Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 2

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✨ Public Works Ordinance

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shall be under the management of a Board of Commissioners elected by General Meetings of the Occupiers or Owners of Land within the district, constituted in manner hereinafter provided.

As respects the Rural districts, every Occupier of Lands within any such district, and also every Owner of unoccupied lands within any such district, such Occupier or Owner being a Male and having attained the age of Twenty-one years, shall be qualified to take a part in the proceedings at the General Meetings for the district, and to vote thereat according to the following scale, (that is to say) if occupying or owning lands within the district not exceeding in aggregate extent One hundred acres, such occupier or owner shall be entitled to one vote, and if occupying or owning lands within the district exceeding in aggregate extent One hundred acres, such occupier or owner shall be entitled to two votes. Persons holding land in common shall in respect thereof be entitled to votes in like manner as if the land so held were divided amongst them, equally or un-equally according to their title, and each person were in sole occupation of his divided part.
As respects the Town district, every person whose name shall appear on the Electoral Roll for the time being in force, as entitled to vote in the election of Members of the Provincial Council for the Town of New Plymouth, shall be qualified to vote and take a part in the proceedings at the General Meetings for the said district.
A General Meeting of the Electors for each district shall be convened in the month of February in the year 1855, and in the month of May in every succeeding year, on such day and at such place, as for the respective districts shall be appointed by the Superintendent by Notice published in the Government Gazette of the Province.
No General Meeting shall be competent to the transaction of business unless Ten Electors are present. Provided that if there shall not be a Quorum within one hour of the appointed time, a majority of the Electors present shall have power to ad-journ the Meeting to any time to be appointed for that purpose not being more than twenty-one days after the day originally fixed. Provided also that Notice of such adjournment shall be forthwith given by two Notices in writing at the least signed by not less than three electors and posted in conspicuous places within the district.
Before proceeding to business at a General Meeting a Chairman shall be elected by the majority of the votes of the Electors present.
Every question at a General Meeting shall be determined by the majority of the votes of the Electors present and voting including the Chairman, who in addition to his original vote or votes shall have a casting vote in all cases where the votes shall be equal.
Every person claiming to vote at a General Meeting for any Rural district shall be provisionally admitted to do so, according to his claim, but the validity of any resolution, or other proceeding which may be carried or adopted in consequence of the reception of any vote or votes claimed without due qualification, shall, on that ground, be subject to be contested in manner hereinafter provided.
Every person who shall give any vote or votes at a General Meeting without being duly qualified in manner hereinbefore provided shall forfeit and pay by way of penalty the sum of Five Pounds, which shall be recoverable and applicable in like manner as rates levied in respect of lands within the district.
It shall be competent to a General Meeting to determine, in the first place, whether any rate shall be levied for the ensuing year, and in the second place, if the proposition of a Rate be carried, what shall be the amount of such rate. Within the Rural districts an uniform sum per acre on all lands within the District shall in every case be imposed. Within the Town District an uniform sum shall be imposed on every undivided Town Section, and upon every separate Tenement into which a Town Section may for the time being be divided—including as Town Sections the sub-divi-

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🏗️ An Ordinance to provide for the maintenance of public works within the Province of New Plymouth (continued from previous page)

Domain🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
KeywordsPublic Works, Ordinance, New Plymouth, Roads, Rates, Commissioners, Legislation, Electoral Roll, Voting, Meetings

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