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                                        The New Zealand Gazette.

                                            Published by Authority,

                                        TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1860.

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 its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council, dated W
be elected for each such District, and to make
the Fourth day of October, one thou-
provision for the formation of the first Elec-
sand eight hundred and fifty nine, and pub-
toral Rolls for the election of such Members.
lished in the New Zealand Gazette,
Now, therefore, I, the Governor, in pur-
on the eighth day of the same month, the
suance and by virtue of the power and authority
Governor by and with the advice and consent
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby pro-
of the Executive Council, and in exercise of the
claim, declare, direct, appoint, and provide as
powers in that behalf vested in him, under and
follows:-
by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly,
entitled the "New Provinces Act, 1858," did

1. The Provincial Council of the said Pro-
   establish, on and after the first day of Novem-
   vince of Marlborough shall consist of Ten
   ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine,
   Members.
   a New Province to be called and known by the
   name of Marlborough. And whereas by the

2. The said Province for the election of the
   said Act it is amongst other things enacted
   Members of the Provincial Council thereof,
   that the Provincial Council of any Province
   shall be divided into seven Electoral Districts
   established under the said Act shall in the first
   as follows that is to say, Picton, Beaver,
   instance consist of such number of Members
   Lower Wairau, Upper Wairau, Wairau Valley,
   not less than nine, as the Governor shall by
   Awatere, Flaxbourne and Clarence. The
   Proclamation direct and appoint; And it is
   boundaries whereof respectively are described
   further enacted that it shall be lawful for the
   and set forth in the Schedule to this Proclama-
   Governor by Proclamation to constitute within
   tion, and are delineated on the Map or Plan
   any Province established under the said Act,
   hereunto annexed.
   convenient Electoral Districts for the election
   of Members of the Provincial Council, and to

3. The number of Members to be elected to
   appoint and declare the number of Members to
   serve in the Provincial Council for the said
   several Districts shall be as follows, viz:--for
   Picton, One Member, Beaver, One Member,
   Lower Wairau, Two Members, Upper Wairau,
   Two Members, Wairau Valley, Two Members,
   Awatere, One Member, Flaxbourne and Cla-
   rence, One Member.

4. Francis Dart Fenton 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 Repsesentatives on account