Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 20

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✨ Government Proclamations and Notices

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

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.

CHARLES BROWN, Superintendent.

Vol. III. NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1855. [No. 20.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of the Colony 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 whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said 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 declare the non-liability of the Officers of the Provincial Government in respect of engagements entered into by them on behalf of the Provincial Government" Session 2, No. 12, and the said Ordinance was received by the Officer administering the Government on the thirtieth day of June, 1855.

And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinance should be disallowed, now therefore, I 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 said recited Ordinance:

Given under my hand and issued under the Public Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, at Auckland in the Colony aforesaid, in the nineteenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and on the fourteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand.

By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary

God save the Queen!

NOTICE is hereby given that the dedication to Public Use of the new roads advertised by Notice dated 3rd October

PDF — Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1855, No 20

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🏛️ Proclamation disallowing a Provincial Ordinance

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated14 September 1855
KeywordsProclamation, Disallowance, Provincial Ordinance, New Plymouth, Legislation
👩‍💼 Officials

Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand
Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary

🏗️ Notice regarding dedication of new roads

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
KeywordsRoads, Public Use, Dedication, Land

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