✨ Proclamation of Public Gaol
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.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1859. [No. 79.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Cargill,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 7, intituled, "An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons," it is enacted that "it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by Proclamation, to declare any House, Building, Enclosure, or Place, to be a Public Gaol: and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation, such House, Building, Enclosure, or Place, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol."
And whereas, by another Ordinance enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice of the Provincial Council thereof, Session I., No. 6, intituled, "An Ordinance to empower the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to perform certain acts heretofore performed by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governors of New Zealand, and by the Resident Magistrate of Otago," it is provided that all such powers as are conferred by the Ordinances enumerated in the Schedule thereto appended, upon "the Governor-in-Chief, Governors, or the Officer administering the Government of the Colony or Province for the time being," are thereby, within the Province of Otago, conferred on the Superintendent thereof:"
And whereas the said first-mentioned Ordinance is included in the said Schedule: And whereas it is necessary that part of the Building intended for a Gaol, erected on the Government Reserve, west of Dee Street, Invercargill, in the said Province, should be proclaimed a Public Gaol of the Colony;
Now, therefore I, the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that the portion of the Building aforesaid, which is entered to by an inner door of the Building, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol of the Colony of New Zealand; and that the other portion of the said Building, which is entered to by the outer door thereof, is, until further proclamation, reserved to be used as a Lock-up House.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Government House, Dunedin, this twenty-second day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight.
W. CARGILL,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 79
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⚖️ Proclamation Declaring a Public Gaol
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement22 December 1858
Proclamation, Public Gaol, Invercargill, Prison Regulation
- W. Cargill, Superintendent of the Province of Otago