Municipal Proclamation




OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority.

Vol. XVII. Dunedin: Wednesday, Jan. 8, 1873. No. 829.

PROCLAMATION

Of the Municipality of Naseby.

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

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago made and passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled “An Ordinance to Amend The Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865” it is amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of the Province of Otago with the advice of his Executive Council and he was thereby authorised and required on the petition of not less than fifty persons comprising a majority of the householders resident in any Township within the Province by Proclamation to extend the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865” to such Township by such name or incorporation as he should deem fit with such modification as to the names and numbers of the Members of such proposed Corporation and the officebearers thereof, 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 the 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 Naseby in the said Province of Otago has been presented to me James Macandrew, 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 in 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 Naseby and shall be applicable to and with the Municipality hereby created:

And I do with the 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 do hereby with the advice of my said Executive Council declare that the said Municipality hereby created shall be divided into three Wards to be known respectively as East Ward, West Ward and South Ward and that the boundaries of the said Wards shall be those respectively defined in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

First Schedule.

The sections of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865” containing the Provisions of the said Ordinance are extended to, and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Naseby that is to say sections numbered 6 to 11 both inclusive, sections numbered 27 to 97 both inclusive, sections numbered 99 to 115 both inclusive sections numbered 116 and 122 respectively.

Second Schedule.

Sections of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865” applicable to the Incorporated Town of Naseby with respective modifications set opposite the number of the sections—

No. of Sections Modifications
Section Five The style shall be “The Corporation of the Town of Naseby” instead of “The Corporation of the City of Dunedin.”
Section Twelve Instead of each of the said four several Wards of the City of Dunedin, the following modified words of the said three several Wards of the Incorporated Town of Naseby.
Section Twenty-eight Instead of the words “City of Dunedin” in this section the words “The Incorporated Town of Naseby.”
Section Ninety-eight Instead of the words “one hundred thousand pounds” the words “ten thousand pounds.”

Third Schedule.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Naseby delineated on the Record Maps of the said Town deposited in the Survey Office Dunedin in the said Province:

All that area in the Province of Otago containing an admeasurement one hundred and twelve (112) acres more or less situate in Block VIII, Manuherikia Survey District and bounded towards the north-north-west by Crown lands one thousand seven hundred.



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🏘️ Proclamation of the Municipality of Naseby

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
8 January 1873
Proclamation, Municipality, Naseby, Otago, Municipal Corporations Ordinance
  • James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago