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shall be those particularly set forth and
described in the schedule hereunto an-
nexed.

4. The Provincial Council shall con-
   sist of 26 members, and the number of
   members to be elected for each of the
   said several districts shall be as follows:

5. For the town of Christchurch,
   four members

6. For the town of Lyttelton, four
   members

7. For the Kaiapoi District, two
   members

8. For the Avon District, four mem-
   bers

9. For the Heathcote District, four
   members

10. For Port Victoria District, two
    members

11. For the Akaroa District, "three
    members

12. For the Ashley District, one mem-
    ber

13. For the Rakaia District, one
    member

14. For the Timaru district, one
    member

15. The Superintendent shall, immedi-
    ately upon the coming into operation of
    this Ordinance, and from time thereafter
    as occasion may require, appoint some fit
    person to be the Returning-Officer within
    each of the districts hereby constituted.

16. The Superintendent shall, immedi-
    ately upon the coming into operation of
    this Ordinance, publicly notify in the Go-
    vernment Gazette of the Province, the
    place or places at which all persons claim-
    ing a right to vote for the election of the
    Superintendent or of the members of the
    Provincial Council, shall deliver their
    claims, or cause the same to be delivered;
    and from time to time, as occasion
    may require, by a similar notification
    alter such place or places and appoint
    other or additional places for the same
    purpose. And shall in such notice, appoint
    some day, being not later than thirty days
    after the date thereof, npon or before
    which all claims to vote, shall be deliver-
    ed as aforesaid. And the list of claims
    shall be made up and published as pro-
    vided by the said recited Proclamation,
    within thirty days after such day so noti-
    fied: Provided that the Superintendent
    may, if he shall think fit, appoint some
    person to act instead of the Resident
    Magistrates in making up, and publishing
    such lists. And in every succeeding year
    the Electoral Rolls shall have been
    so prepared, applications of persons claim-
    ing to vote shall be sent in and published,
    and such Electoral Rolls shall be made
    up at the times severaly appointed in the
    said recited Proclamation.

17. There shall be a Revising-Officer for
    each District, who shall be appointed by
    the Superintendent, and shall perform all
    the duties, and exercise all the powers re-
    lating to the revision of the lists of claims
    and electoral rolls, and to the hearing and
    determining of objections, and appointing
    the time and place for such hearing, and
    to the preparation of the electoral rolls,
    which by the said recited proclamation are
    directed to be performed or exercised by
    the Resident Magistrate, or by the Justices
    of the Peace within such district in a special
    meeting assembled, anything in the said
    recited proclamation to the contrary not-
    withstanding: and the said Revising Officer
    is hereby empowered to take evidence
    upon oath.

18. And whereas it is directed in the said
    Proclamation that any person objecting to
    any other person as not entitled to have his
    name on the electoral roll, shall, ten days
    at least before the day appointed for the
    formation of the electoral roll, cause notice
    in writing of such objection, and of the
    ground thereof to be given to the Resi-
    dent Magistrate, or other person acting for
    the District, and also to the person ob-
    jected to; Be it enacted, -that such
    notice may be given by delivering the same
    to the wife, or servant, or to some adult
    inmate of the family of such person, at his
    usual place of abode, and explaining the
    purport thereof to such wife, servant, or in-
    mate; or by leaving the same at the last
    known place of abode of such person within
    the Province, or in case any person other
    than the elector claiming to be registered
    shall have put in the claim, then such
    notice may be served on such person in
    the manner above described.

19. This Ordinance shall come into opera-
    tion on the day on which it shall receive
    the Governor's assent.

20. This Ordinance shall be entituled,
    and may be cited as the "Provincial
    Council Extension Ordinance," Sess. VIII,
    No. 8.

SCHEDULE.
Boundaries of Electoral Districts.

1. The town of Christchurch district
   comprises the site of the town of Christ-
   church, together with all the adjacent
   reserves lying between the said town and
   rural Sections fronting upon such reserves.

2. The town of Lyttelton district com-
   prises the site of the town of Lyttelton, in-
   cluding the town reserve.

3. The Kaiapoi district comprises all
   that portion of the Province of Canter-
   bury, bounded on the north by the south
   bank of the River Ashley, on the south by
   the south bank of the River Courtenay
   and a line drawn from
   trig pole c 19 on the south bank of that
   river to trig. pole c 27, on the Sea coast,
   on the east by the Sea coast, and on the
   west by a line drawn due north and south
   through trig. pole c 29, on the south bank
   of the said River Courtenay.

4. The Avon district comprises all that
   portion of the Province bounded, on the
   north by the south boundary of the
   Kaiapoi district, on the east by the Sea
   coast, on the west by a line drawn due
   north and south through trig pole c 59 on
   the south bank of the river Courtenay, and
   on the south by the north bank of the
   river Avon from its mouth to the point
   where it meets the boundary of the town