OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

Vol. XVIII. Dunedin: Wednesday, August 26, 1874. No. 923

PROCLAMATION

Appointing a day for the First Election of a Citizen to be Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Roxburgh.

By His Honor John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, it is amongst other things provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, at any time after any Municipality shall have been proclaimed under the provisions of this Ordinance instituted "An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865," to appoint a day for the first election of a citizen to be Mayor of such municipality: And whereas the town of Roxburgh has been proclaimed a municipality under the provisions of the said Ordinance, and it is expedient to appoint a day for the first election of a citizen to be Mayor of the said municipality of Roxburgh:

Now, therefore, I, John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Deputy-Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have appointed, and do hereby appoint, Wednesday, the ninth day of September, 1874, to be the day for the first election of a citizen to be Mayor of the municipality of Roxburgh.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this 18th day of August, 1874.

J. T. BOYD,
Deputy-Superintendent.

WARRANT

Appointing an Officer to preside at the First Elections to be held under the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865, for the Incorporated Town of Roxburgh, in the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS the Town of Roxburgh 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 where no special provision is made for the conduct of the first elections under the said Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by warrant under his hand, to appoint some fit and proper person to preside at each of such elections: Now, therefore, I, John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint

Mr. Albert Birch

to preside at the first elections of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors to be held under the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," for the Incorporated Town of Roxburgh, in the Province of Otago.

As witness my hand, this eighteenth day of August, 1874.

J. T. BOYD,
Deputy-Superintendent.

NOTICE

Of day and place of nomination of candidates for the office of Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Roxburgh.

WHEREAS John Theodore Thomas Boyd, Esquire, Deputy-Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in him by the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," has, by warrant under his hand, appointed me the undersigned, Albert Birch, to be the person to give public notice, as by law required, of the place, day, and hour for the nomination of candidates for election to the office of Mayor, at the first election of Mayor for the incorporated town of Roxburgh, under the said Ordinance; and to attend on the day of nomination of candidates for such office at such first election, and to preside, do and perform at such first election, all the acts by the said Ordinance required or directed to be done by the Mayor of the said incorporated town of Roxburgh, at the election of Mayor:

Now therefore I, the said Albert Birch, notify that Wednesday the second day of September, 1874, at noon, at the Assembly Rooms in the said incorporated town of Roxburgh, have been appointed as the day, hour, and place