MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF PALMERSTON.

Appointment of Mr John Kean to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the incorporated Town of Palmerston.

WHEREAS the Town of Palmerston was, by Proclamation dated the seventeenth day of Oct., current, and published in the Otago Government Gazette, No. 764, incorporated by the name of the “Corporation of the Town of Palmerston,” 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 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 Mr John Kean, of Palmerston, has been represented to me to be a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated town of Palmerston: Now therefore I, William Alexander Tolmie, Deputy-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 Mr JOHN KEAN to be the person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated town of Palmerston.

As witness my hand this seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

W. A. TOLMIE,
Deputy-Superintendent.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

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

THIRD SCHEDULE.

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

All that area in the Province of Otago containing by admeasurement nine hundred (900) acres, more or less, situate in the Moeraki Survey District; bounded on the north by Block X, Moeraki Survey District; on the east by Block X, Moeraki Survey District; on the south by Block II, Hawksbury Survey District; and towards the west by Block X, Moeraki Survey District.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

North Ward

Comprises all that area in the Town of Palmerston bounded towards the north by Block X Moeraki District, towards the east by Block X Moeraki District, towards the south by a line along the centre of Copinsha street, and towards the west by a line along the centre of Tiverton street.

East Ward

Comprises all that area bounded on the north by North Ward, on the east by Block X Moeraki District, on the south by Block II Hawksbury District, on the north-west by a line along the centre of Ronaldsay street from the south boundary to Tiverton street, and on the west by a line along the centre of Tiverton street.

West Ward

Comprises the remainder of the township of Palmerston before described.

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

(L.S.)
W. A. TOLMIE,
Deputy-Superintendent.

WARRANT

Appointing an Officer for the revision of the Citizens’ List and for other purposes in the Incorporated Town of Palmerston, in the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the Town of Palmerston has been incorporated under the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865”: And whereas by the 113th Section of the said Ordinance, it is 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 Lists, 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 Palmerston: Now therefore I, W. A. Tolmie, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested.