New Zealand Gazette – 1863 – No. 9

Page 78

✨ Proclamation and Warrant

Numb. 9.
78

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1863.

PROCLAMATION.

Disallowing the Otago Criminals Ordi-
nance, 1862.

By His Excellency SIR GEORGE
GREY, Knight, Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of
the. Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies,
&c., &c., &c.

W HEREAS by an Act made and enacted
in the Imperial Parliament holden in
the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign
of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
"An Act to grant a Representative Consti-
tution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is
amongst other things enacted that whenever
any Bill shall have been assented to by the
Superintendent as in the said Act provided,
the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit
to the Governor an authentic copy thereof,
and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any
time within three months after any such Bill
shall have been received by him to declare
by Proclamation his disallowance of such
Bill, and that any such disallowance shall
make void and annul the same from and after
the day of the date of such Proclamation, or
any subsequent day to be named therein :
And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter
specified has been enacted by the Superin-
tendent of Otago, with the advice and consent
of the Provincial Council thereof, and the
said Ordinance was received by the Governor
on the nineteenth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two :
And whereas it is expedient that the said
Ordinance should be disallowed,
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested
in me in that behalf by the said recited Act
of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and de-
clare my disallowance of the following Ordi-
nance passed by the Superintendent and Pro-
vincial Council of the Province of Otago,
viz. :-
"The Criminals' Ordinance, 1862."

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 March, 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 !

Warrant appointing Commissioners to in-
vestigate Claims to Flax Rewards.

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

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1863, No 9

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 Disallowing the Otago Criminals Ordinance, 1862

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated2 March 1863
KeywordsProclamation, Disallowance, Ordinance, Otago, Criminals, 1862
👩‍💼 Officials

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
ALFRED DOMETT

🏛️ Warrant appointing Commissioners to investigate Claims to Flax Rewards

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
KeywordsWarrant, Commissioners, Investigation, Flax Rewards, Appointment
👩‍💼 Officials

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

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