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THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
OF THE
PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette with any Official Signature hereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
A. P. SEYMOUR,
Superintendent.
VOL. VI.] MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1865. [No. 1084.
WARRANT APPOINTING A POLLING PLACE IN PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.
By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:—
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly intituled “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Warrant under his hand, from time to time, to appoint polling places for each electoral district within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, or all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof: And whereas by another Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Provincial Elections Act, 1858,” it is enacted that, subject to certain provisions therein contained, every election of the Superintendent or of a Member of the Provincial Council of a Province shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by “The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858,” aforesaid, and all the provisions of the said last-mentioned Act shall apply to the elections of Superintendents and Members of the Provincial Councils.
Now know ye, that I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Acts, do hereby appoint the following place to be an additional polling place for the districts of Pelorus, for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Marlborough, namely—
The Court House at Deep Creek.
Given under my hand, at Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
By His Excellency’s command,
G. GREY.
J. C. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.
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Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1865, No 108A
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🏛️ Appointment of Additional Polling Place
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration18 August 1865
Polling place, Pelorus, Deep Creek, Elections Act
- Sir George Grey, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- J. C. Richmond, Colonial Secretary