✨ Governor's Prorogation Proclamation
Numb. 49.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1877.(L.S.) Meeting of the General Assembly.
NORMANBY, Governor.
To the LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS of the Colony of NEW ZEALAND, and
the MEMBERS elected to serve in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
of the said Colony, summoned and called to a Meeting of the
General Assembly of the said Colony, at the City of Wellington,
on the fifteenth day of the month of June next to have been
commenced and held, and to every of you—GREETING:
A PROCLAMATION.WHEREAS the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the
Fifteenth day of June next: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considera-
tions, I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the nineteenth
day of the Month of July next, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said
fifteenth day of June next, at the City of Wellington, are to be held constrained to
appear, commanding and by the tenor of these presents enjoining you and each of
you, and all others in this behalf interested, that on THURSDAY, the NINETEENTH
day of the Month of JULY next, personally you be and appear, for the DESPATCH OF
BUSINESS, at Two o'clock in the afternoon, in the Parliament Houses, situate in
Molesworth Street, in the City of Wellington, there to take into consideration the
state and welfare of the said Colony of New Zealand, and therein to do as may seem
necessary.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable
GEORGE AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of
Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the
County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Com-
mander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over
Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of
the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this
fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
*H. A. ATKINSON.*Printed under authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1877, No 49
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🏛️ Proclamation Proroguing General Assembly to July 19, 1877
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 June 1877
Proclamation, Governor, General Assembly, Prorogation, Parliament, Wellington
- Marquis of Normanby, Governor
- H. A. Atkinson