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ence in all things as is fitting to you the said Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Military order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand and the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the said Colony for the time being, and the person executing the duties of that office, and to your Deputy whomsoever and to all other officers (by you appointed or to be appointed) of our said Vice-Admiralty in our Colony of New Zealand aforesaid, and Territories thereunto belonging and Maritime parts of the same and thereto adjoining under pain of the Law and the Peril which will fall thereon. Given at London in the High Court of Our Admiralty of England aforesaid under the Great Seal thereof, the Seventeenth day of February in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five and of our Reign the Eighteenth. (Signed) H. Rot her y , L.S. Registrar.