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after the Election shall have been held
the Returning Officer for the District
shall at the place of Nomination openly
declare the state of the Poll. And shall
at the same time declare the name or
names of the person or persons who may
have been duly elected at such Election.
And in the event of the number of votes
being found to have been equal for any
two or more candidates; he shall by his
casting vote declare which of the same
Candidates shall be elected. Provided
that no Returning Officer shall vote at
any Election of which he is the Returning
Officer except in the case of an equality
of votes as aforesaid.

Names of Persons elected to be inserted in Writ.

58. The Name or Names of the person
    or persons so elected, shall be inserted
    in or endorsed upon the Writ by the
    Returning Officer, and such Writ shall
    be returned by him to the Governor
    within the time by which such Writ may
    be returnable...

Voting Papers to be preserved.

59. The Voting Papers at every such
    Election shall be kept for the space of
    Six Calendar months after such Election
    by the Returning Officer who shall permit any Elector to inspect the same upon
    payment of One shilling.

New Writ in certain Cases.

60. In case any Writ to be issued by
    the Governor shall not be duly executed, or in case no valid election shall
    be made by virtue thereof, the Governor
    shall issue a new Writ directing the Returning Officer to proceed to a Public
    Election in manner and subject to the
    provisions hereinbefore prescribed.

Objection to Validity of Return.

61. All complaints of the undue Return of Members to serve in the said
    Council, shall be addressed in the form
    of Petition to the Governor stating the
    ground of objection. But no Petition
    shall be noticed nor any proceedings had
    thereon, unless it be signed by some person who was a Candidate at the Election
    whereof it may be alleged that an undue
    Return was made, or by a number of persons who voted, or who were qualified to
    have voted at the said Election amounting to not less than one-tenth of the
    whole number on the List of Electors.
    And no such petition shall be noticed
    which shall not be delivered to the Return-

ing Officer of the District, for immediate
transmission to the Governor of the Province within Twenty-one days from the
day of Election. Nor unless a copy
of such Petition have been served upon
the party whose Return shall be objected
to within such period of Twenty-one days
as aforesaid. Within Ten days after any
such Petition shall have been received
at the Office of the Colonial Secretary
from the Returning Officer if the said
Council be then sitting, or if the Council
be not then sitting within Ten days after
its next Meeting the Governor or some
other person duly authorized by him in
that behalf, shall cause such petition to
be referred to the said Council, and the
validity of the Return so complained of
shall be decided by such Council or by
such other Tribunal and in such manner
as the said Council shall direct and appoint.

Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Lyttelton, and Dunedin to be deemed Towns for purposes of Ordinance.

62. And I hereby further Proclaim
    and Declare, that Wellington, Nelson,
    Christchurch, Lyttelton, and Dunedin,
    shall be deemed and taken to be Towns
    for the purposes of the said recited
    Ordinance.

Interpretation.

63. For the purpose of carrying into
    effect the provisions of this Proclamation,
    the term Governor shall be taken to include the Lieutenant-Governor, Superintendent, or other Officer Administering
    the Government of the Province.

Proclamation to take effect from Date.

64. This Proclamation shall take effect
    from the day of the date hereof.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New
Munster, in the Islands aforesaid,
this Third day of June, in the year of Our Lord
One Thousand eight hundred
and fifty-two.

G. GREY,
Governor-in-Chief.

By His Excellency's command,

ALFRED DOMETT,
Civil Secretary.

God Save the Queen!