✨ Government Proclamations and Notices
AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. VI.] AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1857. [No. 16.
PROCLAMATION.
By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of the Province, and such times for holding the first and every other Session of the Provincial Council as he may think fit.
Now, therefore, pursuant to the authority in me vested in that behalf, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, do hereby proclaim and declare that the seventh Session of the Provincial Council shall be held at Auckland, and shall commence on Monday, the 17th day of August, 1857; and the Members of the said Council are hereby warned to give their attendance at the said time and place accordingly.
Given under my hand at Auckland, this 24th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.
N O T I C E.
Province of Auckland,\n} to wit.
WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of John Williamson, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, hath been directed to me, Thomas Beckham, Esquire, Returning Officer for the District of the Suburbs of Auckland, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected by and from amongst the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and in form by law prescribed, one person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the Suburbs of Auckland, in place of William Crush Daldy, Esquire, resigned. Now, therefore, I, the said Thomas Beckham, Esquire, Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a Public Meeting of the Electors of the Suburbs of Auckland will be held at the Supreme Court House, Auckland, on Friday, the seventh day of August, at noon, for the purpose of Nominating one Person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council as aforesaid for the Suburbs of Auckland. And in the event of a Poll being demanded for the Candidates, or any of them, such Polling shall take place on the following day, the eighth of August, at such Supreme Court House aforesaid, the voting to commence at any time after nine o’clock of the said day, and to close at four o’clock of the afternoon of the same day.
THOMAS BECKHAM,
Returning Officer.
Auckland, July 24, 1857.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1857, No 16
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🏘️ Proclamation for Provincial Council Session
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 July 1857
Provincial Council, Session, Auckland
- John Williamson, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland
🏘️ Notice of Election for Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 July 1857
Election, Provincial Council, Suburbs of Auckland
- William Crush Daldy (Esquire), Resigned as Member of the Provincial Council
- Thomas Beckham, Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland