✨ Proclamation of Towns
THE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS HALL BAILLIE,
Superintendent.
Vol. III.] FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1862. [No. 37.]
PROCLAMATION
By His Honour William Douglas Hall Baillie, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand, &c.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Munster, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 1., No. 9, intituled “An Ordinance to increase the efficiency of the Constabulary Force;”
And whereas by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Nelson, Session I., No. 2, certain powers were vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Nelson;
And whereas under the powers and provisions of the said recited Ordinance, among others, the Constabulary Force Ordinance was brought into force in the said Province of Nelson;
And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the 21st and 22nd years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled the New Provinces Act, it was provided that all the powers vested in the Superintendent of the original province shall, within such new province, become vested in the Superintendent thereof;
And whereas requisitions have been made to the Superintendent of the said Province of Marlborough by the Magistrates acting for the districts in which the towns of Picton and Blenheim are situate, requesting that the said towns may be proclaimed as towns in which the provisions of this Ordinance shall be enforced:
Now, THEREFORE, I, William Douglas Hall Baillie, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, do hereby proclaim and constitute the town of Picton, as delineated on the plan of the said town in the Crown Lands Office, in the Province of Marlborough; and the town of Blenheim, the boundaries of which shall, for the purposes of this proclamation, be taken to consist of sections Nos. 46, 47, and 48, Opawa, and of sections Nos. 1, 3, 50, and 51, Omaka, as shown on the New Zealand Company’s plan of the Wairau Plain as towns within which any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be enforced.
Given under my hand, at Picton, this Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
W. D. H. BAILLIE,
Superintendent.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1862, No 37
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⚖️ Proclamation of Towns for Constabulary Force Enforcement
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement22 May 1862
Proclamation, Constabulary Force, Picton, Blenheim, Marlborough Province
- William Douglas Hall Baillie, Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough