✨ Government Proclamation
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1857. [No. 60.]
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, September 28, 1857.
HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the re-publication of the following Proclamation and Notice from the New Zealand Government Gazette:
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.
PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 6, No. 1, intituled “An Ordinance to empower the Governor of New Zealand to regulate the Importation and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor from time to time by proclamation to prohibit, and also to make provision for regulating and restricting throughout the Colony of New Zealand the importation or sale, or both the importation and sale, of arms, gunpowder, and other warlike stores: And whereas it is expedient that the several regulations now in force in different parts of the said Colony should be superseded, and other provisions to be in force throughout the said Colony substituted for the same:
Now, THEREFORE, I, the Governor, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby prohibit throughout the said colony the importation and sale of arms, gunpowder, and other warlike stores, except in conformity with the regulations and restrictions following, that is to say:
- On and after the days on which this proclamation shall come into operation as hereinafter provided, no person shall import into or land in, the said colony, or shall sell, or otherwise dispose of therein, any arms, gunpowder, or other warlike stores, without having first obtained a licence for the purpose from the Governor, or some person authorised by him to grant the same, as hereinafter provided. Every warrant of appointment to grant such
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1857, No 60
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🏛️ Re-publication of Proclamation and Notice regarding Arms and Warlike Stores
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration28 September 1857
Proclamation, Arms, Gunpowder, Warlike Stores, Importation, Sale, Licensing
- W. Cargill, Superintendent
- John Logan, Clerk to Superintendent
🏛️ Proclamation by Governor Thomas Gore Browne on Arms and Warlike Stores
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationGovernor, Proclamation, Arms, Gunpowder, Warlike Stores, Regulation, Licensing
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand