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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

make and prescribe the following regulations for
the formation of lists of persons entitled to vote,
and for ascertaining the names and qualifications of
persons so entitled, and for the authentication and
use of the lists so to be made, and for the appoint-
ment, conduct, and duties of persons before whom
votes shall be taken.

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 Mulgrave
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; 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; at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

J. MACANDREW.

REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these regulations the
   following terms and expressions shall have the mean-
   ings hereby assigned to them respectively, unless the
   context requires a different construction:—
   "The Act" means "The District Railways
   Act, 1877."
   "Railway District" means a railway district
   constituted under the Act.
   "Public notice" means the publication in a
   newspaper circulating in the railway dis-
   trict; and, if there be no such newspaper,
   the publication by means of placards
   posted in conspicuous places.
   "Outlying district" means any part of a rail-
   way district that is not comprised within
   a borough, or a road or highway district.
   "Road district" means any road district or
   highway district.
   "Ratepayers" and "owners of property"
   mean exclusively ratepayers and owners
   of property within the district.
   "Roll" and "voters' roll" means the voters'
   roll of an outlying railway district, borough,
   or road district, or part thereof, situate in
   a railway district under the Act.
   "Presiding Officer" means the Presiding
   Officer appointed under the authority of
   these regulations.

Formation and Revision of Rolls.

2. As soon as conveniently may be after the de-
   posit of the plan and book of reference pursuant to
   section five of the Act, the Governor shall appoint
   some person to be Revising Officer for the railway
   district.

3. The Revising Officer shall, within fourteen days
   after his appointment, cause to be prepared a separate
   voters' roll for each outlying district, borough, and
   road district, or part thereof respectively situate in
   the railway district, in the form in the First Sche-
   dule, containing the names, arranged in alphabetical
   order of their surnames, of all the ratepayers and
   owners, and shall affix to each ratepayer's and owner's
   name the rateable property of such ratepayer and
   owner, and the rateable value thereof.

4. In outlying districts situate in a county in
   which the whole of "The Counties Act, 1876," is not
   in operation, the Revising Officer shall cause to be
   prepared a voters' roll only of all owners of rateable
   property, in the form in the Second Schedule hereto,
   and shall affix opposite each owner's name the
   rateable property of such owner, and the rateable
   value thereof.

5. Any road district or part thereof situate in a
   railway district for which no ratepayers' roll is pre-
   pared or in force, shall be deemed to be an outlying
   district for the purpose of these regulations.

6. In making valuations for the purpose of these
   regulations, the person making the same shall be
   guided by the provisions of "The Rating Act, 1876,"
   for the valuation of rateable property.

7. A copy of the voters' roll for each outlying dis-
   trict, borough, or road district, or part thereof, in a
   railway district, shall be kept at some place in such
   outlying district, borough, or road district, or part
   thereof, of which the Revising Officer shall cause
   public notice to be given; and such rolls shall be
   open to public inspection at all reasonable hours for
   the space of ten days.

8. Any person who considers himself aggrieved
   by his own name or that of any other person being
   entered on or omitted from the roll, or by the entry
   on or the omission from the roll of any rateable pro-
   perty to which he or such other person is entitled, or
   by the rateable value of such property being set down
   at less or more than it should be, may, before the
   expiration of the said ten days, apply to the Revising
   Officer for relief.

Any bank, joint-stock or other company, firm,
copartners, or joint tenants, being ratepayers or
owners of any property, may, by a notice in writing,
delivered to the Revising Officer, nominate some
member or officer of such bank, company or firm, or
any one of such copartners or joint tenants, who
shall be deemed to be and shall be entered in the
voters' roll as the person to vote in respect of such
property.

9. The Revising Officer shall by public notice
   appoint a time and place, not being later than seven
   days next after the expiration of such ten days,
   at which he will sit to hear all such applications, and
   may summon any person whose evidence may be
   deemed necessary in the case to attend at such time
   and place; and, after making due inquiry, may enter
   any name on or erase any name from the roll which
   it is proved to his satisfaction ought to be entered
   thereon or erased therefrom, or to alter any of the
   particulars set forth on such roll, or to omit or enter
   thereon any particulars which it is proved to his satis-
   faction ought to be so altered, omitted, or entered, and
   the Revising Officer shall initial every such alteration
   therein. The Revising Officer may adjourn from
   time to time, and place to place. The decision of
   the Revising Officer on all objections coming before
   him shall be final.

10. The said roll so corrected shall be signed by
    the Revising Officer.

11. The said Revising Officer shall sign as many
    copies of the said roll as he shall think sufficient;
    but there shall be a signed copy for each outlying
    district, borough, or road district, or part thereof, in
    the railway district. He shall transmit the roll and
    the signed copies to the Presiding Officer.

12. Any copy of such roll signed by the Revising
    Officer shall be conclusive evidence that the said roll
    has been duly made under the provisions of this Act,
    and no defect in the title to office of any person
    making, correcting, or signing such roll shall invali-
    date such roll.

Polling how conducted.

13. The Governor shall appoint a Presiding Officer