Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

to, the execution of all or any of the objects aforesaid.

12. For determining the Amount of the Salaries or other remunerations to be assigned to any officers of such Borough.

13. For imposing Fines for the breach or neglect of any such Bye-Laws as aforesaid.

and of the several matters in respect whereof such sums shall have been received and paid, and all such accounts with all vouchers and papers relating thereto,
together with a full abstract or Balance Sheet thereof, shall yearly, at such time as the Council may appoint,
be submitted by such Treasurer to Auditors to be appointed in that behalf, and to such Members of the Council as the Mayor shall name for the purpose
of examining and auditing the same. And such abstract or Balance Sheet if found correct, shall be signed by the Auditors, and shall be forthwith published by the Treasurer in one of the newspapers of the Borough.

58. *All Bye-Laws of such Borough shall be made, and all other Corporate Acts of such Corporation, shall be done by the Common Council thereof, by the authority and in the presence of whom, and not otherwise, the Common Seal of the said Borough shall be attached to any such Acts.

59. *If any such Bye-Law shall be repugnant to any Law or Ordinance of the General Legislature of New Zealand, or of the Legislature of the Province, such Bye-Law shall be null and void.

60. *No such Bye-Law shall take effect within the said Borough, or shall have the force and effect of law therein, unless the same shall have been approved by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand.

61. No such Bye-Law shall come into operation until it shall have received the assent of the Governor, and until the expiration of one calendar month after a copy thereof, accompanied by the signification of such assent shall have been published in the Government Gazette.

62. It shall be lawful for the said Council from time to time to appoint fit persons (not being Members of the Council) to be Town Clerk and Treasurer, who shall hold their respective offices during pleasure, and to pay such officers such salaries to be sanctioned by the Governor, as the said Council shall deem reasonable.

V.—MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.

63. All Acts whatsoever authorised or required to be done by the Common Council of the said Borough, and all questions that may come before such Council shall be done and decided by the majority of the Members of the Council who shall be present at any meeting thereof, the whole number present at any such meeting not being less than one-half of the whole Council.

64. The Mayor shall have power to call a meeting of the said Council as often as he shall think proper.

65. The Mayor shall cause a Notice of the time and place of every such intended meeting, specifying the business proposed to be transacted thereat, and signed by him, to be left at the usual place of abode of every Member of the Council, which Notice shall be given three clear days at least before such meeting unless it shall appear to the Mayor that such delay in the holding of any such meeting would be attended with imminent danger to the welfare of the Borough.

66. Every meeting of the Council shall be open to the Public.

67. *At every meeting of the Council the Mayor, or in his absence, some Alderman selected for that purpose by the meeting shall preside, and such presiding officer shall have both an original and a casting vote.

68. Minutes of the proceedings of every meeting shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be signed by the person presiding at such meeting.

69. Every Burgess shall be at liberty to inspect and make extracts from the book so to be kept at all reasonable times upon payment of a fee of one shilling for each inspection.

VI.—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

70. The Treasurer of the said Borough shall in books, to be kept by him for that purpose, enter true accounts of all sums of money by him received and paid,

71. In case no election shall be made of any such Mayor, Alderman, or Common Councillor upon the day, or within the time hereby, or by the said recited Instructions appointed for any such election, or such election being made shall afterwards become void, whether such omission or avoidance shall happen through the default of the Officer or Officers who ought to preside at such election or by any accident or other means whatsoever, the said Corporation shall not thereby be deemed or taken to be dissolved or disabled from electing such Mayor, Alderman, or Councillor for the future, but in any case where no such election shall be made as aforesaid, the election of any such Mayor, Alderman, or Councillor may be held or proceeded with upon the day next after the day on which such election ought to have been made, unless such day shall happen to be a Sunday, and then upon the Monday following.

72. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Proclamation the term Governor-in-Chief shall be taken to include the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province.

73. This Proclamation shall take effect from the day of the date hereof.

In testimony whereof, We have caused this Our Proclamation to be sealed with the Public Seal of Our Islands of New Zealand.

WITNESS Our Trusty and well-beloved
Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Our
Governor-in-Chief in and over Our
said Islands of New Zealand at
Government House, at Wellington,
in the Province of New Munster,
in the Islands aforesaid, this twenty-ninth day of July, in the fifteenth
year of Our Reign, and in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-one.

G. Grey,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's Command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

SCHEDULE A.

BOUNDARIES OF THE BOROUGH OF AUCKLAND.

The Northern Boundary runs from the eastern head of the Wao creek in an easterly direction along the south shore of the Waitemata harbour to the western head of the Tamaki river; thence by a direct line to the eastern head of the said river; thence by the sea shore in a south-easterly direction to the Mangamangaroa creek, including all land that may be reclaimed from the sea adjoining to and north of the above named boundary.

The Eastern Boundary runs along the middle of the Hundred's road from the Mangamangaroa creek to a road forming the northern boundary of Clendon's grant.

The Southern Boundary runs along the middle of the road forming the northern boundary of Clendon's grant, from its junction with the Hundred's road to its junction with the Manurewa road; thence by the middle of the Manurewa road.