✨ Proclamation of Provincial Council Sessions
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
WILLIAM CARGILL, Superintendent.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1853.
No. 1
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament held in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Islands of New Zealand," it was enacted that certain Provinces be thereby "established in New Zealand;" that for each of the said Provinces so established there shall be a Superintendent and a Provincial Council; and that the said Superintendent and the members of the Provincial Council of each such Province shall be elected in such manner as in and by the said Act of Parliament is provided in that behalf:
And whereas, in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament, I, the said William Cargill, Esquire, have been duly elected Superintendent of the Province established by the said Act of Parliament as the Province of Otago, and a Provincial Council for the said Province of Otago has also been duly elected.
And whereas, by the said Act of Parliament, it is enacted that "it shall be lawful for the Superintendent (of each Province established as aforesaid,) by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such places or places within the limits of the Province, and such times for holding the first and every other session of the Provincial Council, as he may think fit, and from time to time, in manner aforesaid, to alter and vary such times and places as he may judge advisable, and most consistent with general convenience."
Now, therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago aforesaid, in pursuance of the authority by the said in part recited Act of Parliament in me vested, do hereby fix, proclaim, and declare, that the first session of Otago Provincial Council of the Province of Otago aforesaid, shall be holden in the Hall called the Mechanics’ Institute, in the Town of Dunedin, in the said Province, on Friday, the 30th day of December instant, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon. And in further pursuance of the authority in me, the said Superintendent, vested as aforesaid, I do hereby also proclaim, and declare, that every subsequent Session of such Provincial Council shall be holden in Dunedin aforesaid at the hour of Ten in the forenoon of the fourteenth day of January in each year during the continuance of such Council, or until, by proclamation under my hand in the Government Gazette, I shall alter and vary the times and places of meeting of the said Council.
Given under my hand at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, this Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-three.
WILLIAM CARGILL,
Superintendent.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1853, No 1
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🏘️ Proclamation of First and Subsequent Sessions of Otago Provincial Council
🏘️ Provincial & Local Government26 December 1853
Proclamation, Otago Provincial Council, Sessions, Dunedin, Mechanics’ Institute
- William Cargill (Esquire), Proclaimed first session of Otago Provincial Council
- William Cargill, Superintendent