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 obeyed accordingly.

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

Vol. I.] SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1854. [No. 9.

PUBLIC ROADS ORDINANCE.

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

Session I., No. 10.

ANALYSIS.

Preamble.

1. Superintendent to cause proper Road Lines to be laid down.

2. Roads may be formed on Crown Lands or private property.

3. Owner of private property to recover compensation; amount to be fixed by a Jury.

4. Jury bound to meet and determine amount of compensation.

5. Surveyor to survey and stake off proposed Roads.

6. Surveyor to give notice of, and hold meetings, and to hear suggestions from parties interested in line of Road.

7. Parties aggrieved may appeal to General Board of Road Trustees, who shall determine disputes.

8. Superintendent to divide Province into Districts. The Districts called upon to elect Trustees to come under the operation of this Ordinance.

9. Superintendent to give notice of Districts to be formed and appoint a day for hearing objections.

10. Superintendent may increase number of Districts, and alter boundaries.

11. Election of Road Trustees, and qualification of Electors.

12. Trustees to be elected annually on the 2nd Tuesday of May.

13. Vacancies, how to be filled up.

14. Trustees elected, to be a General Board. Meeting to be called by Superintendent.

15. Chairman to be appointed at first meeting.

16. General Board to fix and determine on new lines of roads, and extensions of old lines.

17. General Board to make up and send Estimates for approval of Superintendent.

18. Proprietors of land to be assessed for expense of surveying and laying down road lines.

19. Breadth of Roads. New roads must be formed by contract.

20. On whom assessments are to be levied.

21. District Trustees to have charge of District Roads.

22. District Trustees shall annually, in the month of August, make up Estimates of repairs necessary and send copy to Superintendent, who shall cause assess and collect assessment.

23. Mode of assessing for repairing Roads, and rates thereof.

24. Proprietors of unoccupied land to be assessed double.

25. Meetings to be called for making assessment.

26. Appeal against assessment.

27. Persons giving false information to be assessed double.

28. Notice of day for hearing Appeals.

29. Labour may be taken in lieu of assessment.

30. Rate of wages to be allowed to parties giving work in lieu of assessment.

31. Collector to add 50 per cent. to assessed amount on parties failing to give labour when required.

32. Penalty for not paying assessment within one week after day of collection.

33. Warrant for levying same by Arrestment, Distress, and Sale.

34. Percentage to be charged on assessments not paid within six months.

35. Assessments on lands to be a real burden on such lands.

36. Assessments due on lands sold to be levied on seller or purchaser.

37. Provincial Treasurer may be collector of assessments.

38. Money for forming or repairing roads to be paid under warrants.

39. Accounts to be published annually.

40. Penalty for dragging sledges, or riding-horses in ditches.

41. Provincial Council may apply Public Revenue in aid or in lieu of assessments.

42. Change of Trustees, &c., shall not affect Contracts, &c., of retiring Trustees, &c.

43. Commencement of Ordinance; and not to extend to the Town of Dunedin.