[From the Government Gazette, February 26.] PROCLAMATION.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 791, 2 March 1853, Page 4

[From the Government Gazette, February 26.] PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir George Gret, a Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Gover-nor-in-Chief and Commander-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. WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII, No. ! 7, intituled " An Ordinance for tbe Regulation of Prisons," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet by Proclamation, to declare any House, Building, Enclosure or Place to be a Public Gaol, and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation such House, Building, Enclosure or Place, shall be-deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol. And Whereas it is desirable that the Building now used as a Lockup at the Police Station on Lambton Quay, in the Town of Wellington, in the Province of New Munster. should be proclaimed to be a Public Gaol of the Colony. . Now, therefore, 1 the Governor -in-Chief of the Islands of New Zealand, do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the Building aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be one of the Public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the (L.S.) Provinoe of New Munster, in the Islands aforesaid, this Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. G. Grey, <sovernor-in- Chief . By His Excellency's command, Alfred Domett, Civil Secretary. God Save the Queen.