New Zealand Gazette – 1863 – No. 48

Page 391

✨ Proclamations and Delegations

Lumb, 48.
391

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863.

A PROCLAMATION

Intimating Her Majesty's assent to a certain
Bill passed by the General Assembly.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander 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.

W
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Ses-
sion of Parliament held in the fifteenth
and Sixteenth years of Her Majesty's reign in-
tituled "An Act to grant a Representative
Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,"
it is amongst other things enacted that no Bill
which shall be reserved for the signification of
Her Majesty's pleasure thereon shall have any
force or authority within the Colony of New
Zealand until the Governor of the said Colony
shall signify by speech or message to the
Legislative Council and House of Representa-
tives of the said Colony or by Proclamation that
such Bill has been laid before Her Majesty in
Council and that Her Majesty has been pleased
to assent to the same:

And whereas a certain Bill passed by the
Legislative Council and House of Representa-
tives of the said Colony intituled, "An Act
to amend and consolidate the Law relating to
Gold Fields," was presented to the Governor of
the said Colony for Her Majesty's assent and
the said Bill was reserved for the signification
of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon :

Now therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the
Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the

provisions of the said in part recited Act, do by
this Proclamation signify and proclaim to all
whom it may concern that the said Bill has been
laid before Her Majesty in Council and that
Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the
same.

Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, this
fifteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Delegation of the Governor's powers under
the "Gold Fields Act, 1862," to the Su-
perintendent of Otago.

W
HEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled,
"The Gold Fields Act, 1862," it is provided
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council, under his hand and the public seal of
the Colony, from time to time to delegate to
the Superintendent of any Province or to such

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1863, No 48

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation of Her Majesty's Assent to Gold Fields Amendment Bill

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated15 September 1863
KeywordsProclamation, Her Majesty's assent, Legislation, Gold Fields Act, General Assembly
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey
ALFRED DOMETT

🏛️ Delegation of Governor's powers under Gold Fields Act, 1862

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsDelegation of powers, Gold Fields Act, 1862, Superintendent, Otago Province
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey

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