✨ Provincial Council Proclamations and Election Results
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
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 may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. III. NELSON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1855. No. 17.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Honor EDWARD WILLIAM STAFFORD, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c.
WHEREAS, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province established by the said Act, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of the Province, and such times for holding any Session of the Provincial Council as he may think fit, and from time to time, in manner aforesaid, to alter and vary such times and places as he may judge advisable and most consistent with general convenience:
Now therefore I, the Superintendent of Nelson, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and appoint that the Provincial Council of Nelson shall meet at the Council Chamber, Nelson, on Monday, the Twenty-third day of January next, at One o'clock, p.m.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Seal of the Province, at Nelson, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
E. W. STAFFORD,
Superintendent.
By his Honor's command,
HENRY ADAMS,
Provincial Solicitor.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Provincial Secretary's Office,
Nelson, December 3, 1855.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified for general information, that a Writ for the election of a Member of the Provincial Council for the undermentioned District in the Province of Nelson, having been issued in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," and of an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province, intituled "An Ordinance to increase the Number of Members of the Provincial Council, and to alter the Electoral Districts of the Province of Nelson, Session II., No. 7," the Returning Officer for the said District has returned the said Writ, with a certificate to the effect that the undermentioned gentleman has been duly elected to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the said District, viz.:—
For the District of Amuri—
GEORGE LESLIE LEE, of Highfield.
By his Honor's command,
S. L. MULLER,
Provincial Secretary.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1855, No 17
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🏘️ Proclamation convening the Provincial Council of Nelson
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government3 December 1855
Provincial Council, Nelson, Meeting, Proclamation
- Edward William Stafford (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Nelson
- E. W. Stafford, Superintendent
- Henry Adams, Provincial Solicitor
🏘️ Election of a Member of the Provincial Council for the District of Amuri
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government3 December 1855
Election, Provincial Council, Amuri, Member elected
- George Leslie Lee, Elected Member of the Provincial Council for the District of Amuri
- S. L. Muller, Provincial Secretary