Otago Provincial Gazette – 1865 – No. 372

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✨ Proclamation of Governor's Assent

NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. IX. DUNEDIN, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1865. No. 372.

PROCLAMATION

Of the Governor having assented to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865.”

WHEREAS in the Twentieth Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, held in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, there was passed by the said Council the following Bill (that is to say),

“Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865.”

And whereas the said Bill was on the eighteenth day of May last presented to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, for the assent of the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand; and whereas the said Superintendent did declare that he reserved the said Bill for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon: And whereas the said Bill has been laid before the said Governor, and he has assented to the same.

Now therefore I, the Honorable John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Speaker of the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago, Acting-Superintendent of the said Province, do hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the “Superintendent’s Deputy Act, 1856,” proclaim and declare that the said Bill has been laid before the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and that he has assented to the same.

Given under my hand, and the seal of the

(L.S.) Province of Otago, this third day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

J. L. C. RICHARDSON,
Acting-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

By His Honor’s command,

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by David Campbell, of Dunedin, New Zealand, Printer to said Provincial Government for the time being.

VUW Te Waharoa — Otago Provincial Gazette 1865, No 372

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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Governor's Assent to Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated3 July 1865
KeywordsProclamation, Governor's Assent, Municipal Corporations Ordinance, Otago
👩‍💼 Officials

John Larkins Cheese Richardson, Acting-Superintendent of the Province of Otago
Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary

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