naturalized subject

  • Sir George Grey, Knight Commander 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