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NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VOL. IX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1865. No. 870
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

RESIGNATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT ACCEPTED.

THE following communication is published for general information.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1865.

SIR,—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th June, 1865, (date quoted in the margin) tendering the resignation of your Office as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and, in reply, to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased this day to accept such resignation.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient servant,

FRED. A. WELD.

J. HYDE HARRIS, Esquire,
&c. &c.
Dunedin.

PROCLAMATION

By the Honorable JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON, Speaker of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, New Zealand, assuming the office of Superintendent of the said Province.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled, “An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that on any vacancy occasioned in the office of Superintendent of one of the Provinces of New Zealand by the resignation of such Superintendent, such resignation being accepted by the Governor of the said Colony on behalf of Her Majesty, a new election shall take place :

AND WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor did on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, accept on behalf of Her Majesty the resignation of John Hyde Harris, Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of Otago :

AND WHEREAS until a new Election to such office of Superintendent of the Province of Otago shall have taken place, a vacancy exists in such office.

AND WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, entitled “Superintendent’s Deputy Act 1856,” it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any vacancy other than therein provided shall arise, from death, resignation, or otherwise, in the office of the Superintendent of any Province, all the acts and powers which may be performed and exercised by the Superintendent of any such Province (except such powers as are conferred by the Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 72) shall, during such vacancy (unless a deputy, as mentioned in the recited Act of the General Assembly shall at the time exist in such Province) be performed and exercised by the Speaker of the Provincial Council thereof.

AND WHEREAS no such deputy as before referred to exists in the Province of Otago,

NOW THEREFORE I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Speaker of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, by virtue of the authority by the said recited Act of the General Assembly in me vested, have, from the twenty-third day of June instant, assumed all the acts and powers which may be performed and exercised by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, (except such powers as are conferred by the said “Constitution Act.”)

Given under my hand, this twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Speaker of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago.