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The New Zealand Gazette.

Published by Authority.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1858.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion 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.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council
dated the first day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette
on the third day of the same month,
the Governor by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council,
and in exercise of the powers in that behalf
vested in him under and by virtue of an Act
of the General Assembly entitled the "New
Provinces Act, 1858," did establish a new
Province, to be called and known by the name
of Hawke's Bay: And whereas by the said
Act it is amongst other things enacted that the
Provincial Council of any Province established
under the said Act shall in the first instance
consist of such number of Members, not less
than nine, as the Governor shall by Proclama-
tion direct and appoint; and it is further
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
by Proclamation to constitute within any Pro-
vince established under the said Act convenient
Electoral Districts for the election of members
of the Provincial Council, and to appoint and
declare the number of members to be elected
for each such district, and to make provision
for the formation of the first Electoral Rolls
for the election of such members.

Now, therefore I the Governor in pursuance
and by virtue of the power and authority vested
in me by the said Act, do hereby proclaim,
declare, direct, appoint, and provide as follows:

1. The Provincial Council of the said Pro-
   vince of Hawke's Bay shall consist of ten Mem-
   bers.

2. The said Province, for the election of the
   Members of the Provincial Council thereof,
   shall be divided into six Electoral Districts as
   follows, that is to say, Napier, Napier Country,
   Clive, Te Aute, Mohaka, and Waipukurau,
   the boundaries whereof respectively are des-
   cribed and set forth in the Schedule to this
   Proclamation, and are delineated on the Map
   or Plan hereunto annexed.

3. The number of Members to be elected to
   serve in the Provincial Council for the said
   several Districts shall be as follows, viz.:-
   Napier, three Members; Napier Country, two
   Members; Clive, one Member; Mohaka, one
   Member; Te Aute, one Member; and Waipu-
   kurau, two Members.

4. Donald McLean, Esquire, shall within
   twenty-one days from the date hereof, form
   the first Electoral Rolls for the election of such
   Members by placing the name of every person
   who is at this present time registered as an
   elector entitled to vote in the election of Mem-
   bers of the House of Representatives, on ac-
   count of any tenements or hereditaments com-
   prised within the limits of the said Province on
   the Electoral Roll of that one of the said
   Districts within which such tenements and
   hereditaments are situate. And that within
   twenty-eight days from the date hereof the
   Electoral Rolls so to be formed as aforesaid
   shall be published in the New Zealand
   Gazette, and from and after the day of such
   publication the several Rolls shall be the
   Electoral Rolls to be used respectively for the
   said Districts for the election of members of
   the said Provincial Council until new Electoral
   Rolls shall be made for the same under the
   provisions of the law for the time being in
   force for the Registration of Electors.

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at Auck-
land, this first day of