Otago Provincial Gazette – 1865 – No. 387

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✨ Provincial Government Proclamation



NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. IX. DUNEDIN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1865. No. 387.

PROCLAMATION.

Prorogation of the Provincial Council to the ninth day of November next.

By His Honor Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the Session thereof, holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it was, inter alia, enacted that for each of the Provinces established in the said Colony by the said Act, there should be a Superintendent and a Provincial Council, to be elected and constituted under and subject to the provisions in that behalf therein contained, and that it should be lawful for the Superintendent to prorogue the Provincial Council thereof from time to time whenever he shall deem it expedient to do so: And whereas on the eighteenth day of May last, John

Hyde Harris, Esquire, then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, declared the Provincial Council of Otago to stand prorogued until Wednesday, the eleventh day of October then next ensuing:

Now therefore I, the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do proclaim and declare that I do hereby, in exercise of the power vested in me in this behalf by the said Act, further prorogue the Provincial Council of the said Province of Otago; and that the said Provincial Council is further prorogued until the ninth day of November next.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago,

(L.S.)

at Dunedin, the ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

Thomas Dick,
Superintendent.

By his Honor's command,

Frederick Walker,
Provincial Secretary.

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



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🏛️ Prorogation of the Provincial Council

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
9 October 1865
Prorogation, Provincial Council, Otago
  • Thomas Dick (Esquire), Superintendent of the Province of Otago
  • John Hyde Harris (Esquire), Former Superintendent of the Province of Otago

  • Thomas Dick, Superintendent
  • Frederick Walker, Provincial Secretary