✨ Government Proclamation Disallowing Ordinance
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.
Published by Authority.
VOL. II.] NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1854. [No. 6.
Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, March 18th, 1854.
THE following Proclamation from the New Zealand Government Gazette is republished for general information.
By His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by an Act made and enacted in the 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 when any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent, as in the same recited 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 any subsequent day to be named therein,
And whereas an Ordinance hath been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, intituled "An Ordinance to authorise the raising of a loan for the purchase of Native Lands within the Province of New Plymouth," Session 1, No 4, and the said Ordinance was received by me on the eighteenth day of February, 1854.
And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinance should be disallowed,
Now, therefore, I, the Officer administering the Government 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 said recited Ordinance.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand at Auckland in the seventeenth day of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and on the twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
R. H. WYNYARD.
The Officer administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1854, No 6
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🏛️ Proclamation disallowing the New Plymouth Ordinance for raising a loan for the purchase of Native Lands
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration22 February 1854
Proclamation, Disallowance, Ordinance, New Plymouth, Native Lands, Loan
- Robert Henry Wynyard (Lieutenant-Colonel), Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand
- Robert Henry Wynyard, Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary