New Ulster Gazette – 1852 – No. 12

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✨ Proclamation of Provincial Councils

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
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.

By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. V. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1852. No. 12.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
a Knight Commander of the most
Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over the Islands of New
Zealand, and Governor of the
Provinces of New Ulster and New
Munster, and Vice Admiral of the
same, &c., &c., &c.

ANALYSIS.

Preamble, reciting Provincial Councils Ordinance, Session XI., No. 6.

Number of Members of Council.
Number of Electoral Districts.
Number of Members of each District.
Qualification of Electors.
Claims to be preferred.
Form of Claim.
When to be preferred.
Where to be preferred for certain Districts.
Where to be preferred for certain Districts.
Where to be preferred for certain Districts.
List of Claims to be prepared.
And to be published.
Justices to prepare Electoral Roll.
Objections to Claims.
Electoral Roll, how to be formed.
Proof of Qualification, in what case required.
Electoral Roll, how long in force.
Copy of Electoral Roll to be published.
Polling places for certain Districts.
And the Returning Officer.
Polling place for Bay of Islands District.
Returning Officer for same.
Polling place for Taranaki.
Returning Officer for same.
Writs for Election of Members.
Days for Nomination and for Election, how
fixed.
Returning Officer to preside at the Nomination.
In case of a Contest.
In case a Poll be demanded.
The Polling.
Mode of Voting.
What inquiry may be made.
State of the Poll to be declared.
Names of persons elected to be inserted in
writ.
Voting Papers to be preserved.
New Writ in certain cases.
Objection to validity of Return.
Auckland to be deemed to be a Town for purposes of Ordinance.
Interpretation.
Proclamation to take effect from date.
Schedule.
Plans.

Preamble, reciting Provincial Councils Ordinance, Session XI., No. 6.

WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the
Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, Session XI., No. 6, intituled "An
Ordinance to provide for the Establishment of
Provincial Legislative Councils, and for the
Election, &c., of Members to serve therein," it
was amongst other things enacted, that for each
of the Provinces into which the Islands of New
Zealand then were, or might thereafter be divided,
there should be a Legislative Council, to
consist of such number of Members not less than
nine as the Governor-in-Chief should by Proclamation
in that behalf from time to time direct
and appoint, and that two-thirds of the Mem-