Otago Provincial Gazette – 1863 – No. 238

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✨ Proclamation of Election

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

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

JOHN HYDE HARRIS, Superintendent.

Vol. VI.] THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1863. [No. 238

PROCLAMATION

By the Honorable John Hyde Harris,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS a Writ was issued by the Governor of New Zealand to the Principal Returning Officer for the Electoral District 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 (after a Nomination on the 14th day of March ult., and a Poll on the 9th day of April current), the said Principal Returning Officer did, upon this 16th day of April, 1863, at a Meeting fixed and notified by him for that purpose at the Court-house, Dunedin, openly declare and publicly notify that I, the Honorable John Hyde Harris, 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 sixteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

VUW Te Waharoa — Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 238

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Proclamation of Election of Superintendent

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated16 April 1863
KeywordsElection, Superintendent, Proclamation, Otago Province
👱🏽 Names

John Hyde Harris (Honorable), Elected and proclaimed Superintendent

👩‍💼 Officials

John Hyde Harris, Superintendent

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