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PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor DONALD M’LEAN, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, in the Islands of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Wellington, No. 8 of Session No. 3, intituled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Cattle Trespass and Impounding,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclamation, to declare certain Districts to be Pastoral Districts, and that the said Act, or any clauses thereof which he may specify, shall not apply therein, and at any time to declare that such Districts have ceased to be Pastoral and come within the full operation of the said Act: And whereas, by a Proclamation under the hand of Isaac Earl Featherston, Superintendent of the Province, and dated the 3rd day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, the said Isaac Earl Featherston did declare and proclaim, amongst other things, that a certain District in the said Proclamation described as the portion of the Province of Wellington, lying between the Ruahine and Taraua mountains and the Coast Eastwise, excepting, amongst other places, the Town and Township of Napier, should be a Pastoral District, and that certain clauses of the said Act therein specified should not apply therein: And whereas the said recited Act hath been amended by a certain Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Hawke’s Bay, No. 8 of Session No. 8, intituled “An Act to amend an Act intituled ‘An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Cattle Trespass and Impounding, Session 3 No. 8 of the Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington.’”

And whereas it is expedient to declare that so much of the said District specified in the Proclamation hereinbefore recited, forming a portion of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, as the same is specified and described in the Schedule hereunder, shall cease as, from the date hereof, to be a Pastoral District, and shall come within the operation of the said Acts.

Now, therefore, I, Donald M’Lean, Superintendent of the Province of Hawke’s Bay, Do hereby proclaim and declare that all the District specified and described in the Schedule hereunder written shall cease to be a Pastoral District, and shall come within the operation of the said Act No. 8 of Session No. 3 of the Province of Wellington, as amended by an Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Hawke’s Bay, No. 8 of Session No. 8, intituled “An Act to amend an Act intituled ‘An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Cattle Trespass and Impounding, Session 3 No. 8 of the Provincial Council of the Province of Wellington.’”

Given under my hand and seal this eighth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

North-west and North-east, the Mohaka River; South-east, the sea; South, the Waikari River.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, August 8, 1865.

THE following appointment made by His Honor the Superintendent, is hereby notified for general information.

ALEXANDER KENNEDY, Esq., M.P.C.,
to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Province of Hawke’s Bay.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, August 8, 1865.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED for general information that a Writ for the election of one Member to serve in the Provincial Council of Hawke’s Bay for the Town of Napier having been issued in accordance with clause 12 of “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” the Returning Officer has returned the said Writ with a certificate that the undermentioned gentleman has been duly elected to serve as a member of the said Provincial Council for the said Town of Napier.

WILLIAM COLENSO, Esq., of Napier.

DONALD M’LEAN,
Superintendent.