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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 List, and the objections of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon: And whereas it is expedient to appoint a fit and proper person 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’ List for the said Incorporated Town of Alexandra;—Now therefore I, James Macandrew, 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

JOHN CUMMING

to perform the acts required to be done by the Council in the revision of the Citizens’ List for the Town of Alexandra, and hearing and determining the claims of the Citizens thereof to be inserted in such List, and the objections of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon.

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

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

PROCLAMATION.

Increasing the Number of Wards in the Incorporated Town of Milton.

By His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago bearing date the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, Thomas Dick, Esquire, the then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, did, with the advice of his Executive Council, and in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him in that behalf amongst other things proclaim and declare, that from and after the day of the date of the said proclamation certain provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865” specified in the first schedule to the now reciting proclamation, should extend to the said Township of Milton by and under the name of the Corporation of the town of Milton, and should be applicable to and within the Municipality thereby created, and the said Superintendent with the advice aforesaid did by the said proclamation further declare that the said municipality thereby created should be divided into two Wards to be known respectively as East Ward and West Ward, and the boundaries of the said Wards should be those respectively defined in the fourth schedule to the said proclamation:—And whereas, by the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866,” it is amongst other things enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, from time to time to alter in any way he may think fit, the boundaries of any Municipality at any time proclaimed under the said therein recited Ordinance, and also to increase or diminish the number of Wards, and to name or alter the name and boundaries of any or every Ward of any such Municipality:—

And whereas it is expedient to increase the number of Wards in the said Municipality, and to alter the boundaries of the East Ward thereof as defined in the said Proclamation, in manner hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, with the advice and consent 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 thirty-first day of July next, the number of Wards into which the said Municipality is divided, shall be increased, and that from and after the said thirty-first day of July next, the said Municipality of Milton shall be divided into Three Wards, to be known respectively as East Ward, South Ward, and West Ward, and that the boundaries of the said Wards shall, from and after the said thirty-first day of July next, be those respectively defined in the Schedule hereto,

SCHEDULE.

Ward Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Milton.

EAST WARD comprises all that area on the south-east of the Main South Road, bounded on the south-west by Shakespeare-street, on the north-west by the Main South Road, on the north-east by a District Road, and on the south-east by parts of Rural Sections 136 and 138, Block XVII, Tokomairiro District, to Shakespeare street aforesaid.

SOUTH WARD comprises all that area on the south-east of the Main South Road bounded on the north-west by the Main South Road, on the north-east by Shakespeare-street, on the south-east by part of Rural Section 138, Block XVII, Tokomairiro District to the river bank, and on the south-west by the river bank to the Main South Road.

WEST WARD comprises all that area, being the portion of the Town of Milton hereinbefore described, not being comprised in the East Ward and South Ward respectively.

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

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
GEO. DUNCAN,
Provincial Secretary.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF ALEXANDRA.

Appointment of Alexander Jack to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the Incorporated Town of Alexandra.

WHEREAS the Town of Alexandra was, by Proclamation dated the twentieth day of May, and published in the Otago Government Gazette, No. 482, incorporated by the name of the “Corporation of the Town of Alexandra,” 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 11th 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 Alexander Jack, of Alexandra, has been represented to me to be a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said Incorporated Town of Alexandra;—