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MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GLADSTONE.

Appointment of Mr Samuel Morton to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the incorporated Town of Gladstone.

WHEREAS the Town of Gladstone was, by Proclamation dated the 20th day of November, and published in the Otago Government Gazette, No. 995, incorporated by the name of the “Corporation of the Town of Gladstone” 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, 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 Samuel Morton, of Gladstone, has been represented to me to be a fit and proper person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated town of Gladstone: Now therefore I, George Turnbull, 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. SAMUEL MORTON

to be the person to prepare the Citizens’ Roll for the said incorporated town of Gladstone.

As witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

GEO. TURNBULL,
Deputy-Superintendent of Otago.

WARRANT

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

WHEREAS the Town of Gladstone has been Incorporated under the provisions of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865:” And whereas by the 117th 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 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 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 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 Gladstone; Now, therefore, I, George Turnbull, 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 any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint

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 consist of one Ward with four Councillors.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The sections of the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” containing the provisions of the said Ordinance, extended to and applicable within the Incorporated Town of Gladstone; that is to say, sections numbered 6 to 11, both inclusive; sections numbered 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26; sections numbered 29 to 97, both inclusive; sections numbered 99 to 113, both inclusive; and sections numbered 116 to 122 respectively; and also the sections in the various amending Ordinances substituted for sections 18, 27, and 78, repealed.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

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

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Boundaries of the Incorporated Town of Gladstone as delineated on the record maps of the said town, deposited in the Lands Registry Office, in Invercargill, in the said Province.

All that parcel of land in the said Province of Otago, containing by admeasurement 98 acres 1 rood 31 poles, more or less, being Section 25 of said Block I. on the said record map, and the adjacent roads, and comprising the private Township of Gladstone, bounded on the east by a public road, 100 links, and by Section 26 of said Block, 3360 links, on the south by Sections 23, 24, and 29 of aforesaid Block, 2930 links, and by the Main North Road, 100 links, on the west by Section 30 of aforesaid Block, 2200 links, and towards the north-west and north by the Waihopai River to the commencing point.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this 26th day of September, 1876.

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