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nance should be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality: And whereas a petition of sixty-one persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in the township of West Hawksbury, 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 West Hawksbury, by and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of West Hawksbury, 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 those specified in the third Schedule hereto. And I do hereby with the advice of my said Executive Council, declare that the said 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.

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 West Hawksbury, 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 West Hawksbury, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the sections.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of West Hawksbury as delineated on the Record Maps of the said Town, deposited in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds in Dunedin, in the said Province.

All that area situate in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement 200 acres more or less, being part of an allotment of land sold under application 246, and now known as section 15, block VI, Hawksbury District, bounded towards the north by the Main North Road, 4100 links; towards the east by the Government Township of Hawksbury, 8000 links; towards the south by land sold to John Jones, 2000 links; and towards the west by the other part of section 15, block VI, Hawksbury District aforesaid, 7500 links, be all the said linkages more or less, as the same is delineated on the Maps of the said Township of West Hawksbury, deposited in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds at Dunedin.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Ward Boundaries, Incorporated Town of West Hawksbury.

EAST WARD comprises all that area situate in the Township of West Hawksbury, bounded towards the north by the Town Boundary, towards the east by the Town Boundary, towards the south by the Town Boundary, and towards the west by a line up the centre of Beach-street, extending from the southern boundary of the Township to the Main North Road.

WEST WARD comprises all the remaining portion of the Township of West Hawksbury, not being included in the description of East Ward.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Otago, at (L.S.) Dunedin, this twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

THOMAS DICK.
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,

H. J. MILLER,
Provincial Secretary.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF WEST HAWKSBURY.

Appointment of James Burns to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the Incorporated Town of West Hawksbury.

WHEREAS the Town of West Hawksbury was, by Proclamation of even date herewith, and published in the Otago Government Gazette, No. 417, incorporated by the name of the “Corporation of the Town of West Hawksbury,” and certain provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” were by such Proclamation extended to and declared applicable to and within the Municipality thereby created: And whereas by the 117th section of the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” it is amongst other things enacted, that for the purposes of the first elections under the said Ordinance of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors for any town or place to which the provisions of the said Ordinance, or any of them, should be extended, as therein provided, the Superintendent of Otago for the time being should appoint some fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for such town and places, the expense of which should be borne and paid by the Council of the town or place elected thereunder, for which any such Citizens’ Roll should be prepared: And whereas James Burns of West Hawksbury, has been represented to me as a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said Incorporated Town of West Hawksbury;—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,”