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cillors, Town Clerk, Collector, or other Officers, before such officers could be appointed or elected under the provision 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 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 South Dunedin: 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," and of all other powers in any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint

MR JAMES WRIGHT,

to perform the acts required to be done by the Council in the Revision of the Citizens' List for the Town of South Dunedin and hearing and determining the claims the Citizens thereof to be inserted in such List, and the objections of such Citizens to any other Citizen having his name retained thereon.

As witness my hand this seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

PROCLAMATION.

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

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

WHEREAS BY the "Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865, Amendment Ordinance, 1870," 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 the Ordinance intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865," by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, to appoint a day for the first election of a citizen to be Mayor of such Municipality: And whereas the town of St. Kilda 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 St. Kilda:

Now, therefore, I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, do hereby claim and declare that I have appointed, and do hereby appoint, Wednesday, the fifteenth day of December, 1875, as to be the day for the first election of a citizen to be Mayor of the municipality of St. Kilda.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this 7th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

(L.S.)

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

WARRANT.

Appointing certain persons to preside at the Polling in the Wards and Auditors for the Election of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors for the Incorporated Town of St. Kilda.

WHEREAS THE Town of St. Kilda 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, provided, that where no special provision is made for the conduct of the first elections under the said Ordinance, it should be lawful for the said Superintendent, by warrant under his hand, to appoint such and so many persons as may be necessary to perform any of the acts in the said Ordinance required to be done by the Mayor, Councillors, and Town Clerk, before such officers can be elected under the provisions of the said Ordinance: 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," and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby appoint the persons hereinafter mentioned to be the persons before whom shall be held (within the respective wards of the incorporated Town of St. Kilda, set opposite their names) the polling at the election under the said Ordinance of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors for the said incorporated town, at the first elections held under the said Ordinance for the said incorporated town, and to do within the said respective wards set opposite their names, at the first elections, all such acts as by the said Ordinance are required to be done by a Councillor or other person appointed to the polling at elections of Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors.

As witness my hand, this seventh day of December, 1875.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

NOTICE.

Of day and place of Nomination of Candidates for the Office of Mayor of the incorporated Town of St. Kilda.

WHEREAS, James Macandrew, Esquire, 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, Peter Paxton, 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 St. Kilda, under the said Ordinance; and to attend on the day of the 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 St. Kilda, at the election of Mayor: Now, therefore, I, the said Peter Paxton, notify that Wednesday, the fifteenth day of December, 1875, at noon, at Mr. Roughton's House, Musselburgh, in the said incorporated town of St. Kilda, have been appointed as the day, hour, and place of the nomination of candidates for election to the office of Mayor of the said incorporated town of St. Kilda, at the ensuing election; I do hereby give notice that I shall attend at the said place and at the day and time hereinbefore mentioned, and shall then cause to be publicly opened and read, all such nominations of candidates for election to the office of Mayor to the said incorporated town, as shall be in due form, and shall have been lodged with Mr. Robert Mitchell, the person appointed by His Honor the Superintendent to act as Town Clerk at such election, at his office, before noon of the said fifteenth day of December, 1875.

Dated at St. Kilda, this seventh day of December, 1875.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

NOTICE.—Whereas it is intended to stop up these Roads and portions of Roads which are severally described in the Schedule hereunder written, and are delineated on the maps or plans mentioned and referred to in the "Roads Diversion Ordinance, 1875, Session XXXIV., copies of which maps or plans, so far as they relate to the particular