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the assessment
may be lodged at the Council Chambers
(where blank forms may be had), on or before the 6th
day of January, 1869; and a copy of each notice of
appeal
must be delivered, by the appellant, to the Clerk
of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, six clear
days before the day of hearing.

J. M. MASSY,
Town Clerk.

16th December, 1868.
8s.

IMPOUNDED on the ninth day of December, 1868,
by Police, a bay mare and foal, black points’
branded R on near shoulder; and a grey gelding,
branded like BD on near shoulder, and a bay mare
branded B on near shoulder, black points; also, a bay
gelding, white star in the forehead, branded E on the off
shoulder, black points; all saddle horses, owner not
known; for trespassing on town of Port Chalmers; and
in default of being released, the above cattle will be
sold at the public Pound at Port Chalmers, on Friday,
the 15th day of January, 1869, at 12 o’clock noon.

GEORGE STUMBLES,
Poundkeeper of the Port Chalmers Pound.

From the New Zealand Gazette, November 19, 1868, No. 65

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by “The Regulation of Elections Act 1858,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by warrant under his hand, from time to time to appoint polling places for each Electoral District, within or without the limits thereof, and to appoint any one of such places to be the principal polling place for the district, and all or any of such polling places at any time to abolish, and to appoint other polling places in lieu thereof: And whereas by warrant under the hand of the Governor, the Court House, Clyde, was appointed principal polling place for the District of Gold Fields, for the Election of Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago: And whereas it is expedient to abolish the same:

Now, know ye that I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the said Colony, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said Act, do hereby abolish the above-named principal polling place for the District of Gold Fields, for the election of Superintendent and Members of the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, and do appoint in lieu thereof

The Court House, Naseby.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, this nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

(From the New Zealand Gazette, Nov. 23, 1868, No. 65.)

G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of November 1868.

Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the tenth section of “The Marine Act 1857,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time make bye-laws and regulations for regulating the management of piers,

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jetties, wharves, and docks, and the general regulation of the traffic on the same, and for regulating all other matters relating to the protection of life and property of passengers and others, and by such bye-laws or regulations to impose any penalty, not exceeding fifty pounds, for the breach, or neglect, or disobedience of the same, or any of them:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby make the following regulations and bye-laws for the purposes aforesaid.

REGULATIONS AND BYE-LAWS.

1. The Master, or if there be no Master the person in charge of every vessel, whether steamer or sailing vessel, being or lying alongside of any pier, jetty, or wharf in the Colony, and which vessel shall have passengers on board, or be engaged in carrying passengers, or in which, if a steamer, passengers may by law be carried, shall keep for the use of passengers or persons coming from or going on board such vessel a proper and secure gangway, with double side-rails, or stanchions with ropes rove taut through the same, the top rail or rope being not less than three feet three inches high, and shall cause such gangway to be securely fixed and to extend from one portion of the vessel’s deck or side-rail to the pier, jetty, or wharf, with a good solid bearing at each end, and to be so kept fixed so long as such vessel shall be alongside such wharf, pier, or jetty.

2. In the event of the outer end of any such gangway resting on the vessel’s side-rail, the Master, or if there be no Master the person in charge of any such vessel, shall keep substantial steps fixed to lead from the end of the gangway to the vessel’s deck.

3. In cases in which by the preceding regulations it is required that a vessel shall have a gangway fixed, the Master, or if there be no Master the person in charge of such vessel, shall keep a proper bright light fixed over such gangway from sunset to sunrise in such a manner as to light the whole length of it properly, and shall keep such light burning bright and clear from sunset till sunrise, so long as the vessel remains alongside any pier, wharf, or jetty.

4. Any Master, or the person in charge of any vessel when there is no Master thereof, who shall be convicted of any breach, neglect, or disobedience of any of the foregoing regulations or bye-laws, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN,
Governor.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

BY virtue of the power vested in me in this behalf by “The Marine Act 1857,” I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor of New Zealand, do hereby cancel and annul all designations of the limits of Ports in this Colony of New Zealand heretofore made, for the purpose of the said Act, or of any Act repealed thereby, and do hereby order that for the purposes of “The Marine Act 1857,” the limits of the several Ports of the Colony mentioned in the second column of the Schedule hereto shall be such as are defined and set opposite thereto respectively in the third column of the said Schedule.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor.