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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the
Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her
Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Coun-
cil; Knight Commander 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 the
Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-first day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.
D. REID.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Regulations under “The Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876."
(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the powers vested in me by "The
Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876," I, George Augus-
tus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that in any district now or from time to
time hereafter constituted under the provisions of
"The Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876," the following
Regulations providing for the appointment of
Returning Officers, and for ascertaining and certify-
ing the qualification of persons claiming to vote at
every election of Trustees, and for issuing, executing,
and returning the necessary writs for the election of
Trustees, and for the orderly, effective, and impartial
conduct of such elections, shall take effect:

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 Rabbit Nuisance Act,
   1876."
   "Landowner" has the same meaning as is assigned
   to it by "the Act."
   "Returning Officer" means the person appointed
   under these Regulations to conduct the elections of
   trustees of a district under the Act.
   "Trustees" mean the trustees for a district.
   "District" has the same meaning as is assigned to
   it in the Act.
   "Resident Magistrate" means the Resident Magis-
   trate having jurisdiction in the district, or if there is
   no such Resident Magistrate, or more than one, then
   such Resident Magistrate as the Governor may from
   time to time appoint to perform the duties and
   exercise the functions imposed on the Resident
   Magistrate by these Regulations, and shall include
   any person acting as or fulfilling the duties of
   such Resident Magistrate.
   "Publicly notified" and "public notice" shall
   have the same meaning as is assigned to such words
   in the Act.

2. The Resident Magistrate shall, by writing, from
   time to time appoint Returning Officers. Any
   Returning Officer may at any time be removed by
   the Resident Magistrate, who may fill up any
   vacancy that may at any time occur by death, resig-
   nation, removal, or otherwise in the office of Return-
   ing Officer. Each Returning Officer shall within
   his district do all things required touching the con-
   duct of elections of trustees of the district; and,
   in so far as may be consistent with the Act, and any
   Proclamation issued thereunder, and these Regula-
   tions, such election shall be held, taken, conducted,
   and determined in manner required by "The Regula-
   tion of Local Elections Act, 1876;" and the provisions
   of the said last-mentioned Act, so far as the same can
   be applied to elections of trustees under the Act,
   shall be deemed and taken to be Regulations made
   under the Act. The provisions of sections 6, 12, 13,
   14, and 15 of the said "Regulation of Local Elections
   Act, 1876," shall not apply to the first elections of
   trustees directed to be held by the Governor under
   the 5th section of the Act. Whenever it shall be
   necessary to elect a trustee or trustees, the Resident
   Magistrate shall issue a writ for the election of such
   trustee or trustees. The Returning Officer shall fix
   a time and place for the holding of the election, and
   shall give public notice of such time and place.

3. The voter's roll for first election of trustees
   shall be prepared by the Resident Magistrate within
   thirty days from the publication hereof in the
   New Zealand Gazette. Such roll shall be in force
   until the 1st day of March in the next following year.

4. The Resident Magistrate shall, in every year,
   prepare a fresh roll, which roll shall be the roll for
   such year as from the first day of March until the
   first day of March then next following.

5. Such rolls shall be formed by placing thereon
   the name of every landowner who, under the pro-
   visions of the Act, is entitled to vote at an election of
   trustees.

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, fourteen days be-
   fore the 1st day of March in every year, be published
   by the Resident Magistrate by affixing the same to
   the outer door of the Resident Magistrate's Court-
   house, if there be one in the district, or, if there be
   no such Court-house, then in or on some other public
   or conspicuous place in such district; but publica-
   tion shall not be necessary in the case of the roll
   prepared for the first election pursuant to the Act.

7. During such fourteen days the Resident Magis-
   trate shall, if it be established that the name of any
   person entitled to vote in the election of trustees
   has been omitted from or erroneously inserted on
   such roll, to place on such roll the name so omitted,
   or to strike out the name so erroneously inserted
   on such roll.

The Resident Magistrate shall sign the roll for the
first election, and every subsequent roll when so
amended. When so signed such roll shall be con-
clusive evidence that the persons whose names
are on such roll, and no others, are the persons en-
titled to vote in the election of trustees for the dis-
trict.

9. If the Resident Magistrate is absent from the
   district, then the roll shall be signed by the Clerk to
   such Resident Magistrate; and such rolls so signed as
   aforesaid shall be the voters' rolls to be used respec-
   tively at the election of the trustees.

10. The Resident Magistrate shall, on the request
    of the Returning Officer, cause such officer to be sup-
    plied with a sufficient number of copies of the voter's
    roll as may be necessary for the purposes of the elec-
    tions in the district.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl
of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in
the County of York, in the Peerage of
the United Kingdom; and Baron Mul-
grave of New Ross, in the County of
Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a
Member of Her Majesty's Most Honor-
able Privy Council; Knight Commander
of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint