Otago Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 229

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✨ Provincial Council Dissolution

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.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.

Vol. VI.] WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1863. [No. 229

A PROCLAMATION

For the Dissolution of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable 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., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” the several Provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago are thereby established, and it is enacted that for each of the said Provinces there shall be a Superintendent and Provincial Council:

And whereas by the said Act it is further enacted that every Provincial Council shall continue for the period of Four years from the day of return of the Writs for choosing the same and no longer: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand by Proclamation or otherwise to dissolve the same whenever he shall think it expedient so to do:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the said power, do by this Proclamation dissolve the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago accordingly.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

VUW Te Waharoa — Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 229

The Otago Provincial Council sat in a number of buildings, including the Dunedin Stock Exchange (depicted) in Princes St

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🏛️ Proclamation Dissolving the Provincial Council of Otago

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated7 February 1863
KeywordsDissolution, Provincial Council, Otago, Proclamation
👩‍💼 Officials

Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
Alfred Domett

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