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NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1868. No. 527.

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

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-fourth Session of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, shall be held within the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, in the said Province, and shall commence upon Wednesday, the eighth day of April 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 twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

L.S.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

By His Honor’s command,

JULIUS VOGEL,
Provincial Secretary.

JAMES MACANDREW,
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Superintendent of
the Province of
Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the Eleventh day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

Present :

His Honor the Superintendent ;
Julius Vogel ;
George Duncan ;
Arthur John Burns ; and
John Hughes, Esquires,
Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS Thomas Dick, Esquire, then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in exercise of the Powers delegated to and vested in him in that behalf, did, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the said Province, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, constitute and appoint all the territory therein described, comprising amongst other Lands the Lands hereinafter described, to be a Gold Field under the Provisions of the "Gold Fields Act, 1866" to be called "Otago Gold Fields:" And whereas by "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1867," it is enacted that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance it is provided that the Superintendent shall, in the administration of the government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and under the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations as he shall think fit, all or any of such powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the "Gold Fields Act, 1866," as under or by virtue of the one hundred and ninth section of the said Act may be delegated by the Governor in Council, and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the "Executive Council Ordinance, 1861," it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him by the "Gold Fields Act, 1866," and subject to its provisions, dele.