Otago Provincial Gazette – 1861 – No. 129

Page 131

✨ Provincial Government Proclamation

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.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1861. [No. 129.

PROCLAMATION.

By JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the session thereof holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was amongst other things enacted that for each of the Provinces established in the said Colony by the said Act there should be a Superintendent and a Provincial Council, to be elected and constituted under and subject to the provisions in that behalf therein contained, and that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of any of the said Provinces to prorogue the Provincial Council thereof, from time to time, whenever he should deem it expedient so to do:

Now, therefore, I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, (one of the Provinces aforesaid,) do proclaim and declare that I do hereby, in pursuance of the power vested in me in that behalf by the said Act, prorogue the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago, and that the said Provincial Council is prorogued accordingly.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the said Province, at Dunedin, in the Province aforesaid, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

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

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🏘️ Proclamation proroguing the Provincial Council of Otago

Domain🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
Dated5 January 1861
KeywordsProclamation, Provincial Council, Prorogation, Otago, Superintendent
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James Macandrew, Superintendent

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