✨ Proclamation of Naturalization
Numb. 9.
109
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1864.
A PROCLAMATION
For the Naturalization of certain Persons.
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.
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 proclama-
tion 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 descrip-
tion, 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
authority in me vested by the said Act, do
hereby proclaim and declare that the per-
sons hereinafter mentioned shall come
within the operation of the said Act, from
the dates hereinafter specified, viz. :-
VALENTIN BUCHLY,
from the first day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six, native of Switzer-
land, farmer; residence-Purakanui, in the
Province of Canterbury.
FREDRICH MAHNKE,
from the fifteenth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
native of Germany, labourer; residence-
Christchurch, in the Province of Canterbury.
CHARLES BRENTANI,
from the fifteenth day of January, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
native of Italy, settler; residence--Inver-
cargill, in the Province of Southland.
JOHN PETERSON,
from the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, native of
Sweden, carter; residence-Invercargill, in
the Province of Southland.
CHRISTIAN MYERS,
from the eighth day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,
native of Germany, brickmaker; residence
--Invercargill, in the Province of Southland.
JOHANN OTTEN,
from the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, native of
Hamburg, laborer; residence-Wills-street,
Wellington, in the Province of Wellington.
ADOLPH JULIUS SWANSON,
from the twenty-ninth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four,
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NZ Gazette 1864, No 9
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🏛️ Proclamation declaring certain persons naturalized under the Act of 1861
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration12 March 1864
Naturalization, Proclamation, Governor, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Farmer, Labourer
7 names identified
- VALENTIN BUCHLY, Declared naturalized March 1856
- FREDRICH MAHNKE, Declared naturalized January 1863
- CHARLES BRENTANI, Declared naturalized January 1861
- JOHN PETERSON, Declared naturalized January 1861
- CHRISTIAN MYERS, Declared naturalized August 1862
- JOHANN OTTEN, Declared naturalized January 1863
- ADOLPH JULIUS SWANSON, Declared naturalized February 1864
- Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief