✨ Proclamation defining marriage districts
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
TUESDAY, 22ND JULY, 1863.
A PROCLAMATION
Appointing certain Districts under the
"Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858."
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-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 the "Marriage Act
Amendment Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor at any
time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand
Gazette, to divide the Colony of New Zea-
land, for the purposes of the said Act, into
such and so many Districts as he may think
fit, and that every such District shall be called
by a distinct name, and shall be a Registrar's
District; and it is provided that the Governor
may at any time revoke the whole or any part
of such Proclamation, and issue a new Procla-
mation dividing the Colony, or any part of it,
into Districts, or increasing the number or
altering the boundaries of Districts as from
time to time he may think requisite.
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey,
Governor of the said Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the power and authority in me
vested by the said recited Act, do hereby
revoke every Proclamation at any time hereto-
fore issued appointing or dividing Registrar's
Districts under the said Act, so far as such
Proclamations relate to Districts within the
Provinces of Otago and Southland respect-
ively; and do hereby proclaim and declare that
the said Provinces shall be and are hereby
divided for the purposes of the said Act into
eleven Districts in the Province of Otago and
three Districts in the Province of Southland,
the names and boundaries whereof respect-
ively shall be as follows:
PROVINCE OF OTAGO.
Dunedin District,
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by the Waihemo Creek, Blueskin Bay
and the ocean; on the East and South by the
oceart; and on the West by Kaikorai and
Abbott's Creeks; thence by the watershed of
the Kaikorai, Flagstaff, and Swamp Hill
Ranges, to the source of the Waihemo Creek.
Waikouaiti District,
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by the Oamuru District; on the East
by the ocean; on the South by Dunedin Dis-
trict, thence by the watershed of the Silver-
peak Hills to the source of Allen Creek, thence
by the Allen Creek, Taieri, and Sutton, to
Lammerlaw; and on the West by the water-
shed of Lammerlaw and Rough-ridge Ranges
to Mount Ida.
Dunstan District,
Comprises all that area bounded on the
North by Oamura District; on the East by
Waikouaiti District; on the South by the
Minzion Burn, Clutha, and an East and West
line to Mount Benger; and on the West by
the watershed of Mount Benger, Obelisk,
Carrick, Double Rock Ranges to Mount Pisa.
East Taieri District,
Comprises all that area bounded on the North
by Waikouaiti District; on the East by Dun-
edin District; on the South by the Ocean; and
on the West by the Taieri River.
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🏛️ Proclamation appointing Registrar's Districts under the Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1858
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Proclamation, Marriage Act, Registrar's Districts, Otago, Southland, Boundaries
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief