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power relative to the execution of his office, such Justice shall commit him to the common gaol, there to remain until he shall make and give a true and perfect account, and verify the same in manner aforesaid, and shall produce and deliver up the vouchers relating thereto, or until he shall deliver up such books, papers and writings, tools, matters, and things, as aforesaid, or have given satisfaction to the Town Board concerning the same; and the Town Board shall have power to make and receive composition for such matters and things, as well as for any money due and unpaid by any such officer.

23. It shall be lawful for the Town Board to borrow any sum or sums of money requisite for the execution of any undertaking to be entrusted to them by any Ordinance of the Provincial Council, and for securing repayment of such borrowed money with interest, to grant assignments in the form or to the effect set forth in the schedule hereto appended, of any assessments, rates, dues, or money authorised by any such Ordinance to be levied; and the said Board are hereby required to lay out and apply the money so borrowed, and such assessments only for their proper purposes, in pursuance of any such Ordinance; which assignments it shall be lawful to the grantees or others entitled to the money thereby secured, to transfer by indorsement in the form or to the effect also set forth in said schedule; and every indorsee may in like manner indorse the same; and all persons to whom any such assignments or indorsements shall be made, as aforesaid, and producing the same for entry in the books of the Town Board, shall be creditors on the assessments, rates, or dues specified in the aforesaid assignments, in equal degree one with another, or in such order as shall have been agreed upon at the time of the advance of their respective shares.

24. The members of the Town Board shall not be held or adjudged to have made themselves personally liable for the repayment of any money borrowed, or interest thereof, by reason of having signed any securities as aforesaid.

25. The Town Board shall have power, and are hereby authorised, to make all such Bye-laws as may appear to the Board to be necessary for fully carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance, and of any other Ordinance, the execution whereof may be devolved on the Board; provided always that such Bye-laws shall not be repugnant to the provisions of such Ordinances, and shall

be submitted to the Superintendent and Provincial Council; and upon being approved shall have the same force and effect as if they had been inserted in any such Ordinance.

Passed the Provincial Council
this seventeenth day of July,
one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Clerk of Council.

Assented to on behalf of the Governor, at Dunedin, the eighteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.

ASSIGNMENT.

By virtue of an Ordinance passed by the Provincial Legislature of the Province of Otago, entitled “An Ordinance to constitute a Public Board for the Town of Dunedin,” We, a quorum of the Members of the said Town Board, in consideration of the sum of __ advanced and paid to __ for behoof of the said Town Board, do hereby grant and assign to A. B. and his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, (here specify the matter and day of __ signed) to be held from this __ day of __, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and __, until the said sum of __, with interest after the rate of __ per centum per annum, shall be paid and discharged.—In witness whereof we have respectively hereunto subscribed our names this __ day of __ 1855.

INDORSEMENT.

I, A. B., do hereby transfer all my right in the within written Assignment and his (or my) Executors, Administrators, and Assigns.

DUNEDIN TOWN BOARD.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

IN pursuance of the Dunedin Town Board Ordinance, Sess. II. No. 12, I, the SUPERINTENDENT of the Province of Otago, do hereby appoint the Electors entitled to vote for Members for the Town of Dunedin, in the Provincial Council of Otago to assemble upon Thursday, the 16th day of August 1855, at 12 o’clock noon, within the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institution, Princes Street, Dunedin, for the purpose of electing the Members of the said Town Board: And further, in pursuance of said Ordinance, I hereby appoint ALFRED CHETHAM STRODE, Esquire, of Dunedin, R.M., to preside at said Meeting. And in the event of a Poll being demanded, I hereby appoint the Polling to take place in the said Hall of the Mechanics’ Institution, on Monday, the 20th August, 1855.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

Provincial Government House.
Dunedin, 2nd August 1855.

Printed for the Provincial Government by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin.