Otago Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 232

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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.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.

VOL. VI.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1863. [No. 232

BYE-LAWS

AGREED TO by the TOWN BOARD of Dunedin, at General Meetings held January 13th, January 20th, and January 27th, 1863.

  1. A duly qualified legal adviser shall be appointed, with such salary as may be agreed upon, whose duties shall be to advise and protect the Board in the discharge of the functions devolving upon it, and to attend any meeting of the Board to which he may be summoned.

  2. The Treasurer for the time being, and three other members of the Board, to be appointed by ballot in December of each year, shall be a Standing Committee of Finance, who shall transact all the ordinary financial business of the Board, and lay before it, at least once in three months, a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the funds of the Board.

  3. It shall be competent for the Finance Committee to authorise the Treasurer to pay all accounts for works or other matters, and to negotiate any loans or advances in anticipation of the ordinary or extraordinary revenues of the Board, which may have been agreed to at an ordinary meeting of the Board.

  4. In December of each year, a Committee of Works, to consist of one member for each ward, shall be appointed by ballot, whose duties shall be to consider and report upon all Memorials and Requisitions presented to the Board for Works of general or special improvement of the Town; to see that all works authorised by the Board are at once put in progress, and to prepare and lay before the Board, at least once in every month, a report of the progress of all such works.

  5. The Committee of Works shall have the general management of all matters connected with the Engineer’s Department.

  6. In December of each year a Committee of Public Reserves, to consist of four Members of the Board, shall be appointed by Ballot, to whose care the general management of all Public Reserves and Cemeteries, now or at any time to be under the charge of the Board, shall be committed.

28th February, 1863.—Approved and confirmed by

J. RICHARDSON,
Superintendent of Otago.



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🏘️ Dunedin Town Board Bye-Laws

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
28 February 1863
Bye-Laws, Dunedin Town Board, Committees, Finance, Works, Public Reserves
  • J. L. C. Richardson, Superintendent
  • J. Richardson, Superintendent of Otago