Election Appointments and Legislative Acts




[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 23, June 25, 1864.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 19th June 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned Gentlemen to be Deputies to the Principal Returning Officers for the Provinces set opposite their names, for the Election of Superintendents.

John Burnside, Otago.

William Fox.


Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 9th June, 1864.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned Gentlemen to be Deputies to the Returning Officers, for the Electoral Districts set opposite their names.

Wm. Fox.

For the Election of Members of the House of Representatives.

    • John Burnside ... Dunedin and North Suburbs
      John Smith Hickson ... Dunedin and South Suburbs
      Edward Thomas Gillon ... Gold Fields
      Francis Franks ... Tokomairiro
    • ... Hampden

For the Election of Members of the Provincial Council.

    • James Todd ... East Taieri
      John Watt ... Wakatipu
      John Burnside ... Dunedin
    • ... Wakari
    • ... North Harbour
    • ... Green Island
      James White ... Caversham
    • ... Waihola
      John Young Ward ... Oamaru Town
    • ... Oamaru Country

[From the New Zealand Gazette, No. 23, June 25, 1864.]

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Acts of the General Assembly which Her Majesty has not been advised to disallow.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 24th June, 1864.

THE following Acts, passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand in the Session held in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled:

No. 1. An Act to annex Stewart’s Island, in the Colony of New Zealand, to the Province of Southland.

No. 2. An Act to continue the Arms Act, 1860 (Temporary).

No. 3. An Act to amend the Nelson Trust Funds Act, 1854.

No. 4. An Act to amend the Colonial Defences Force Act, 1862.

No. 6. An Act to enable Superintendents of Provinces to take and hold Land as Bodies Corporate.

No. 13. An Act to prescribe the mode in which Land shall be taken for Works and Undertakings of a Public Nature.

No. 14. An Act to enable the Governors of Nelson College to sell or exchange certain Trust Property vested in them by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled Nelson College Trust Act, 1858.

No. 15. An Act to extend the operation of the Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Act, 1856, to Freehold and Leasehold Property held by way of Mortgage.

No. 16. An Act to amend the Native Purposes Appropriation Act, 1862.

No. 17. An Act to amend the Miners’ Representation Act, 1862.

No. 18. An Act to amend the Secondary Punishment Act, 1854.

No. 19. An Act to amend the Sheriff’s Act, 1858.

No. 20. An Act for the amendment of the Regulation of Elections Act, 1858.

No. 21. An Act to repeal an act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled An Act for amending the Interpretation Act, 1858, and for defining the time when Acts of the General Assembly shall come into operation.

No. 22. An Act for the better apprehension of Offenders who shall have escaped to parts within the Colony of New Zealand, from any other of the Australasian Colonies.

No. 23. An Act to enable the Governor to grant to the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland the Government House Grounds in Auckland.

No. 24. An Act to enable the Superintendent of Wellington to purchase a certain piece of land near the City of Wellington as a site for the erection of a Patent Slip.

No. 25. An Act to amend the law relating to Juries.

No. 26. An Act to amend the law relating to the Registration of Deeds and Titles to Land.

No. 27. An Act to authorise the issue of Crown Grants of certain Lands situate at Tikokino, in the Province of Hawke’s Bay.

No. 30. An Act to amend the Gold Fields Act, 1862.

No. 33. An Act to extend and make compulsory the Practice of Vaccination.

No. 35. An Act to apply certain sums out of the ordinary Revenue and other moneys to the service of the year ending the 30th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

No. 36. An Act for the Naturalisation of certain persons in the Colony of New Zealand.


PRIVATE ACTS.

No. 1. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland to raise money by way of Debentures on security of the Harbour Endowments of the City and Port of Auckland.

No. 2. An Act to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland to construct a Railway between the Towns of Auckland and Drury, with a branch to Onehunga in the said Province.

No. 3. An Act to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Southland to make and maintain Branches or Extensions of the Bluff Harbour and Invercargill Railway, and for other purposes.

Having been laid before the Queen in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, His Excellency the Governor has been informed by the Secretary of State that Her Majesty will not be advised to exercise her power of disallowance with respect to those Acts.

William Fox.

Printed for the Provincial Government by Harnett and Co., Manse Street, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.




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🏛️ Appointment of Deputy Returning Officers for Superintendents Election

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
19 June 1864
Deputies, Returning Officers, Superintendents, Election, Otago, Auckland
  • John Burnside, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • William Fox, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer

  • William Fox

🏛️ Appointment of Deputy Returning Officers for House of Representatives and Provincial Council

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
9 June 1864
Deputies, Returning Officers, House of Representatives, Provincial Council, Dunedin, Gold Fields, Tokomairiro, Hampden, East Taieri, Wakatipu, Wakari, North Harbour, Green Island, Caversham, Waihola, Oamaru
8 names identified
  • John Burnside, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • John Smith Hickson, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • Edward Thomas Gillon, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • Francis Franks, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • James Todd, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • John Watt, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • James White, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer
  • John Young Ward, Appointed Deputy Returning Officer

  • William Fox

🏛️ Notification of Acts Passed by the General Assembly

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
24 June 1864
Legislation, General Assembly, Acts, Disallowance, Stewart’s Island, Arms Act, Nelson Trust Funds, Colonial Defences Force, Superintendents, Land Acquisition, Nelson College, Religious Charitable and Educational Trusts, Native Purposes Appropriation, Miners’ Representation, Secondary Punishment, Sheriff’s Act, Regulation of Elections, Interpretation Act, Offenders, Government House Grounds, Patent Slip, Juries, Registration of Deeds, Crown Grants, Gold Fields, Vaccination, Naturalisation, Auckland, Southland, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay
  • William Fox

🏛️ Notification of Private Acts Passed by the General Assembly

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
24 June 1864
Legislation, Private Acts, Debentures, Harbour Endowments, Railway, Bluff Harbour, Invercargill, Auckland, Drury, Onehunga, Southland
  • William Fox