74

22.—Any five members of the Board shall form a quorum, and all questions before the Board shall be determined by the majority of votes, provided that the Chairman shall have no vote, unless in case of an equality of votes, when he shall have a casting vote; and provided also, that in case of a quorum, shall not assemble within one half hour after the time appointed for any meeting, or having so assembled, shall disperse, the Board shall stand adjourned till the next day at the same hour.

23.—In case of the absence of the Chairman it shall be lawful for the members present, being a quorum, to appoint an Acting-Chairman, who, during such absence, may exercise the powers of the Chairman.

SCHEDULE A.

Mining District of Candidates names

A. B.
C. D.
&c., &c.

The voter is to strike out the name or names of the candidates for whom he does not intend to vote by drawing a line through the same with a pen or pencil.

He must be careful not to leave uncancelled the names of more than the number of candidates to be elected, otherwise his ballot paper will be invalid.

The ballot paper so marked by or for the voter is to be dropped by him into the ballot box.

The voter is not to be permitted to take his ballot paper out of the polling room.

CAUTION.

Government Offices,
Dunedin, August 25th, 1869.

Miners and others proceeding to the Gold Field reported to have been discovered by Messrs. Hartley and Reilly, are informed that provisions are not obtainable in the district in sufficient quantities to supply the requirements of a large population; and that it is impossible to convey the requisite supplies to the ground within the next fortnight. It should also be borne in mind that the Government have not yet received any intelligence confirmatory of the Prospectors’ statements, neither has the extent of the probable Gold Field been sufficiently ascertained.

The Public are therefore cautioned that it will be prudent to wait for further information before starting for the new Field. Those, however, who are uninfluenced by this consideration are recommended to take with them at least a fortnight’s supply of provisions.

John Hyde Harris,
Deputy Superintendent.

INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTER HOUSES APPOINTED.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 21st August, 1862.

His Honor the Deputy Superintendent directs it to be notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him, he has appointed Constable

Jeremiah Eagerty,

a member of the Police Force of the Province of Otago, to be Inspector of Slaughter Houses and of Cattle intended for slaughter within the Dunedin Slaughter House District.

And every person licensed, or to be licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Slaughter House Ordinance, Session VIII, No. 5, to keep a slaughter house within the said District, is hereby warned and required to give to the said Inspector, before he shall slaughter any horned or neat cattle, sheep, goats, and swine, six hours’ notice in writing of the cattle intended to be slaughtered, specifying the place and time, under a penalty of five pounds for each and every head of such cattle which shall be so slaughtered without such notice having been given.

By order,

J. L. C. Richardson,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

William H. Reynolds,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

B.

Form of Summons.

You are hereby summoned to appear on the day of ____ at the hour of ____ o’clock in the noon at ____ before the Board of Inquiry, appointed to try the validity of the election of ____ as a member of the Mining Board, and to give evidence therein (and when any documentary evidence is required insert here) and you are hereby required to produce at the same time and place the undermentioned documents relating to the matter of the said election. [Here insert the documents.]

To ____
Name of Witness ____
Description ____
Residence ____

Given under my hand this twenty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

J. L. C. Richardson,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.