[PROCLAMATION]

WHEREAS power is vested in the Governor of New Zealand by Proclamation to declare any House, Building, Enclosure, or Place to be a Public Gaol:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid, do hereby declare and Proclaim that all those Stone, Wood, and Iron Buildings fronting Stuart-street, and situate on Reserve No. 3, in the City of Dunedin, shall be and be used as a Public Gaol.

Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this twenty-third 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!

PROCLAMATION

Disallowing certain Otago Provincial Ordinances.

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.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament, holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent, as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him, to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation, or if they subsequent date to be named therein:

And whereas the Ordinances hereinafter specified have been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago; with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinances were received by the Government of the Second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinances should be disallowed:

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinances, passed by the Superintendent and the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, viz:—

"The Executive Council Ordinance, 1863."

"Sunday Observance Ordinance, 1862."

"The Dunedin Municipal Estate Ordinance, 1862."

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

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

God Save The Queen!

Bill assented to, Otago.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 21st February, 1863.

THE following Bill passed by the Provincial Council of Otago, entitled,

"The Miners’ Provincial Representation Ordinance, 1862,"

which Bill was reserved for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon, having been laid before the Governor, His Excellency has been pleased to assent to the same.

Alfred Domett.

Ordinances left to their operation, Otago.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 21st Feb., 1863.

THE following Ordinances passed by the Provincial Council of Otago, initially—