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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 713, 12 February 1853, Page 4

i®oiiernment ®a?ctte. PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. WHEREAS, by an Act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, c. 72, intituled “ An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is enacted that the said Act shall be Proclaimed in New Zealand by the Governor thereof within six weeks after a copy of such Act shall have been received by such Governor, and, save as therein expressly provided, shall take effect in New Zealand from the day of such Proclamation thereof; Now, therefore, 1, the Governor-in-Chief, do Proclaim and Declare that I have received a copy of the said in part recited Act. And 1 do further Proclaim and Declare that this Proclamation and the said in part recited Act shall take effect and come into operation within New Zealand upon and from the date hereof. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand,atGovernment House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this Seventeenth day of January, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. G. GREY, Governor-in-Chief. By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. God Save the Queen ! CAP. LXXII. AN ACT TO GRANT A REPRESENTATIVE CONSTITUTION TO THE COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND. [3oth June, 1852.] WHEREAS by an Act of 3&4Vict. the Session holden in the c * 62> Third and Fourth Years of Pier Majesty, Chapter Sixty-two, it was enacted that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent, to be from time to time issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to erect into a separate Colony or Colonies any Islands which then were or which thereafter might be comprised within and be Dependencies of the Colony of New South Wales: And whereas, in pursuance of the Powers in Her vested by the said Act, Her Majesty did, by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing Date the Sixteenth day of November in the Fourth Year of Pier Reign, erect into a separate Colony the Islands of New Zealand , theretofore comprised within or Dependencies of the Colony of New South Wales, bounded as therein described, and the said Islands of New Zealand were thereby erected into a separate Colony accordingly ; and Her Majesty did by the said Letters Patent authorize the Governor for the time being of the said Colony of New Zealand and certain other Persons to be a Legislative Council for such Colony, and to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government thereof: And whereas by an Act of the Ses- 9&iovict. sion holden in the Ninth and c * lc)3 * Tenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and three, the Act firstly herein recited, and all Charters, Letters Patent, Instructions, and Orders in Council made and issued in pursuance thereof, were repealed, abrogated, and annulled, so far as the same were repugnant to the Act now in recital, or any Letters Patent, Charters, Orders in Council, or Royal Instructions to be issued under the authority thereof; and by the Act now in recital certain Powers for the Government of the said Islands were vested in Her Majesty, to be executed by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, or by Instructions under Her Majesty’s Signet and Sign Manual, approved in Her Privy Council, and accompanying or referred to in such Letters Patent: And whereas, in pursuance of the said last mentioned Act, Her Majesty did, by Letters Patent bearing Date at Westminster the Twenty-third Day of December in the Tenth Year of Her Reign, and by certain Instructions made and approved as required by such Act, and bearing even Date with and accompanying the said Letters Patent, execute certain of the Powers by such Act vested in Her Majesty for the better Government of the said Islands: And whereas by an Act of the Session holden in the Eleventh 11 &12 Vicf. and Twelfth Years of Her c - 5 * Majesty, Chapter Five, so much of the said Act secondly herein recited, and the said Letters Patent and Instructions issued in pursuance thereof, as relates to the Constitution and Establishment of Two or more separate Assemblies within the said Islands, and of a General Assembly in and for the said Islands, was suspended for Five Years, unless Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, should direct the same to bo carried into effect before the expiration of that Period ; and by the Act now in recital the said firstly-recited Act, Letters Patent, and Instructions were revived for the Time during which the said secondly-recited Act, Letters Patent, and Instructions were suspended as aforesaid; And by the Act now in recital certain Powers were vested respectively in the Govcrnor-in-Chicf of the said Islands and in such Governor and the Legislative Council thereof: and whereas it is expedient that further and better Provision should bo made for the Government of New Zealand :" Be it therefore enacted by the Queer’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-