PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of Milton.

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

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Ordinance to Amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," it is amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice of his Executive Council, and he was thereby authorised and required, on the petition of not less than fifty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in any Township within the Province, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, to extend the provisions of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," to such Township, by such name or incorporation as he should deem fit, with such modification as to the names and number of the members of such proposed Corporation, and the Office-bearers thereof, and any other municipal matters and regulations as should seem to such Superintendent and his Executive Council suitable for the area and population of such Municipality; and, in accordance with such petition or otherwise, should define the boundaries of the Municipality so created, and declare the number of Wards into which such Municipality might be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance should be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality: And whereas a petition of sixty persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in the Township of Milton, in the said Province of Otago, has been presented to me, Thomas Dick, as Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the provisions of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," may be extended to the said Township: Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice of my Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare, that from and after the day of the date hereof, the provisions of the said "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," specified in the first Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said Township of Milton, by and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Milton, and shall be applicable to and within the Municipality hereby created. And I do, with the like advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that such of the said provisions as are contained in the sections of the said last-mentioned Ordinance, specified in the first column of the second Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said Township, and be applicable to the Municipality hereby created, with and subject to the respective modifications contained herein, and in the second column of the said second Schedule hereto. And I hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare, that the boundaries of the Municipality hereby created shall be divided into two Wards, to be known respectively as East Ward and West Ward, and that the boundaries of the said Wards shall be those respectively defined in the fourth Schedule hereto.

SOUTH WARD comprises all that area bounded towards the north-west by East and West Wards; towards the north-east by the Town Boundary; towards the south-east by the Town Boundary; and towards the south-west by the Town Boundary.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin this tenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

Thomas Dick,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
H. J. Miller,
Provincial Secretary.

FIRST SCHEDULE

The Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," containing the provisions of the said Ordinance, extended to and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Milton, that is to say, Sections numbered 6 to 11, both inclusive, Sections numbered 13 to 27, both inclusive, Sections numbered 29 to 97, both inclusive, Sections numbered 99 to 113, both inclusive, and Sections numbered 116 and 122 respectively.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," applicable to the Incorporated Town of Milton, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the Sections.

THIRD SCHEDULE

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Milton, as delineated on the five several Maps of the said Town, deposited in the Registrar of Deeds Office in Dunedin, in the said Province, by Peter M'Gill, James Smith, James Elder Brown, William Steel Smith Reid, and George Elder Brown, respectively.

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement 183a. 3r. 31p., more or less, being sections numbered respectively 134, 135, and 137, block XVII, Tokomairiro Survey District, and parts of sections numbered respectively 130, 131, and 132, block XVI, Tokomairiro Survey District, together with part of section numbered 102, block XII, of the said District, bounded towards the north-west by a line commencing at the western corner of section 134, block XVII, Tokomairiro District, proceeding in a north-easterly direction along the Main South Road one thousand and three (1003) links, thence crossing the Main South Road at a right angle in a north-westerly direction to a point two hundred and fourteen (214) links distant from the north-western side of the Main South Road, thence at a right angle in a north-easterly direction two hundred and thirty-five (235) links, thence at a right angle in a north-westerly direction three hundred and forty-six (346) links, thence at a right angle in a north-easterly direction one thousand six hundred and sixty-two (1662) links, thence at a right angle in a south-easterly direction.