✨ Proclamation on Postage Rates
Numb. 23.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1864.
PROCLAMATION
Fixing Rate of Postage to be charged on Inland
Letters from Militiamen and Volunteers on
active service.
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 of New Zealand, intituled the
'New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time by
Proclamation to be published in the New
Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter, and abolish
the rates of postage at any time payable
within the Colony for the transmission of
letters by post either between places within
New Zealand, or to or from places beyond
seas, and at what time the same shall be
paid, and that the postage so made payable
shall be charged and paid accordingly :
Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the
Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony,
with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council thereof, in pursuance of the power
for this purpose vested in me under or by
virtue of the said Act, do hereby declare and
fix the rate of postage, and the time at which
the same shall be paid, in the Schedule to
this Proclamation annexed.
I do appoint and declare that this
Proclamation shall take effect on and after
the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
Given under my hand at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of the
Colony, this Sixteenth day of
June, one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-four.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
WILLIAM FOX.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SCHEDULE.
Letters sent to or by Militiamen or
Volunteers engaged "in the field on active
service," will be transmitted within the
Colony at a charge of One Penny each letter,
provided that the following regulations are
observed :-
-
Each letter must not exceed half an
ounce in weight. -
The name of the Militiaman or Volun-
teer, his class or description, and the
name of the vessel, regiment, or corps,
or detachment to which he belongs must be
specified in the direction of a letter sent to
such Militiaman or Volunteer. In the case
of letters sent by Militiamen or Volunteers,
the officer in command must sign his name
on the envelope, and specify his rank, and
the name of the vessel, regiment, corps, or
detachment which he commands. -
Every letter from or to a Militiaman
or Volunteer posted in the Colony which does
not comply with the foregoing regulations
will be treated as an ordinary letter.
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NZ Gazette 1864, No 23
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🚂 Proclamation fixing inland postage rate for active service Militiamen and Volunteers
🚂 Transport & Communications16 June 1864
Postage rates, Proclamation, Militiamen, Volunteers, active service, Post Office Act 1858
- Sir George Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- William Fox