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 respected accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,
WILLIAM H. VALPY, Provincial Secretary.

Vol. I.] TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1854. [No. 7.

NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all persons residing within the Electoral Districts of the Province of Otago, whose NAMES ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRESENT ELECTORAL ROLL, and qualified as Electors under the provisions of an Act passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” are hereby requested to prepare claims in writing in the form hereto annexed, particularly stating the qualification in respect whereof such claim is made, and lodge the same at this Court between the 1st and 30th days of April next, after which latter date no claim can be received.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Resident Magistrate.

Resident Magistrate’s Court,
Dunedin, 28th March, 1854.

FORM OF CLAIM.

To A. C. Strode, Esq.,
Resident Magistrate.

I hereby give you notice, that I claim to have my Name enrolled, as a Voter for the Dunedin Town District (or Dunedin Country District, as the case may be) in pursuance with the provisions of the 6 & 7 Vict., cap. 72, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand.”

..................................................... Signature.

Name .............................................
Calling or Business .............................
Place of Abode ..................................
Qualification ....................................

QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS.

Pursuant to the provisions of the above-recited Act, every man of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, having a Freehold Estate in possession, situate within the district for which the vote is to be given, of the clear value of Fifty Pounds above all charges and incumbrances, and of or to which he has been seised or entitled either at law or in equity for at least six calendar months next before the last Registration of Electors; or having a Leasehold Estate in possession, situate within such district, of the clear annual value of Ten Pounds, held upon a Lease which, at the date of such Registration, shall not have less than three years to run; or having a Leasehold Estate so situate, and of such value as aforesaid, of which he has been in possession for three years or upwards next before such Registration; or being a Householder within such District, occupying a House or tenement within the limits of the Town of the clear annual value of Ten Pounds, or without the limits of the Town of the clear annual value of Five Pounds, having resided therein six calendar months next before such registration as aforesaid, shall, if duly registered, be entitled to vote at the Election of a Superintendent of a Province, or of a Member or Members of the Provincial Council thereof, or of a Member or Members of the House of Representatives: Provided that he is not an alien, and that he has not at any time heretofore been attainted or convicted of any treason, felony, or any infamous offence within any part of Her Majesty’s dominions, unless he shall have received a free pardon, or shall have undergone the sentence or punishment to which he shall have been adjudged for such offence.

DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS.

The Town of Dunedin District comprises the site of the Town of Dunedin, as delineated on the New Zealand Company’s plan of the said Town.

The Dunedin Country District comprises all that portion of the Middle Island of New Zealand not comprised in the site of the Town of Dunedin, which is comprised within the boundaries of the Province of Otago.