NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given, that in virtue of the Otago "Immigration and British Agent Ordinance," Session II., No. 4, and the Rules made thereon by the Superintendent and Executive Council, Parties wishing to get out their Friends are to apply to me in writing in the annexed form.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

Date..............

To His Honor the Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

Sir,—I hereby apply for the under-mentioned persons to be brought out to Otago as selected passengers, and I hereby bind and oblige myself to guarantee the repayment of the cost of their passages, to such extent, and within the time for each instalment of the same, as shall have been agreed upon between the said Passengers and the Home Agents for the Province.

Name and Sex..............................
Age (so far as known or believed).........
Trade, or class of labour..................
Residence (stating the county, and parish or town)...............................

Signed A.B.
Residence................................

Witnesses to the signature of A.B.
C.D., of..................................
E.F., of..................................

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Cargill, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the "Public Roads Ordinance," passed in the first Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, No. 10, Section 8, it is enacted "That the Superintendent shall divide the whole Province into Districts, and shall distinctly lay down the boundaries of each District by a Proclamation in the Gazette and in the newspapers." And whereas, by Proclamation dated the 19th day of July 1854, and published in the Gazette of date the 22nd day of July 1854, and in the "Otago Witness" of date the 29th day of July 1854, the boundaries of the Town District and Clutha District of said Province were distinctly laid down, and a Notice published, requiring the Inhabitants of said Districts respectively to meet at the time and place mentioned in said notice, to elect Trustees in terms of the said Ordinance: but the said meetings from divers causes, were not held: And whereas another Proclamation containing a notice was issued and published in the Gazette No. 12, and in the "Otago Witness" No. 168, of new proclaiming the said Town District, and requiring the Inhabitants thereof to meet and elect Trustees as aforesaid;

time and place mentioned in that Proclamation; but they again failed to do so: And it is therefore necessary that another Proclamation and notice should be issued, so that the provisions of the said Ordinance may be carried into effect in the said Town District and Clutha District.

Wherefore I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, hereby again proclaim that the Town District and Clutha District shall come under the provisions of the said Ordinance from and after the date of this Proclamation: That the respective boundaries of the said Town District and Clutha District shall be the same as are distinctly laid down in the said Proclamation dated 19th July 1854: And I further give notice to the Inhabitants of the said Town District and Clutha District, qualified in terms of said Ordinance, to assemble and elect Trustees as aforesaid, on the dates and at the places herein stated, and in each case to return to His Honor the Superintendent the names of the Trustees so elected.

Town District

To meet at the premises of Captain Broadfoot, Caversham, on Friday, the 12th January next, at seven o’clock p.m.

Clutha District

To meet at the premises of John Shaw, Esq., on Wednesday, the 31st January next, at 1 o’clock p.m.

Given under my hand at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 28th December, 1854.

His Honor the Superintendent has been pleased to direct the publication of the following clause of the "Public Roads Ordinance," for the information and guidance of the Inhabitants of the districts called upon to elect Trustees by the Notice contained in the foregoing Proclamation.

By His Honor’s command,
John Logan,
Clerk to Superintendent.

(Section 17.) "The male inhabitants of each district, qualified by being above twenty-one years of age, and by having resided in the district at least three months previous to the meeting, shall meet on a day and at a place to be named by the Superintendent in a notice to be published in the Gazette, proclaiming the district to be under the operation of this Ordinance, and shall then and there nominate five of their own number to be Road Trustees for the district in which they shall reside, one of whom shall be named Convener of the district; and a majority of them shall always be a quorum; and such Trustees so elected shall be called ‘The District Road Trustees,’ and shall remain in office till a new election shall take place."

Printed for the Provincial Government by Daniel Campbell, Dunedin.