Numb. 71.
797

DIEU
ET
OEMATY-PEN.
MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1875.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of every power and authority enabling
me under "The Maori Representation Act, 1867,"
as amended by "The Maori Representation Act
Amendment and Continuance Act, 1872," I, George
Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby
proclaim that the following regulations, making pro-
vision for the matters named in the ninth section
of the first above-mentioned Act, shall be in force.

REGULATIONS.

1. There shall be one Returning Officer for each
   electoral district, to be appointed by the Governor,
   and the said Returning Officer shall have power to
   appoint, on the occasion of the election, such Deputy
   Returning Officers and Registration Officers as he may
   deem necessary.

2. Every Returning Officer, Deputy Returning
   Officer, and Registration Officer shall, before acting
   in his office, take an oath before a Justice of the
   Peace in the form A, and such Justice of the Peace
   shall transmit a record of the same to the Colonial
   Secretary.

3. Polling places shall be appointed in each
   electoral district by the Governor, and notice of
   the places appointed shall be published in the Kahiti
   for at least fourteen days previous to the day of
   nomination.

4. The Writ shall be in the form B, specifying the
   day and place of nomination, and the day on which
   the poll, if necessary, shall take place.

5. The above Writ shall be forwarded to each
   Returning Officer, and a copy thereof shall be pub-
   lished in the Kahiti and New Zealand Gazette, and
   posted in such public places as shall be thought desir-
   able by the Returning Officer.

6. On the day of nomination, so to be fixed as
   aforesaid, the Returning Officer shall preside at a
   meeting to be held at noon at the appointed place,
   and shall declare the purpose for which the meeting
   is held. It shall be competent to the Returning
   Officer to declare the meeting adjourned from day to
   day till the election is completed.

7. Every candidate shall be proposed by one and
   seconded by another elector, who shall each previously
   obtain from the Returning Officer a certificate that
   he is qualified to vote at the election; and if no
   more than one candidate shall be so proposed and
   seconded, the Returning Officer shall declare such
   candidate duly elected, and will make his return
   accordingly.

8. In the event of there being more candidates
   than one proposed and seconded, the Returning
   Officer shall call for a show of hands, separately, in
   favour of each candidate, and after such show shall
   declare the person in whose favour the show of hands
   shall appear to have been largest; and if thereupon
   a poll be not demanded by one of the candidates, the
   Returning Officer shall declare such person to be
   duly elected.

9. The name of the person so declared to be
   elected shall be indorsed on the writ by the Return-
   ing Officer as the person duly elected in pursuance
   thereof, and the writ shall be returned by him to the
   Governor forthwith.

10. If a poll be demanded as aforesaid, the Return-
    ing Officer shall then declare the day on which the
    same shall be taken, being the day fixed by the Writ as
    aforesaid, and on that day the poll shall be open, at
    the places appointed as aforesaid, from nine a.m. to
    four p.m. of the same day, unless otherwise ordered
    by the Returning Officer.

11. If a poll be demanded, the Returning Officer
    shall immediately make arrangements for the issue,
    by the Registration Officer or officers at each polling
    place, of voting papers to electors, and such papers
    may be issued at any time or times appointed by the
    Returning Officer until the close of the poll.

12. On the day of the poll, the electors shall enter
    one by one the polling booth, and shall each present
    his voting paper, which shall be in the Form C, and
    in the English and the Maori language, and, when
    requested to do so, shall state the name of the
    candidate for whom he intends to vote, and his own