NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,
W. H. CUTTEN,
Provincial Secretary.

Vol. I.] SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1854. [No. 5.

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE ORDINANCE.

In the Seventeenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Session I. No. 3.

Analysis.

1. Government Gazette to be published as Superintendent directs.
2. Printed Gazettes to be evidence.
3. Commencement and provision for amendment.

An Ordinance to Regulate the Publication and Purpose of the Government Gazette for the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and the Provincial Council thereof, Session I. No. 1, entitled “An Ordinance to constitute an Executive Government for the Province of Otago,” it was enacted that the Superintendent should establish a Provincial Government Gazette, of which Gazette No. 1, then published, containing the Proclamation appointing the first Session of the Provincial Council, should be, and was thereby declared to be, the first number: And whereas it is expedient that further provision be made in that behalf:

Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:—

1. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to cause the Provincial Government Gazette to be printed and published at such times, by such persons, and generally in such manner, as he shall think fit; but nothing shall be printed or published therein except by consent or direction of the Superintendent.

2. Printed copies of the said Government Gazette, published by and in name of the authorised printer thereof for the time being, shall be evidence in all Courts, of all public and official acts, instruments, and notifications, therein published, and of the due publication of everything therein contained; and such publication shall be considered due notice to all persons affected thereby, and sufficient justification to all persons lawfully exercising any powers thereby publicly notified to be vested in them.

3. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the day of the passing thereof, and may be amended during the present Session.

W. Cargill,
Superintendent.

Passed the Provincial Council, and assented to by His Honor the Superintendent, upon the 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

Robert Graham,
Clerk of Council.

PROVINCIAL REVENUE ORDINANCE.

(Passed the 10th day of March, 1854.)
In the Seventeenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Session I. No. 4.

Analysis.

1. Certain portions of Revenue made payable to the Provincial Treasurer.
2. Provincial Treasurer to receive such monies, and grant receipts, licenses, &c.
3. Revenue collected through certain offices excepted.

An Ordinance for making certain portions of the Public Revenue of New Zealand, collected within the Province of Otago, payable to the Treasurer of the Province for the Public Service thereof.

WHEREAS by various laws and Ordinances now in force within the Province of Otago, the Public Revenue collected within the Province is payable to the Treasurer or