Dec. 27.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
1807

25. If the proceedings are interrupted or obstructed at any
    polling-booth by riot or violence the Returning Officer may
    adjourn the polling at such booth to the day following, and,
    if necessary, may so adjourn the polling from day to day
    until the riot ceases, when he shall again proceed therewith.

26. Immediately on the close of the poll the Returning
    Officer and each of his deputies, if any, shall send the ballot-
    boxes, unopened and with the key, to the Presiding Officer.

27. When all the ballot-boxes from the different polling-
    places are sent in to the Presiding Officer, he shall in the
    first place ascertain the majority in number of the votes for
    or against the proposal, and then he shall ascertain the total
    value of the rateable property within the whole railway
    district represented by that numerical majority.

Where the ratepayer and the owner shall, in respect of the
same property, have both voted for the adoption of Part IV.
of the Act, or both voted against such adoption, then the
value of such property shall only be taken into account once.

28. If such total value represents two-thirds or more of the
    value of the rateable property within the entire railway
    district, then the majority will be considered absolute, and
    the proposal will be assented to or dissented from, according
    to the manner in which such majority shall have voted.

29. The Presiding Officer shall forthwith notify to the
    Governor the result, and the Governor shall thereupon cause
    to be published in the Gazette a notice declaring that the
    consent or refusal, as the case may be, of the ratepayers and
    owners has been given; and such notice so published shall
    be conclusive evidence of such consent or refusal.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

FORM of ROLL for an Outlying District situate in a County
in which the whole of "The Counties Act, 1876," is
in Operation, (including Town Districts), a Borough, or
Road District, or the Part thereof situate in a Railway
District.

A.B.,
Revising Officer.

N.B.—The numbers in the first column must be conse-
cutive from one upwards.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

FORM of ROLL for an Outlying District situate in a County
in which the whole of "The Counties Act, 1876," is Not
in Operation.

A.B.,
Revising Officer.

N.B.—The numbers in the first column must be conse-
cutive from one upwards.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

I, , do solemnly declare that I will faithfully and
impartially, according to the best of my skill and judgment,
exercise and perform all the powers and duties reposed in or
required of me as (1) , and I solemnly promise that I
will not, directly or indirectly, disclose any fact coming to
my knowledge as such officer which I am required by law
not to disclose.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices
of the Peace Act, 1882."

[Signature.]

Declared before me at , this day of
18 , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of
New Zealand.

(1) Presiding Officer, Returning, or Deputy Returning Officer, as
the case may be.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

VOTING PAPER.

To [name of Returning Officer],
Returning Officer.

PROPOSAL by the Waicola, Linton, and Waiau Valley Rail-
way Company (Limited), to adopt the provisions of Part IV.
of "The Railways Construction and Land Act, 1881:"—

I (1) , of (2) , being duly entitled to vote on
such proposal hereby (3)

[Signature,] (4)
Ratepayer [or Owner.]

Attested by me , Justice of the Peace [or Voter,
or Presiding or Returning Officer.]

(1) Christian and surname of voter.
(2) Residence and occupation.
(3) Here insert either the word "consent" or "refuse."
(4) If voter is a ratepayer only, strike out the words "or owner."
If owner, strike out the words "ratepayer or."

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General
in Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of
the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
and Saint George, Companion of the Most Hon-
ourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Com-
mander-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 twentieth day of December,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three.

EDWIN MITCHELSON,
Minister for Public Works.

Extension of Time for the Taking of Ratepayers' and
Owners' Votes in the Railway District, Waicola, Linton,
and Waiau Valley Railway.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

WHEREAS by section eighty-three of "The Railways
Construction and Land Act, 1881," it is, amongst
other things, enacted that, within sixty days from the deposit
of the plan and book of reference, the votes of the ratepayers
and owners of property within a proposed railway district
shall be taken: And whereas the Waicola, Linton, and
Waiau Valley Railway Company (Limited) propose to con-
struct within a portion of the Provincial District of Otago a
railway under the said Act, and on the twenty-second day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, did
duly deposit the plan and book of reference pursuant to
the said Act: And whereas by section eighty-six of the said
Act it is, amongst other things, enacted that, if from any
cause it shall not be practicable to take the votes within the
said period of sixty days, the Governor may extend the time
for such period as he thinks fit, not exceeding twenty-one
days from the expiration of such sixty days: And whereas
some considerable time will elapse in the requisite formation
and revision of lists of persons entitled to vote under the said
Act in the district which it is proposed to constitute a railway
district for the purposes of the construction of the said rail-
way, and otherwise in carrying the provisions of the said
Act into effect; and it will not be practicable to take the
votes within the said period of sixty days:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of
the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do
hereby extend the time within which the votes of the rate-
payers and owners of property in the proposed railway
district may be taken for a period of twenty-one days
computed from the expiration of the said period of sixty
days.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General