✨ Electoral and Provincial Legislation Notices
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and over Her Majesty\'s Colony of New
Zealand, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &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, and
all or any of such polling places at any time
to abolish and to appoint other polling places
in lieu thereof :
Nowknowye, that I, THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance
of the power and authority in me vested by
the said Act, do hereby appoint the following
places to be Polling Places for the District of
the County of Cheviot, for the election of
Members of the House of Representatives :
namely, such place as the Returning Officer
may name at the Kowhai river; Robinson\'s
Station (Cheviot Hills); and Mason\'s old
Station at Waituhi Creek.
And I do further appoint the polling place
at the Kowhai river to be the principal
polling place for the said district.
Given under my hand, at Government
House, at Auckland, this fourth day of
October, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency\'s command,
HENRY JOHN TANCRED.
Colonial Secretary\'s Office, Auckland,
October 5, 1859.
THE following Bills, passed by the Pro-
vincial Council of the Province of Nelson,
intituled :—
"An Act to authorize the Superintendent to
purchase Crown Lands on behalf of Naval
and Military Settlers in certain cases,"
"An Act to authorize the Superintendent to
purchase Crown Lands and convey the same
as compensation to persons giving Land for
Roads in the Province of Nelson,"
"An Act to authorize the Superintendent to
purchase Crown Lands for certain persons
as compensation for damages sustained by
them by reason of the non-fulfilment of
certain contracts made by the New Zealand
Company,"
which Bills were reserved for the signification
of the Governor\'s pleasure thereon, having
been laid before the Governor in conformity
with the provisions of the Constitution Act,
his Excellency has been pleased to withhold
his assent from the same.
HENRY JOHN TANCRED,
For the Colonial Secretary.
PRINTED AT THE "EXAMINER" OFFICE, NELSON, BY C. AND J. ELLIOTT.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1859, No 21
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Proclamation appointing polling places for the County of Cheviot
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- Thomas Gore Browne (Governor), Appointed polling places for County of Cheviot
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
- Henry John Tancred, Colonial Secretary
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- Henry John Tancred, For the Colonial Secretary