Otago Provincial Gazette – 1860 – No. 101

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✨ Proclamation of Superintendent Election

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.

Vol. IV.] TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1860. [No. 101.

PROCLAMATION,

By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

IN virtue of a Writ issued by the Governor of New Zealand to the Principal Returning Officer of the Province of Otago, requiring and commanding him to cause to be elected by the Voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form by law prescribed, a legally qualified person to serve as Superintendent for the said Province of Otago : And whereas the said Principal Returning Officer did, upon this third day of January 1860, at a Meeting fixed and notified by him for the purpose of nominating one person to serve as Superintendent for the said Province, openly declare and publicly notify that I, JAMES MACANDREW, Esq., was duly elected to be Superintendent of the Province of Otago. Now therefore, I do hereby proclaim and declare, that I have assumed the office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago accordingly, and I hereby call upon the inhabitants of the said Province to be aiding and assisting me therein.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this third day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty.

(L.S.)

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

Printed for the Provincial Government by D. CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.

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🏘️ Proclamation of the election of James Macandrew as Superintendent of the Province of Otago

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated3 January 1860
KeywordsProclamation, Superintendent, Otago, Election, Provincial Government
👱🏽 Names

James Macandrew (Esquire), Elected and assumed office as Superintendent of the Province of Otago

👩‍💼 Officials

James Macandrew, Superintendent

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