✨ Gold Field Proclamation and Rules
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1862.
A PROCLAMATION
Proclaiming Coromandel a Gold Field.
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 Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by an Act of the General
Assembly, intituled the "Gold Fields
Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor from time to time, by Pro-
clamation, to constitute and appoint any portion
of the Colony to be a Gold Field under the
provisions of the said Act:
And whereas an application has been made
to the Governor for proclaiming the District of
Coromandel as a Gold Field:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, do
hereby, in pursuance of the said power and
authority, constitute and appoint all that Ter-
ritory hereinafter described to be a Gold Field
under the provisions of the said Act, that is to
say:-All land, being Waste Lands of the
Crown, situate within that part of the Coro-
mandel Peninsula lying to the North of a line
drawn from the mouth of the Waihou River
on the West to the mouth of the Whitianga
River on the East, thence following the
Whenua kite River to its source, and thence
by a straight line to the Hoho point.
And I declare that this Proclamation shall
come into operation and take effect on the
thirtieth day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
twenty-fifth day of June, in
the year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND, ON
SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF
JUNE, 1862.
Present: —
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
Rules and Regulations for the management
of the Coromandel Gold Fields.
PURSUANT to the authority conferred on
him in that behalf by the "Gold Fields
Act, 1858," His Excellency the Governor and
the Executive Council do make and issue the
following Regulations.
Miners' Rights on the Coromandel Gold
Field shall be signed and issued by the Com-
missioner of Crown Lands, and shall be in the
form hereunder annexed.
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NZ Gazette 1862, No 27
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🌾 Proclamation Constituting Coromandel a Gold Field
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources25 June 1862
Gold Field, Proclamation, Coromandel Peninsula, Crown Lands, Waihou River, Whitianga River
- 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
- William Fox
🌾 Rules and Regulations for the Coromandel Gold Fields
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources28 June 1862
Order in Council, Regulations, Gold Fields management, Miners' Rights, Commissioner of Crown Lands
- The Governor