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RESOLUTIONS

Of Provincial Council, anent Executive Government.

1. A Minute Book shall be kept of the proceedings of every Executive Council Meeting, in which shall be entered an Abstract of all decisions and of all monies authorised to be paid, not specially appropriated, by the Provincial Council; and the proceedings of the previous Meeting shall be examined at the next subsequent Meeting, and duly signed by the presiding officer.

2. All communications from Departmental Officers of the Provincial Government shall be addressed to the Provincial Secretary, or in such way as the Superintendent may direct.

3. All powers conferred on the Superintendent by Resolution, Act, Ordinance, or Delegation, shall be exercised by him solely under the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, excepting those powers the exercise of which are specially restricted to the Superintendent alone.

4. All communications with the Provincial Council shall be subjected to the approval of the Executive Council; nevertheless, the Superintendent shall have the power, by Message, in virtue of the elective character of his office, of directing to be laid on the table of the Provincial Council any Extract from the Minutes of the Executive Council, in which he shall have expressed an opinion in writing.

5. All Warrants authorising an Expenditure, for which no specific appropriation shall have been made, shall be duly signed by a Member of the Executive, not being the Treasurer, before such shall be paid, and shall bear the Auditor’s annotation, in red ink, of such being specially unappropriated.

ALEX. RENNIE,
Speaker.

Dec. 19th, 1862.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 22nd Dec., 1862.

I hereby assent to the above Resolutions.

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

WARRANT

APPOINTING DEPUTY-AUDITOR FOR THE PROVINCE OF OTAGO.

Appointment of Deputy-Auditor of Public Accounts of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by “The Provincial Audit Act, 1861,” it is enacted that the Superintendent and Provincial Council of every Province in New Zealand shall concur in the nomination of some fit and proper person to be Auditor of the Public Accounts, and also one other person to be the Deputy-Auditor; that the person so nominated for such Office shall thereupon be appointed by Warrant under the hand of the Speaker of the Council; and that in case of the death of such Auditor or Deputy-Auditor, the vacancy occurring thereby shall be filled up so often as it shall happen by appointment as therein directed; such appointment, if made on the nomination of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, being made within two months after the commencement of the Session of the Provincial Council next after the happening of such event.

And whereas by the death of Richard Grove Erlam, Esquire, the Office of Deputy-Auditor of the Public Accounts, of the Province of Otago has become vacant, and the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said Province have concurred in the nomination of Andrew Fleming, Esquire, of Dunedin, to the said office of Deputy-Auditor;

Now, therefore, I, Alexander Rennie, Speaker of the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago, in pursuance and exercise of the power vested in me by the said Act, do by this, my warrant, appoint Andrew Fleming, Esquire, of Dunedin, to be the Deputy-Auditor of the Public Accounts of the said Province of Otago.

Given under my hand, at Dunedin, this seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

ALEX. RENNIE,
Speaker of the Provincial Council,
Province of Otago.

INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTER-HOUSES APPOINTED.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 19th Dec., 1862.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him, he has appointed the several members of the Police Force of the Province of Otago, hereinafter named, to be Inspectors of Slaughter-Houses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter within the respective Slaughter-House Districts set above their names:—

Oamaru District, Dunstan Station,
WILLIAM CONNELL.

Tuapeka District, Waipori Station,
JOHN CAROLAN.

By order,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.