reserved the said Bills for the signification of the Governor’s pleasure thereon: And whereas the said Bills have been laid before the said Governor, and he has assented to the same: Now therefore I, the said Thomas Dick, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim that the said Bills have been laid before His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, and that he has assented to the same.

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

(L.S) THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
FREDERICK J. MOSS,
In the absence of the Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION
Of the Municipality of Cromwell.

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 modifications 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 fifty-seven persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in the Township of Cromwell, 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 Cromwell, by and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Cromwell, 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 Bridge Ward and Kawarau 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 Cromwell, 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 Cromwell, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the Sections.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Cromwell, as delineated on the Record Maps of the said Town, deposited in the Survey Office in Dunedin, in the said Province.

All that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement six hundred (600) acres, more or less, bounded towards the north by a line commencing on the west bank of the Clutha River, and proceeding in a westerly direction, with a magnetic bearing of 269° 25′ to the north-east corner of Cemetery Reserve, 4100 links; thence along a line in the same direction, 7100 links; thence by a line at a right angle in a southerly direction, 6940 links; thence by a line at a right angle in an easterly direction to the Kawarau River, 4900 links; thence along the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers to the starting point, as delineated on the Record Map of the said Town, deposited in the Survey Office at Dunedin.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

Ward Boundaries, Incorporated Town of Cromwell.

BRIDGE WARD comprises all that area bounded towards the west by a line commencing at a point on the north bank of the Kawarau River opposite the centre of Murray-street, thence to and along the centre