WHEREAS by tbe “ Naturalization Act, 1862,” it is enacted that every person who shall be declared to come within the operation of that Act by any Proclamation to be issued in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor shall as from the time in such Proclamation specified, be deemed and taken until the termination of the next Session of the General Assembly to bo and to have been from such specified time a natural born subject of Her Majesty within the Colony ot New Zealand, as fully to all Intents and purposes, as if his name had been inserted in the Schedule to that Act annexed. Provided always that every such Proclamation shall contain the description, occupation or calling, of every person therein named, and his place of residence at the date of such Proclamation. Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the power and authority in mo vested by the said Act, do hereby proclaim and declare that the person hereinafter mentioned shall come within the operation of the said Act, from the date hereinafter specified, viz. : John Christian, From the fourteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, Native of Denmark, Seaman, residence Christchurch in the Province of Canterbury. Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this thirty-first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. G. Grey. By His Excellency’s command, F. D. Bell. God save the Queen ! WARRANT. By His Excellency Sir Ggorge Grey, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL come, Greeting:— WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieut.-Governor and Comrnander-in-Chief of the Colony of New Zealand, intituled “An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,” Sess, YII., No. 7, the Governor is empowered from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit, touching the duties of the officers of any pub lie Gaol—the classification, diet, instruction, treatment, and correction of the prisoners therein, and generally to prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the good discipline of any public Gaol, and the safe custody of the prisoners therein. And whereas, by an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony, Intituled “ The Secondary Punishment Act, 1854,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet for the employment, safe custody, management, and discipline of the convicts under sentence of penal servitude, and to enforce the observance ot such rules and regulations by solitary confinement as in the said Act provided, and by such other prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf; Provided always that no rule or regulation awarding any such punishment as aforesaid shall come into operation until a copy thereof shall have been first published in the Government Gazette. Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, under and by virtue of the provisions In the said Ordinance and Act respectively contained, do hereby make the following regulations for the purposes hereinbefore recited, and do publish the same to be in force within the Province of Hawke’s Bay. As witness rny hand this 4th day of November, 1862. G. Grey. By His Excellency’s command, F. D. Bell, In tho absence of Mr. Domett. RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE GAOL AT NAPIER. 1. Every prisoner on entering the Goal is to be searched in the presence of the Gaoler or Turnkey. His name, age, country, religion, height, and general description are to be entered in a register, in which shall also at the same time be entered whether or not he can read or write. 2. All money, property, and effects, are to be taken from the prisoner on entering the Gaol; a minute specifying the particulars and signed by the Gaoler is to be entered in the register. Such property shall remain in the custody of the Gaoler until the discharge of the prisoner, unless other disposition thereof shall be ordered or permitted by competent authority. 3. All prisoners sentenced for a longer period than one week shall have their hair cut close on entering the Gaol, 4. Prisoners sentenced for a less period than one week shall have their hair cut close if it shall bo found necessary for the purpose of cleanliness. 5. Every cell is to be opened at 6 a.m. from the first day of October to the first day of April, and at daylight during the remainder of the year. 6. Fifteen minutes arc to" be allowed for dressing. 7. The cells shall then be swept and dusted. % The bedding (weather permitting) shall be sus- / “tided in the airing yard and afterwards put / Av and folded in the smallest compass. This f liescrippiall be performed by such of tho prisoners at most reasotc told off’ for that purpose. .ce: Wclleslcy-t inerg s hall then wash themselves nurch ‘ and make themselves as clean as p -p u a wenv .in ners shall then ,be assembled I. E. ivA 1 oa llcd over, after which prayers •st Gold Medalist Chthe Gaoler or such other perOf King’s College, JiierilF or Visiting Justices may ATE SURGEON TO THE T , u volunti of the prisoners from NEAR THE WINDM II assembled and their names HENRY M ANCII E S J>Jti ,r . _ . s > t0 s °b by ao er ‘ the purchase ol all c Lite, r shire, and Scotch AN OF PORT ALB October to the * m the KaW or labour shall bo - divldcJ 1,1 ?to (I p.m.; from the ~eso ftlFrtiie first day ot October nist 1c
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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1740, 8 November 1862, Page 6
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