Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

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Auckland

and which is particularly defined and described in the Schedule marked A. hereunto annexed, shall constitute a Municipal District, and shall be called the "Borough of Auckland."

2. The said Borough, for the purpose of the election of the governing body thereof, shall be divided into Fourteen Wards, to be named as follows; the Boundaries of the said Wards being particularly set forth and described in the Schedule marked B, and delineated on the Map or Plan respectively hereunto annexed:

The town of Auckland shall be divided into three Wards, to be called respectively—

1. East Ward.
2. Middle Ward.
3. West Ward.

The Suburbs of the Town of Auckland shall also be divided into three Wards, to be called respectively—

4. Suburban East.
5. Suburban South.
6. Suburban West.

Each of the Pensioner Settlements, with the land adjacent thereto, shall be and constitute a Ward, to be respectively called—

7. Onehunga Ward.
8. Panmure Ward.
9. Otahuhu Ward.
10. Howick Ward.

The Epsom District, and the country adjacent thereto, shall be divided into two Wards, to be called respectively—

11. Epsom East Ward.
12. Epsom West Ward.

So much of the Hundred of Panmure as lies to the northward of the road leading to Point England, shall form a Ward, and shall be called—

13. Tamaki West Ward.

And so much of the said Borough of Auckland as lies to the Eastward of the Tamaki (exclusive of Howick Ward) shall form a Ward, and shall be called—

14. Tamaki East Ward.

15. Provided always, That no Dockyard, Victualling Establishment, Arsenal, or Barracks belonging to Her Majesty, which shall be situated within the limits of the said Borough, shall be deemed to be part of such Borough for any of the purposes herein, or in the said recited Act or "Instructions," mentioned: And provided also, that no land not comprised within a grant from the Crown shall be liable to be taxed in aid of the Funds of the said Borough by the Common Council thereof.

16. The Town of Auckland shall be the Capital of the said Borough.

17. The inhabitants of the said Borough shall be a Body Corporate in name and in deed, with perpetual succession and a Common Seal, and shall bear the style and title of "The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Auckland."

18. *Such Corporation shall consist of a Mayor, of a Court of Aldermen, and of a Common Council, for the government thereof, and of the Burgesses possessing the Elective Franchise therein.

(The clauses marked thus () form part of the provisions in the Royal Instructions above referred to.)

7. *The Common Council of the said Borough shall consist of the Mayor, the Aldermen, and the Common Councillors thereof for the time being.

8. *For the said Borough there shall be Fourteen Common Councillors, to be elected in manner hereinafter provided.

9. *The Burgesses of the said Borough shall annually elect the Common Councillors thereof, to serve for the year then next ensuing, and the Common Councillors of such Borough, when so elected, shall annually choose from their own number the Aldermen and the Mayor thereof, to serve for the year next ensuing such choice.

10. The number of persons to be chosen Aldermen, as aforesaid, shall be four.

QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS, AND THE MODE OF ELECTION.

11. *Subject to the exceptions afterwards mentioned, every male person who, on the first of January in each successive year, shall be in the occupation of any tenement within the said Borough, of which he shall have been the occupier for six months at the least next immediately preceding that day, shall, during the next ensuing twelve calendar months, be a Burgess of the said Borough.

12. *But this Franchise shall not belong to, or be vested in, any Alien, nor in any person of unsound mind, nor in any person who may at any time theretofore have been convicted of any Felony, or other infamous crime, nor in any person who has, during the last preceding six months, been maintained wholly or in part by Public Alms, nor in any person who may be in arrear for more than six months in respect of any rates or assessments lawfully payable by him to the funds of the said Borough in respect of any such tenement as aforesaid, or otherwise.

13. Provided always, that, except as last aforesaid, every male person who, on the first day of August, 1851, shall be in the occupation of any tenement within the said Borough, shall be deemed and taken to be a Burgess of the said Borough.

14. The Resident Magistrate for the time being acting for the town of Auckland, or some other fit person to be appointed in that behalf by the Governor, shall in the month of October next, and in the month of July in every succeeding year, call a special meeting of the Justices of the Peace residing within the said Borough, for the purpose of forming a list of the Burgesses thereof qualified as hereinbefore mentioned.

15. The Justices at such meeting (any two being a quorum) shall prepare a list of the persons who may be qualified to be Burgesses as hereinbefore provided, and shall set forth the Christian and Surname of each at full length, together with his place of abode, calling, or business, and arrange the names in alphabetical order, and class them for the several Wards for which they may be respectively entitled to vote.

16. The Resident Magistrate, or such other person as aforesaid, shall forthwith cause a copy of such Ward List to be posted in some conspicuous place in the Ward to which the said List shall relate; and shall subjoin thereto a Notice, that all claims to be added to such List, and all objections thereto, will be heard and determined at an adjourned meeting of the said Justices, open to the public, and to be held on a day to be specified in such notice, not being more than ten days after the date thereof.

17. The said Justices shall have power, at such meeting so to be open to the public as aforesaid, after hearing such objections, to strike out of the said List the names of all persons who may be found by them not to be so qualified as aforesaid; and also