of, and any other municipal matters and regulations as should seem to such Superintendent and his Executive Council suitable for the area and population of such Municipality; and in accordance with such Petition, or otherwise, should define the boundaries of the Municipality so created, and declare the number of Wards into which such Municipality might be divided, and define the boundaries of such Wards respectively, and declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance should be applicable to and within the limits of such Municipality: and whereas a Petition of persons, comprising a majority of the householders resident in the Township of Invercargill, in the said Province of Otago, has been presented to me, James Macandrew, as Superintendent of the said Province, praying that the provisions of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865" may be extended to the said Township: Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice 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 day of the date hereof, the provisions of the said "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," specified in the first Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said Township of Invercargill, by and under the name of the Corporation of the Town of Invercargill, and shall be applicable to and within the Municipality hereby created. And I do, with the like advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that such of the said provisions as are contained in the sections of the said last mentioned Ordinance, specified in the first column of the second Schedule hereto, shall extend to the said Township, and be applicable to the Municipality hereby created, with and subject to the respective modifications contained herein, and in the second column of the said second Schedule hereto. And I hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the Municipality hereby created shall be those specified in the third Schedule hereto. And I hereby, with the advice of my said Executive Council, declare that the said Municipality hereby created shall consist of one Ward with eight Councillors, and that the boundaries of the said Ward shall be those defined in the third Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," containing the provisions of the said Ordinance, extended to and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Invercargill, that is to say, Sections numbered 6 to 11, both inclusive; Sections numbered 13 to 27, both inclusive; Sections numbered 29 to 97, both inclusive; Sections numbered 99 to 113, both inclusive, and Sections numbered 116 and 122 respectively.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Sections of the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," applicable to the Incorporated Town of Invercargill, with respective modifications set opposite the numbers of the Sections.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Invercargill, as delineated on the Record Maps of the said Town, deposited in the Survey Office in Dunedin, in the said Province.

Comprise all that area in the Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement eight hundred (800) acres, more or less, being the Town of Invercargill: bounded towards the north by Block I, Invercargill Survey District, 8550 links; towards the east by Block I aforesaid, 11300 links; towards the south by Block III, Invercargill Survey District, 5200 links; and towards the west by Invercargill Harbor, 14000 links, be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

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

(L.S.) J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.
By His Honor's command,
D. REID, Provincial Secretary.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF
INVERCARGILL

Appointment of Henry Ellis Osborne to prepare the Citizens' Roll for the Incorporated Town of Invercargill.

WHEREAS the Town of Invercargill was, by Proclamation dated the twenty-eighth day of June current, and published in the Otago Government Gazette, No. 741, incorporated by the name of the "Corporation of the Town of Invercargill," 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 117th 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 erected thereunder, for which any such Citizens' Roll should be prepared: And whereas Henry Ellis Osborne, of Invercargill, has been represented to me to be a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens' Roll for the said incorporated Town of Invercargill: Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," do nominate and appoint the said

HENRY ELLIS OSBORNE,