✨ Provincial Government Proclamation
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.
VOL. IV.] TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1861. [No. 131.
PROCLAMATION,
By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW,
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, entituled "An Ordinance to Empower the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to perform
certain acts heretofore performed by the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of New
Zealand, and by the Resident Magistrate of
Otago; it is provided that all such powers as
are conferred by the Ordinance enumerated
in the schedule thereto appended upon the
Governor-in-Chief, Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor, 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 Ordinance
aforesaid is included in the said schedule:
And whereas there is no suitable accommodation for Debtors within the present Gaol
Buildings at Dunedin, and it is expedient that
proper provision shall be made in that behalf:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby
proclaim and declare that Carisbrook House
shall be deemed and taken to be one of the
Public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand,
until proper provision is made otherwise in
that behalf.
Given under my hand and seal, at
Dunedin, in the Province of
(L.S.) Otago, this twenty-eighth day
of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.
Printed for the Provincial Government, by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1861, No 131
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⚖️ Proclamation declaring Carisbrook House a Public Gaol
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement28 January 1861
Proclamation, Gaol, Prison, Dunedin, Carisbrook House, Debtors
- James Macandrew, Superintendent