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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 425, 29 August 1849, Page 4

PROCLAMATON. By His Excellency Sir George Grey, X.C.8., Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c, &c, &c. T^7"HEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament holden in the sth and 6th years of the reign of, Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for regulating the carriage of passengers in Merchant vessels :" And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 10th and 11th years of the reign of Her; present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Passengers' Act, and to make further provision for the carriage of Passengers by Sea :" And whereas by the Act first hereinbefore referred to it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor of any Britishcolony, other than the British West Indies, to declare by Proclamation that the said Act shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from such colony to such places as may by him be named for the purpose in such Proclamation ; and that thereupon the said Act shall be thenceforth so extended and shall so apply accordingly : Now, therefore, I, the said Gover-nor-in-Chief, by virtue of the authority in me for that purpose vested as aforesaid, do hereby pi-oclaim and declare that the said recited Acts of Parliament shall be extended and shall apply to the carriage of passengers by sea from the said Colony of New Zealand to all Ports and places lying between ths 70th and 175 th degree of longitude west of Greenwich. And whereas by the said first , recited Act it is further enacted that it shall , be lawful for the Governor of any such Co • lony as aforesaid, by Proclamation, to de- ' clare the rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying passengers from such colony to any other place shall be estimated for the purposes of i the said Act : Now, therefore, 1, the said Governor-in-Chief, pursuant to such au- ! thority as aforesaid, do hereby further pro- ' claim and declare that "the number of weeks deemed to be necessary for the voyage of any such ship shall be as follows, that is to say: — For a voyage to any Islands "1 Ffve wegks in the Pacific Ocean . . . . / For a voyage to any place on 1 the coast of North or South > Nine weeks. America J-^ Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Auck(L.S) land, in the Province of New Ulster, this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. G. Grey, Governor. By His Excellency's Command, C. A. DiiiLON, Civil Secretary. God Save the Queen !