✨ Provincial Proclamation
OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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.
W. CARGILL, Superintendent.
Vol. III.] SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1857. [No. 53.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor William Cargill, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
WHEREAS by an Ordinance passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled “An Ordinance to establish and regulate Ferries, Session I., No. 8,” it is among other things enacted that “It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to authorise Ferries to be established and erected at convenient places on the rivers, creeks, and lakes within the Province of Otago, for the conveyance of passengers, animals, and goods across the same;” and whereas by section 3 of the “Ferries Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856,” passed by the said Superintendent and Council, it is enacted that “Every Ferry shall be deemed to be a Public Ferry within the meaning of this Ordinance, which shall be proclaimed to be such by the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by proclamation to be inserted in the Provincial Government Gazette;” and whereas it is expedient that the Ferry established on the Clutha River at or near Iwikiatea, and known by the name of the Clutha Ferry, should be proclaimed a Public Ferry: Now therefore I, the said Superintendent, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, do hereby, in virtue of the powers vested in me by the said Ordinances, proclaim the said Ferry to be a Public Ferry within the meaning of the before recited “Ferries Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1856.”
Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Government House, Dunedin, this fourth day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-seven.
(L.S.)
W. Cargill,
Superintendent.
God Save the Queen!
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1857, No 53
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🏛️ Proclamation of Clutha Ferry as a Public Ferry
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration4 May 1857
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- William Cargill, Superintendent