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noon, at Jackson’s School-house, Jackson’s-street, in
the said Incorporated Town of East Invercargill, have
been appointed as the day, hour, and place for the
nomination of candidates for election to the office of
Mayor of the said Incorporated Town of East Inver-
cargill at the ensuing election, and I do hereby give
notice that I shall attend at the said place, and at the
day and time hereinafter mentioned, and shall then
cause to be publicly opened and read all such nomina-
tions of candidates for election to the office of Mayor
to the said incorporated town, as shall have been duly
lodged with Mr. Thomas Jarman,
the person appointed by his Honor the Deputy-Super-
intendent to act as Town Clerk at such election at his
office, before noon of the said twenty-fifth day of
September, 1876.

Dated at East Invercargill, this 19th day of Septem-
ber, 1876.

JOSEPH STOCK.

WARRANT

Appointing Mr. Thomas Jarman to act as Town Clerk
at First Elections of Mayor, Councillors, and Audi-
tors for the Incorporated Town of East Invercargill.

WHEREAS the Town of East Invercargill has
been incorporated under the provisions of the
“Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865.”
And whereas by the 113th section of the said Ordi-
nance it is, amongst other things, enacted that where
no special provision is made for the conduct of the
first election under the said Ordinance, it should be
lawful for the Superintendent, by warrant under his
hand, to appoint some person to perform any of the
acts in the said Ordinance required to be done by the
Town Clerk before such officer can be appointed under
the provisions of the said Ordinance: Now therefore I,
George Turnbull, Deputy-Superintendent of the Pro-
vince 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

Mr. Thomas Jarman,

to perform, at the first elections of Mayor, Councillors,
and Auditors for the said incorporated town, under the
said Ordinance, all acts in and by the said Ordinance
required to be done by the Town Clerk of the Incor-
porated Town of East Invercargill, at such first elec-
tions, under the provisions of the said Ordinance.

As witness my hand, this 19th day of September,
1876.

GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent.

WARRANT

Appointing certain persons to preside at the Polling in
the various Wards at the Election of Mayor, Coun-
cillors, and Auditors for the Incorporated Town of
East Invercargill.

WHEREAS the Town of East Invercargill has
been incorporated under the provisions of the
“Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865.”
And whereas by the 13th section of the said Ordi-
nance 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, Coun-
cillors, and Town Clerk before such officers can be
elected under the provisions of the said Ordinance:
Now therefore I, George Turnbull, Deputy-Superin-
tendent 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 East
Invercargill set opposite their names) the polling at the
elections under the said Ordinance of Mayor, Council-
lors, 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 such first
elections, all such acts as by the said Ordinance are
required to be done by a Councillor or other person
appointed to preside at the polling at elections of
Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors.

Persons Appointed.
Wards.
Mr. Jas. E. Hannah ... East Ward.
Mr. Hugh Graham ... West Ward.

As witness my hand, this 19th day of September,
1876.

GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent.

NOTICE.

INCORPORATED TOWN OF EAST INVERCARGILL.

WHEREAS by the 28th section of the “Otago
Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,”
it is provided that no person elected to be Mayor,
Councillor, or Auditor under the said Ordinance shall
be capable of acting as such until he shall first, in the
presence of any two Councillors, have made and sub-
scribed the declaration therein set forth: Provided
that at the first elections under the said Ordinance,
whether for the City of Dunedin or for any other in-
corporated town or place, such declaration shall be
made and subscribed before a person to be appointed
for that purpose by the Superintendent of Otago:

And whereas it is necessary that a person should be
appointed before whom such declaration shall be made
and subscribed by the persons elected as Mayor,
Councillors, and Auditors respectively, for the Incor-
porated Town of East Invercargill, at the first elections
for the said town under the said Ordinance:

Now therefore, I, George Turnbull, Deputy-Super-
intendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby, in
pursuance of the power in this behalf vested in me by
the said Ordinance, appoint

Joseph Stock, of East Invercargill, Esquire,

as and to be the person before whom the persons
elected as Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors respec-
tively, at the first elections under the said Ordinance,
for the said Incorporated Town of East Invercargill,
shall make and subscribe the declaration specified in
the said twenty-eighth section of the said Ordinance.

Given under my hand, and issued under the
public seal of the Province of Otago afore-
said, at Dunedin, this nineteenth day of
September, 1876.

(L.S.) GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent of Otago.

PROCLAMATION

Appointing a day for the First Election of a Citizen to
be Mayor of the Incorporated Town of North Inver-
cargill.

By His Honor George Turnbull, Esquire, Deputy
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by the “Otago Municipal Corpora-
tions 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