NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all Persons residing within the Province of Otago, whose Names are not included in the foregoing Classified Electoral Roll, claiming a right to vote for the Election of the Superintendent or of Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province, are hereby required to prepare Claims in writing in the form hereunto annexed, and deliver, or cause the same to be delivered at this office on or before the 31st day of March next, after which date no Claim will be received.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Resident Magistrate.

Resident Magistrate’s Office,
Dunedin, 22nd February 1855.

FORM OF CLAIM.

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

I hereby claim to have my Name enrolled as a Voter for the Town of Dunedin District (or otherwise as the case may be) in accordance with the "Provincial Council Ordinance," Session II, No. 1.

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QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS.

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 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 against 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.

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 situate 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.

DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS.

1. The Town of Dunedin District comprises the Town and Town Belt of Dunedin, as delineated on the map of the Otago Settlement.

2. The Town of Port Chalmers District comprises the Town and Town Belt of Port Chalmers, as delineated on the map of the Otago Settlement.

3. Eastern District—
   North by the Otago Harbour to the Town Belt of Dunedin; thence by the said Town Belt to the road line forming the northern boundary of suburban sections Nos. 92 and 91, block VI., Town District; thence by the eastern and northern boundaries of section 80 of the same block and district; thence by the western boundary of said section and of sections 73, 72, and 71, of the same block and district, to a road line; thence by said road line to section 50 of the last mentioned block and district; thence by a right line forming the north-eastern boundary of said section 50, and of section 18 Lower Kaikorai district; thence by the north-western boundary of said section 18, and of sections 19, 20, and 21 of same district; and thence by a right line running through the Trigonometrical station on Kaikorai hill to Abbott’s Creek, South by the Ocean.

West by Abbott’s Creek to its junction with the Kaikorai River; thence by the Kaikorai River to the Ocean.

4. Western Suburban District—
   North-west and west by a right line from the north-western head of Porakauaui harbour to the Trigonometrical station on Flagstaff hill; thence by a right line to the north-west corner of suburban section 41 Wakari district; thence by the surveyed lands to the south-west corner of section 155 Wakari district; thence by a right line to Abbott’s Creek, to the north-west point of the Eastern District.

South-west by the Eastern District.

South and south-east by the Town of Dunedin District to the Harbour of Otago; thence by the Harbour to the Town Belt of Port Chalmers; thence by the Town Belt again to the Harbour; and thence by the Harbour; north-east by the Ocean.

5. Central District—
   North-east by the Northern District.
   North and North-west by the Ocean and the Province of Canterbury.
   South-west by the Taieri river from its mouth to its junction with the Waihola.