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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1877.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1877.

Regulations for First Election of Members of Elles-
mere and Forsyth Reclamation Trust.

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in
me by the fifth section of "The Ellesmere and
Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust Act,
1876," I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of
Normanby, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, do hereby make and proclaim the following
Regulations for the first election of the members of
the Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa
Railway Trust:-

REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these Regulations, the
   following terms and expressions shall have the
   meanings hereby assigned to them respectively,
   unless the context requires a different construction :
   "The Act" means "The Ellesmere and Forsyth
   Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust Act,
   1876."

"Returning Officer" means the person appointed
under the Act to conduct the first elections in
each district.

"District" means any one of the road districts
mentioned in the First Schedule to the Act.

"Borough" means the Borough of Akaroa.

"Clerk" means the Clerk of the Road Board
for the district, or the Town Clerk of
the borough, as the case may be, and shall
include any person acting as or fulfilling the
duties of such Clerks respectively.

"Gazette" means the New Zealand Gazette.

2. The Returning Officer shall, in the district for
   which he is appointed, do all things required touch-
   ing the conduct of the first elections of members of
   the Trust; and, in so far as may be consistent with
   the Act and these Regulations, such first elections
   shall be held and taken in manner required by "The
   Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876;" and the
   first elections shall be held on the ninth day of
   February next.

3. The places hereinafter mentioned are hereby
   fixed as the places at which the poll shall be taken
   for the first election of members of the Trust:---

Polling Place.

Wainui School-house
Little River School-room
Ellesmere Road Board Office, Leeston
Road Board Office, Springston
The Court House

Name of District.

Akaroa and
Wainui.
Little River.
Ellesmere.
The Springs.
The Borough
of Akaroa.

4. The voters' rolls for the first election of the
   members of the Trusts shall be prepared by the Clerks
   in each district and in the borough respectively, within
   ten days from the publication hereof in the Gazette.

5. Such rolls shall be formed by placing thereon
   the name of every ratepayer who, under the pro-
   visions of the Act, is entitled to vote at an election
   of a member of the Trust; and upon every voters'
   roll, opposite the name of each voter, in such form as
   may be most convenient, there shall be placed the
   number of votes which each voter is entitled to give
   at any such election.

6. The rolls so to be formed may be partly written
   and partly printed, or wholly written or printed, as
   may be most convenient, and shall, within fourteen days
   from the publication hereof in the Gazette, be severally
   published by each Clerk, by affixing the same to the
   outer door of the Resident Magistrate's Court House,
   if there be one in the district or borough, or, if there
   be no such Court House, then in or on some other
   public and conspicuous place in such district.

7. Every roll so affixed shall be signed by the
   Clerk and countersigned by the Chairman of the
   Road Board in the district to which it relates, and by
   the Mayor in respect of the borough.

If any Chairman or the Mayor is absent from the
district or borough, then the roll shall be signed by
two members of the Road Board or Council, as the
case may require; and such rolls, so published as
aforesaid, shall be the voters' rolls to be used re-
spectively at the first elections of the members of
the Trust.