Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette – 1861 – No. 54

Page 109

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THE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

PROVINCE OF HAWKE\'S BAY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official
Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications
made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

J. C. LAMBTON CARTER,
Superintendent.

VOL. 2.] FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1861. [No 54.

Superintendent\'s Office,
Napier, Sept. 30, 1861.

HIS HONOR the Superintendent
has directed the following to be
published for general information.

G. T. FANNIN,
Superintendent\'s Clerk.

W A R R A N T

DELEGATING TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
HAWKE\'S BAY 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 Comman-
der-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty\'s Colony of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

WHEREAS by the "Provincial
Elections Act, 1858," the Go-
vernor is empowered to delegate to the
Superintendent of any Province the
power of appointing and removing Re-
turning Officers and also of appointing
and establishing Polling Places for the
election of the Superintendent or of
members of the Provincial Council of
such Province. NOW, THERE-
FORE, 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
delegate to John Chilton Lambton
Carter, Esquire, the Superintendent
of the Province of Hawke\'s Bay 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 Go-
vernment House at Auckland
this twenty-sixth day of
August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one.

T. GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency\'s command,
WILLIAM FOX.



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🏛️ Delegation of Governor's power to appoint Returning Officers and polling places

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
26 August 1861
Warrant, Provincial Elections Act, Returning Officers, Polling Places, Hawke's Bay
  • John Chilton Lambton Carter (Esquire), Superintendent of Hawke's Bay delegated powers

  • Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
  • William Fox, Colonial Secretary