4. The Western District.

5. The Central District.

6. The Tokomairiro District.

7. The Southern District.

8. The Northern District.

The boundaries of the said several districts being particularly set forth and described in the Schedule, and delineated on the map or plan hereunto annexed.

3. The number of Members to be elected to serve in the Provincial Council for the said several districts shall be as follows, viz:—

4. For the Town of Dunedin District, Five Members.

5. For the Town of Port Chalmers District, One Member.

6. For the Eastern District, Three Members.

7. For the Western District, Three Members.

8. For the Central District, Three Members.

9. For the Tokomairiro District, One Member.

10. For the Southern District, Two Members.

11. For the Northern District, One Member.

12. Every person duly qualified as an Elector in terms of the aforesaid Act of Parliament, and duly registered as such for either of the aforesaid Electoral Districts in manner hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at the Election of a Superintendent of the Province, and shall also be entitled to vote at the Election of a Member or Members of the Provincial Council for the District or Districts for which he shall be so registered as aforesaid.

13. On or before the 1st day of June next, the Resident Magistrate at Dunedin, or other person to be appointed by the Superintendent of the Province, shall cause a List to be prepared of the Electors on the Electoral Roll in force prior to the passing of this Ordinance, setting forth the christian and surname of every such Elector at full length, together with his place of abode, calling or business, and the ground on which his name has been admitted on the said Electoral Roll, and arranging the names thereon in alphabetical order, and classing them for the several districts within which the property or properties is or are situated in respect of which they were admitted to the said Roll; and a copy of said Classified Roll shall be published in the Provincial Government Gazette, and in the newspaper published within the Province of Otago, together with the Notice provided for in clause 6 of this Ordinance.

14. On or before the 1st day of June next, the Resident Magistrate or other person as aforesaid, shall cause to be inserted in the Provincial Government Gazette, and in the newspaper published within the Province, a Notice to the effect that every person claiming a right to vote for the election of the Superintendent or of the Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province, shall deliver his claim, or cause the same to be delivered at the Resident Magistrate’s Office, Dunedin, or at such other place or places as by the said Notice shall be directed and appointed.

15. No person shall be qualified to vote at the election of any Superintendent of the Province of Otago, or of the Members of the Provincial Council thereof, unless his name appear on said Classified Roll, to be prepared as provided for in section 5 of this Ordinance, and no objection to its being retained on said Roll be sustained, or unless he shall prefer a claim to the right of voting in terms of this Ordinance, and unless his claim be duly enrolled as hereinafter provided.

16. Every such claim shall be in writing, and shall state the name of the District in respect of which it shall be made, and shall be signed by the Claimant or his agent, and shall state also the place of abode, and calling or business of the Claimant, and the qualification in respect of which such claim shall be made.

17. Every person claiming to be enrolled under the qualification of being a Householder shall prefer his claim to be enrolled within the district in which the tenement occupied by him is situated in respect of which he claims; and every person claiming to be enrolled in respect of any other qualification shall prefer his claim to be enrolled within any district in which any part of his property on which he claims to be enrolled is situated: provided always, that where any person has property situated in two or more districts sufficient in the aggregate to qualify him to be an Elector, he may prefer his claim to be enrolled in any one or more of the districts in which his property is situated, although the property held by him in that particular district for which he claims should not be sufficient of itself to qualify him; provided further, that no person can be enrolled in any district in respect of any property on which he claims in whole or in part to be enrolled in any other District.

18. The Resident Magistrate or other person as aforesaid, shall, on or before the 1st day of July next, cause a copy of the List of Claims which may have been preferred in pursuance of the aforesaid Public Notice, properly arranged in the aforesaid districts, and prepared in terms of the instructions contained in the aforesaid Proclamation, together with a copy of the aforesaid Classified List, prepared from the Electoral Roll in force prior to the passing of this Ordinance, to be posted in some conspicuous place in the district to which the said List shall specially relate, and shall subjoin thereto a Notice that all objections thereto will be heard and determined at a meeting of Justices of the Peace, open to the public, to be held on a day to be specified in such Notice, not being more than one calendar month after the date thereof.

19. The Resident Magistrate or other person as aforesaid shall call a special meeting of the Justices residing within the district or districts to which the said List of Claims and the other Classified List may relate, to be held on the day to be specified as aforesaid, for the purpose of hearing and determining objections to such Lists, and of forming therefrom a new Roll of persons qualified to vote at the elections of the Superintendent and Members of the said Provincial Council of said Province.

20. All objections shall be prepared, lodged, and disposed of, in terms of the provisions of the aforesaid Act of Parliament, the aforesaid Proclamation, and of this Ordinance, and a new Electoral Roll, classified in terms of this Ordinance, shall be completed in the manner prescribed by the aforesaid Proclamation.

21. The persons whose names shall be so enrolled in said Classified Roll shall be deemed and taken to be the Electors of the district in respect of which their names shall respectively appear upon such Roll, until the completion of the Electoral Roll for the year next ensuing; and every person whose name shall be enrolled as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be duly qualified to vote for the district in respect of which his name appears on such Roll.