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137

The New Zealand Gazette.

Published by Authority.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1861.

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 the twenty-fifth day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette, on the
twenty-seventh 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 As-
sembly entitled the "New Provinces Act,
1858," did establish, on and after the first day
of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, a New Province to be called and known
by the name of Southland: 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
Proclamation direct and appoint; And it is
further enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor by Proclamation to constitute within
any Province 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 pur-
suance and by virtue of the power and authority
vested in me by the said Act, do hereby pro-
claim, declare, direct, appoint, and provide as
follows:-

1. The Provincial Council of the said Pro-
   vince of Southland shall consist of Eleven
   Members.

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, Mataura, Campbell-
   town, Waihopai, Invercargill, Riverton, and
   New River: the boundaries whereof respec-
   tively are described and set forth in the
   Schedule to this Proclamation, and are de-
   lineated on the Map or Plan hereunto an-
   nexed.

3. The number of Members to be elected to
   serve in the Provincial Council for the said
   several Districts shall be as follows, viz:-for
   Mataura, One Member; Campbelltown, One
   Member; Waihopai, Three Members; Inver-
   cargill, Three Members; Riverton, One Mem-
   ber; and New River, Two Members.

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
   Members of the House of Representatives on
   account of any tenements or hereditaments
   comprised within the limits of the said Pro-
   vince, on the Electoral Roll of that one of the
   said Districts within which such tenements
   and hereditaments are situate. And within
   twenty-eight days from the date hereof, the
   Electoral Rolls so to be formed as aforesaid