MEETING OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor JAMES MACANDREW, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf, I do hereby Fix and Proclaim that the twenty-third Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, shall be holden within the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, in the said Province, and shall commence upon Wednesday, the first day of May next, at twelve o’clock noon; and the Members of the said Council are hereby warned to give their attendance at such time and place accordingly.

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

L.S.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

By His Honor’s command,

JOHN MOUAT,
Provincial Secretary.

NORTH EAST VALLEY ROAD DISTRICT.—Notice is hereby given that a memorial from Settlers in Upper Harbor West District was laid before the General Road Board, at the last monthly meeting, asking for the formation of a new Road District, to be called the Havant Road District, which said new Road District is proposed to be comprised within the following boundaries, viz.—commencing at the southern angle of Section 10, Upper Harbor West, Survey District, and bounded on the north and west by the said Section 10, and by Sections 4, 37, 32, 31, 27, 28, 29, 30, and portion of 50, Block 9, North Harbor and Blueskin, to the Dunedin Town Belt. Thence, by the Dunedin Town Belt to Pelichet Bay; thence on the south and south-east, by the coast line of Upper Harbor to the Starting Point, at the southern angle of Section 10, Upper Harbor, west.

And notice is hereby further given that the General Road Board will, at a meeting to be held at Dunedin, on Thursday, 2nd May, 1867, at 11 o’clock, proceed to consider such application, and hear objections (if any), to the granting of same.

JAMES DOUGHTY, Clerk General Road Board.

NOTICE.—It is hereby notified that the Assessment Roll of the Wangaloa District can be seen at my house, on every day (Tuesday excepted) between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

ALEXANDER MITCHELL.

March 25, 1867.

The following Rules and Regulations have been submitted to the Superintendent and Executive Council, in terms of the “Cemetery Reserve Management Ordinance, 1864,” and are published for general information.

9th April, 1867.

ANDERSON’S BAY CEMETERY.—RULES AND REGULATIONS.

1. All charges must be paid in advance when orders are given.

2. Any person or persons making a vault, placing a tombstone, or erecting a monument in the Cemetery, by and with the permission of the Managers for the time being, and upon payment of the required charges, shall maintain, and keep up such vault, tombstone, or monument, according to the terms of such permission, to and for the sole and separate use of such person or persons, heirs, near relations, and friends for ever.

3. Application for such permission must be made to the Secretary, or to one of the Managers; and a certificate of such permission, in the form in Schedule B, or to the like effect, may be granted to the party applying for such permission, on payment of the charges in Schedule A.

4. The cost and charges of the burial of any person in such Cemetery, will be remitted, on proof being given to the satisfaction of the Managers that such person was a pauper at the time of his death, and that there are no funds applicable, and no person is liable for the payment of costs and charges.

5. Orders for interment must be given to the Sexton at least six working hours prior to the hour fixed for the funeral, otherwise an extra charge will be made in forms of Schedule A. No free interment will be allowed without the above notice of six hours.

6. The Managers will cause all ordinary graves to be dug, but parties desiring brick graves or vaults will be required to construct them under the direction of a Surveyor appointed by the Managers, and in case interment is to be made in any private grave or vault, the consent in writing of the party entitled thereto, must be left with the order.

7. The information required by Schedule C, must be stated at the time of giving the order.

8. The time fixed for the funeral must be the time when the procession is to be at the Cemetery, and the same must be punctually observed.

9. Until otherwise ordered, the usual hours fixed for funerals will be from 8 o’clock a.m. to 5 o’clock p.m. from the 1st day of September to the 30th day of April, and from 8 o’clock a.m. to 4 o’clock p.m. in the other four months of the year, except on Sundays, when the usual and only funerals will be from 2 to 5 o’clock p.m. throughout the year. No funeral will be allowed to take place between the hours of 7 o’clock p.m. and 7 o’clock a.m.

10. All monuments, vaults, graves, and gravestones must be kept in repair and proper condition by and at the expense of the owners.

11. Every coffin in a vault, or brick grave must be bricked in, cemented, and covered by a slab of stone, slate, or iron; and every coffin in a private grave must have on the lid a metal plate, with the name of the deceased stamped or painted thereon.

12. A drawing of every stone, tomb, pedestal, and plan of every fence, monument, or tablet proposed to be erected, and a copy of every epitaph or inscription, must be submitted to the Managers, and approved of by them.

13. No servant or any other person employed by or engaged in any duty on behalf of the Managers, shall receive any gratuity, under penalty of dismissal.

14. The ground will be open daily to the public from sunrise to sunset.

15. A plan of the Cemetery, showing the situation of the graves, shall be kept by the Secretary, and may be inspected on payment of the charge mentioned in Schedule A; and registers of all grants shall be kept by the Secretary.

16. The Sexton shall have power to expel from the cemetery, or to take into custody (as the case may require) any person who shall behave indecorously, or commit any trespass or injury to the trees, flowers, erections, or otherwise infringe the Ordinance relating to the Cemetery, or the Regulations for the protection of the same; and such person shall be proceeded against according to the provisions of the “Cemeteries Reserve Management Ordinance, 1864.”

17. No funeral will be allowed to take place in the Cemetery without a certificate from a Deputy Registrar of Deaths, or the Coroner holding the inquest or inquiry, or a Magistrate; and such certificate must be