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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.
By His Honor’s Command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. VI.] WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1863. [No. 279.
WARRANT
Appointing Commissioners to enquire into and receive evidence upon the question of Roads and their deviations throughout the Province of Otago.
By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.
To all to whom these Presents shall come,
GREETING:
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, made and passed in the twenty-second year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled the “Highways and Watercourses Diversion Act, 1858,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, by any Law or Ordinance to be made or ordained for that purpose, to authorise and empower the Superintendent to divert or stop up any public street, road, highway, or thoroughfare in any such Province: And also to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of, the Land over which any such public street, road, highway, or thoroughfare was laid out or passed: And whereas divers public streets, roads, highways, and thoroughfares have been diverted and made to pass over other lands: And whereas there is reason to believe that agreements have been at various times made and entered into by and between the owners of lands over which the roads have been diverted and made to pass of the one part, and one James Adam, Roads Claim Commissioner, or the General Road Board of Otago of the other part: And whereas no evidence or insufficient evidence of such agreements exists, and it is desirable that evidence of such agreements should be obtained: And whereas with a view to the obtaining more perfect evidence of such agreements, and to the obtaining information necessary for the preparation of a Bill to be presented to the Provincial Council of Otago at its next sitting, authorising the Superintendent to divert roads, and to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of such land as aforesaid, I have deemed it expedient to appoint a Commission to enquire into and obtain the said evidence and to exercise the powers and perform the duties necessary for that purpose;
Now Know Ye, that I, John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the said Province, do hereby appoint
JOHN HARDY, Esq., M.P.C.,
GEORGE HEPBURN, Esq., M.P.C.,
GEORGE DUNCAN, Esq., M.P.C., Secretary of Public Works,
to be Commissioners to obtain and receive evidence of any agreements, and of the terms thereof, that may have been made and entered into by and between the owners of lands over which roads have been diverted and have been made to pass of the one part, and the said James Adam or the Otago General Road Board of the other part, and generally to act as such Commissioners to enquire into and receive
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1863, No 279
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🏛️ Appointment of Commissioners for Road Enquiries
🏛️ Governance & Central AdministrationCommissioners, Road Enquiries, Otago Province
- John Hardy (Esquire, M.P.C.), Appointed Commissioner
- George Hepburn (Esquire, M.P.C.), Appointed Commissioner
- George Duncan (Esquire, M.P.C.), Appointed Commissioner
- John Hyde Harris, Superintendent of the Province of Otago
- Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary