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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

Declaring "Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,"
in force within the Mount Peel Road District,
County of Geraldine.

(L.S.) ARTHUR H. GORDON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by the third
section of "The Regulation of Local Elections
Act, 1876," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Gover-
nor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the said Act shall come into force,
in respect of all the elective offices of the Mount
Peel Road Board, within the district known as the
Mount Peel Road District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Honorable Arthur Hamilton Gordon,
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Dis-
tinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Her Majesty's High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific,
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
twelfth day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-one.

THOMAS DICK.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Scotsburn Recreation-ground brought under "The
Public Domains Act, 1860.".

ARTHUR H. GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
tenth day of March, 1881.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in
me by the eleventh section of "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said colony, do hereby order and declare that
the reserve made for public recreation in the Land
District of Canterbury, and known as the Scotsburn
Recreation-ground, and described in the Schedule
hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under
the operation of and declared to be subject to the
provisions of "The Public Domains Act, 1860," and
its amending Acts; and such domain shall hereafter
be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner
directed by the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Orari Survey District,
Provincial District of Canterbury, containing 50 acres,
more or less. Bounded-North-eastward by the road
south-west of Section 15391, 2850 links; South-east-
ward by a line at right angles to the said road; and
Westward by a road-line: and numbered 1554 (in
red) on the official map in the Survey Office, Christ-
church.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Scotsburn Domain Board
under "The Public Domains Act, 1860."

ARTHUR H. GORDON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
tenth day of March, 1881.
Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the eleventh section of "The
Public Domains Act, 1860," it is enacted
that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from
time to time delegate all or any of the powers by the
said Act conferred upon any person for any period,
and subject to such stipulations as may be specified
in such order, and that every such delegation may
from time to time in like manner be altered or re-
voked: And whereas it is enacted by "The Public
Domains Act, 1865," that the word "person" in the
hereinbefore recited section of "The Public Domains
Act, 1860," shall be deemed to include more persons
than one: And whereas pursuant to "The Public
Reserves Act, 1877," by an Order in Council of even
date herewith, the land described in the Schedule
thereto is declared to be brought under and to be
subject to the said "Public Domains Act, 1860:"

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth, by this
present order, delegate all the powers conferred by
the Act first above mentioned, except the powers
under or conferred by subsections five and ten of
section five, and section eleven, to the under-men-
tioned persons, who shall be known as the Scotsburn
Domain Board:—

The Hon. JOHN BARTON ARUNDEL ACLAND,
CHARLES GEORGE TRIPP,
GEORGE JAMES DENNISTOUN,
JOHN HENEY, and
JAMES PITHIE

(herein referred to as "the Board"), subject to the
stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,—

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of
   business on the third Friday in each month, at three
   o'clock p.m., at the Road Board Office, Peel Forest,
   or at such other time or place as may from time to
   time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall
   be held on Friday, the fifteenth day of April, one
   thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chair-
   man, or by any two members of the Board, provided
   that two days' notice of such meeting be given to
   each member, specifying the business to be trans-
   acted at such special meeting, and no other business
   than that so specified shall be transacted at such
   meeting.

3. Any three of the said Board shall form a
   quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time
   to time.

4. The members of the Board shall, at their first
   meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be
   held on the first Monday in January in every suc-
   ceeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to
   be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and
   shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The
   Chairman shall hold office until the election of his
   successor.

5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present
   at the time appointed for holding the same, the mem-
   bers present shall choose some one of their number
   to be Chairman of such meeting.

6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or other-
   wise, the office of Chairman shall be or become
   vacant, the members may at any monthly or special
   meeting appoint a Chairman.