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OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).

Vol. XX. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1876. No. 1044.

PROCLAMATION

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

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 Gladstone 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 or Gladstone:

Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the said Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have appointed and do hereby appoint Tuesday, the 17th day of October, 1876, as and to be the day for the first election of a citizen to be Mayor of the Municipality of Gladstone.

Given under my hand, and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this 4th day of October, 1876.

(L.S.)
J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

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 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 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 should 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, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the said “Otago Municipal Corporation Ordinance, 1865,” and of all other powers in any wise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby nominate and appoint

MR. JAMES JAMIESON

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 Gladstone, in the Province of Otago.

As witness my hand, this 4th day of October, 1876.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent.

NOTICE

Of day and place of Nomination of Candidates for the office of Mayor of the Incorporated Town of Gladstone.

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, James Jamieson, 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 Gladstone 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 Gladstone, at the election of Mayor:

Now therefore I, the said James Jamieson, notify that Tuesday, the seventeenth day of October, 1876, at noon, at the School-house, Gladstone, in the said Incorporated Town of Gladstone, 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 Gladstone, at the ensuing election; and 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. Henry McLean, the person appointed by His Honor the Superintendent to act as Town Clerk at such election, at his office, before noon, of the said seventeenth day of October, 1876.

Dated this 4th day of October, 1876.

JAMES JAMIESON.