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PROCLAMATION.

By JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the
Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed in
the eighth year of the reign of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria, by the Governor of
New Zealand, with the advice and consent of
the then Legislative Council thereof, intituled
"An Ordinance to empower owners and occu-
piers of land within certain Districts to repair
and maintain Highways and Public Works
within the same, and to make and levy rates
for defraying the expenses thereof," it was
enacted that if the major part of the persons
qualified to become electors, in the manner in
the said Ordinance mentioned within any
District, should apply in writing to His Ex-
cellency the Governor, distinctly setting forth
the boundaries of such District, and requesting
that the same might be declared to be a Dis-
trict within the provisions of the said Ordinance,
His Excellency might by Proclamation declare
the same to be such District, and by such
Proclamation should prescribe a period within
which all claims to the right of voting at the
election of the first and every succeeding Board
of Commissioners for such District should be
made. And whereas by an Act passed by the
Superintendent of the Province of Auckland,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial
Council thereof, intituled "An Act to transfer
certain powers and duties from the Governor
and Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand to
the Superintendent and the Provincial Trea-
surer of the Province of Auckland respec-
tively," it was amongst other things enacted
that all the acts authorized or required to be
performed by and all the powers given to the
said Governor by the said recited Ordinance
should thenceforth cease to be performed by
the said Governor, and should and might
thereafter be performed and exercised as fully
and effectually for all intents and purposes
within the Province of Auckland by the
Superintendent thereof as the same could
before the passing of the said Act be done
and exercised by the said Governor: And
whereas the major part of the persons
entitled to become Electors within the District
hereinafter set forth have applied to me in
manner in the said Ordinance directed, to
declare the same to be a District within the
provisions of the said Ordinance:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said
powers and authents in me vested, I, the
said Superintendent, do hereby proclaim and
declare that all those lands comprised within
and known as lots Nos 40, 43, 55, and 56,
situated in the Parish of Opaheke, also that
portion of lot 41 in the same Parish lying
South of a line from the bridge over the Tui-
mata river to the south-west angle of lot 57
of the Parish of Karaka, also lot 81 in the
Parish of Karaka, and lots 1, 2, 5, 7, 6, 8,
20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,
36, and 37 in the Parish of Pukekohe, all in
the County of Eden, including all roads tra-
versing and lying between the lots before
mentioned, shall form a District within the
provisions of the said Ordinance, to be called
the District of Pukekohe, and that the period
within which all claims to the right of voting
at the election of the first and every succeed-
ing Board of Commissioners for such District
shall be made, shall be between the first and
the thirty-first day of October in each and
every year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland,
this twenty-sixth day of August
One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
Auckland, 2nd September, 1861.

THE following "Warrant" is published for
general information.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

Warrant Delegating to the Superintendent
of Auckland the Governor's power to
appoint Returning Officers, &c.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Ma-
jesty's Colony of New Zealand
and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "Provincial Elections
Act, 1858," the Governor is em-
powered to delegate to the Superintendent of
any Province the power of appointing and
removing Returning Officers, and also of ap-
pointing and establishing Polling Places for
the election of the Superintendent or of
Members of the Provincial Council of such
Province, Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore
Browne, the Governor of the said Colony of
New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the said power and authority, do hereby dele-
gate to JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esquire, the Super-
intendent of the Province of Auckland in the
said Colony, the above recited powers, to be
held and exercised by him from time to time
as he shall think fit, so long as he shall hold
the said office of Superintendent.

Given under my hand at the
Government House at Auck-
land, this twenty-sixth day
of August, in the year of our
Lord, One thousand, eight
hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE.

By His Excellency's command.
WILLIAM FOX.