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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The New Zealand University
Act, 1870," it is amongst other things
provided that the Council of the University
established under the said Act shall be nominated
and appointed by the Governor in Council, and
shall consist of twenty Councillors, and that the said
Council shall elect out of their own body a Chan-
cellor and Vice-Chancellor for such period as is
therein mentioned: And also that all questions
which shall come before the said Council shall be
decided by the majority of the members present or
voting by proxy as thereinafter provided; and that
the Chairman at any such meeting shall have a vote,
and in case of any equality of votes a casting vote
also; and that no question shall be decided at any
meeting unless six members be present: And
also, that the said Council shall have full power
to make and alter any statutes and regulations (so as
the same be not repugnant to any existing law or to
the provisions of the said Act) touching the discipline
of the said University, the number, stipend, and
manner of appointment and dismissal of the officers
thereof, the matriculation of students, the examina-
tions for fellowships, scholarships, prizes, exhibitions,
degrees, or honors, and the granting of the same
respectively, the fees to be charged for matriculation
or for any such examination or degree, the lectures
or classes of the Professors and the fees to be
demanded by them, the manner and time of
convening the meetings of the said Council and
Senate, and in general touching all other matters
whatsoever regarding the said University, and that
the said Council shall also have power to make and
alter any statutes and regulations for the conduct
of examinations for scholarships or exhibitions to be
held in any School of Law or Medicine, or in any
University outside the limits of the Colony, and for
the terms on which such scholarships shall be held:
And whereas by Order in Council made on the
third day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, His Excellency the Governor
nominated and appointed to be Members of the
said Council—

The Honorable John Barton Arundel Acland,
M.L.C., Canterbury;
Sir George Alfred Arney, Chief Justice, Auck-
land;

The Reverend Thomas Buddle, Wellington;
The Honorable Robert Campbell, M.L.C., Otago;
Hugh Carleton, Esq., Auckland;
His Honor Henry Samuel Chapman, Judge,
Otago;
The Right Reverend Dr. Croke, Roman Catholic
Bishop, Auckland;
His Honor Oswald Curtis, Nelson;
The Honorable William Fitzherbert, Wellington;
The Honorable Captain Thomas Fraser, M.L.C.,
Otago;
The Honorable Morgan Stanislaus Grace, M.D.,
M.L.C., Wellington;
The Right Reverend Henry John Chitty Harper,
Bishop of Christchurch, Canterbury;
James Hector, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., Wellington;
The Reverend William Johnston, Otago:
His Honor James Macandrew, Otago;
The Honorable Henry John Miller, M.L.C.,
Otago;
His Honor William Rolleston, Canterbury;
The Honorable Edward William Stafford, Nelson;
The Honorable Robert Stokes, M.L.C., Wel-
lington;
Henry John Tancred, Esq., Canterbury;

And whereas it is expedient that a time and place
should be fixed for the first meeting of the Council
so appointed:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
do hereby fix and appoint that the first meeting of
the said Council shall be held at the Otago University
Building, at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, on
Wednesday, the thirty-first day of May next, at
twelve o'clock at noon.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order
of Saint Michael and Saint George,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-
Admiral of the same; and issued under
the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington,
this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.

W. GISBORNE.