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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 December in every succeeding 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 members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

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

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Courtenay Road District, Provincial District of Canterbury, containing 20 acres, more or less. Bounded—South-westward by the Coal Road, about 1730 links; South-eastward by Sections Nos. 3711, 3733, 3742, and 4247, about 970 links; North-eastward by Section No. 178 (in red), about 1650 links; and North-westward by a line parallel to the south-eastern boundary, drawn from a point on the Coal Road being 50 links south-east of the intersection of the north-eastern side thereof by the south-western boundary of Section No. 178 (in red), about 1460 links: and numbered 2413 (in red) on the official map in the Provincial District Survey Office, Christchurch.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Ocean Beach Domain Board under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of October, 1884.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council dated the thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears, and doth, with the like advice and consent, by this present order, delegate, but only with respect to the piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Ocean Beach Public Domain Board, viz.,—

JAMES PILLANS MAITLAND (Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Otago Land District),
WILLIAM JAMES MUDIE LARNACH,
GEORGE GRAY RUSSELL,
HENRY DRIVER,
EDWARD BOWES CARGILL,
WILLIAM BALDWIN,
JAMES ROBIN,
ROBERT RUTHERFORD,
JOHN WHITE,
ADAM NICHOL,
His Worship the MAYOR of CAVERSHAM (ex officio),
His Worship the MAYOR of SOUTH DUNEDIN (ex officio), and
His Worship the MAYOR of ST. KILDA (ex officio)

(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 fourth Tuesday in each month, at noon, at the Land Office, Dunedin, 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 Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.

2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, 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 transacted 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 fourth Tuesday in January in every succeeding 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 members present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

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

7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Otago, being Section No. 28, Block VII., Otago Peninsula Survey District, and Section No. 4, Block XII., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District, containing by admeasurement 132 acres, more or less. Bounded towards the North-west generally by Application No. 12, Block XII., Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District, by a road-line to Section No. 27, Block VII., Otago Peninsula Survey District; thence by that section and again by a road-line to the southernmost corner of Section No. 8, Block III., Anderson’s Bay Survey District; thence by said section and again by a road-line to Section No. 26, Block VII., Otago Peninsula Survey District; towards the East by that section to its south-west corner; and thence by a line due south to the high-water mark of the ocean; and towards the South generally by the said high-water mark to its intersection with the south-east boundary-line of Application No. 12 first mentioned: excepting a road-line, 60 links wide, intersecting the above-described area; as the same is delineated on the plans in the Survey Office, Dunedin.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Terms and Conditions of Sale of a Village Settlement, Otago Land District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of October, 1884.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-first section of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may fix the terms and conditions upon which the lands comprised in any village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same: And whereas His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand has, by Proclamation, set apart the lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto for sale as a village settlement:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby fix the following terms and conditions upon which the said village settlement shall be disposed of, and the mode of payment for the same, that is to say,—

1. The lands enumerated in the Schedules hereto shall be disposed of as village allotments and small-farm allotments for cash, and small-farm allotments upon deferred payments.

2. The day upon which the lands shall be open for application shall be Wednesday, the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, at the Land Office, Dunedin.

3. The lands enumerated in the First Schedule hereto shall be sold for cash immediately on purchase, and the lands enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto shall be sold on deferred payments.

4. The lands which are disposed of by sale upon deferred payments shall be subject to the provisions relating to suburban lands of Part III. of “The Land Act, 1877,” also to the provisions of section nine of “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1879.”

5. No person shall be allowed to acquire more than one section upon either immediate or deferred payments.

6. The prices stated in the Schedules hereto shall be the prices at which the lands shall be open for application.

7. If there should be more than one application for any village allotment in the First Schedule, offered for cash, the right to purchase the same shall be determined by auction amongst the applicants; and if there should be more than