OTAGO
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE.

VOL. X. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1866. No. 424
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

WARRANT
Appointing Officers for the revision of the Citizens’ Lists, and for other purposes in certain Incorporated Towns in the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the several Towns or Places hereinafter mentioned have been incorporated under the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865:” And whereas by the 113th Section of the said Ordinance, it is amongst other things enacted that in cases where no special provision is made for the conduct of the first Elections under the said Ordinance, it should be lawful for the Superintendent of Otago to appoint such and so many persons as might be necessary to perform any of the said Acts in the said Ordinance, before required to be done by the Mayor, Councillors, Town Clerk, Collector, or other Officers, before such Officers could be appointed or elected under the provisions of the said Ordinance: And whereas by the 40th Section of the said Ordinance, the Mayor and Councillors of any Town incorporated under the said Ordinance (in the said Section called the Council), are constituted open Courts for the revision of the Citizens’ Lists, and for hearing and determining the claims of the Citizens thereof to be inserted in such Lists, and the objections of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon: And whereas it is expedient to appoint fit and proper persons to perform the acts required to be done by the Mayor and Councillors as constituting Courts of Revision under the said 40th Section of the said Ordinance, and to do the several other matters and things directed and required by the said Ordinance in the revision of the Citizens’ Lists for the several Incorporated Towns in the Province of Otago aftermentioned;—Now therefore I, Thomas Dick, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” and of all other powers in any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint the following persons respectively to perform the acts required to be done by the Council in the revision of the Citizens’ Lists, and hearing and determining the claims of the Citizens thereof to be inserted in such Lists, and the objections of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon, each for the Incorporated Town mentioned and specified immediately after his name, that is to say:—

JOHN DEWE, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of Milton.

THOMAS WINDLE PARKER, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of Oamaru.

HENRY WIRGAM ROBINSON, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of Clyde.

HENRY ALDBOROUGH STRATFORD, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of Cromwell.

THOMAS ANESTY MANSFORD, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of Port Chalmers.

RICHARD BEETHAM, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of Queenstown.

JOHN WALLACE MURDOCH, Esquire, to perform such acts for the Incorporated Town of West Hawksbury.

As witness my hand, this twelfth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent of Otago.

CORRECTION.—Meteorological Observations: Page 105, line 33, for “29.809” read “29.089.”