Otago Provincial Gazette – 1854 – No. 15

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✨ Provincial Council Ordinance



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be observed accordingly.

W. Cargill, Superintendent.

Vol. II.] MONDAY, DECEMBER, 11, 1854. [No. 15.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ORDINANCE.

In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

SESSION II., No. 1.

ANALYSIS.

Preamble.

  1. Number of Members of Council.
  2. Number of Electoral Districts.
  3. Number of Members for each District.
  4. Electors to be entitled to vote in Districts for which they are registered.
  5. A Classified List of Electors on present Electoral Roll to be prepared and published.
  6. Notice to be given to lodge Claims.
  7. Persons on Classified and new Rolls to be entitled to vote.
  8. Mode of preparing Claim.
  9. Claim to be enrolled in District where property is situated.
  10. List of Claims and Classified List to be published.
  11. Meeting of Justices to be called for forming new Roll.
  12. New Roll, how to be formed.
  13. New Roll to be used in Elections of Superintendent and Members of Council.
  14. And published for general information.

AN ORDINANCE to increase the Number of Members of the Provincial Council, and also the Number of Electoral Districts and Polling Places, and to provide for making up a New Electoral Roll.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Session of the Imperial Parliament, holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 72, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” and by a Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, issued in conformity to said Act, and dated the 5th day of March 1853, Otago is declared a Province of New Zealand, and the inhabitants thereof, qualified in terms of said Act, are authorised to elect a Superintendent and a Provincial Council, consisting of Nine Members; and for the purposes of said Election said Province was divided into two Districts:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the number of Members of said Provincial Council for the Province of Otago be increased, and that the Province be divided into new and additional Electoral Districts, and that provision be made for making up a new Electoral Roll for said Province, and making such other Regulations as may be necessary for carrying into effect this Ordinance, and that the foresail Proclamation in so far as it is inconsistent with the provisions herein contained, should be repealed:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:

  1. The Provincial Council of the Province of Otago shall consist of Nineteen Members.

  2. The said Province, for the purposes of the election of the Superintendent and of the Members of the Provincial Council thereof, shall be divided into Eight Electoral Districts, to be named as follows, viz.:

    1. The Town of Dunedin District.
    2. The Town of Port Chalmers District.
    3. The Eastern District.


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