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the Clerk of the Provincial Council has been instructed by that body to draft the required Bill, it becomes unnecessary for me to take any step until the Bill has been passed by the Council and is presented to me.
To the measure proposed I have not personally any objections to offer, although I am sensible of grave objections to that portion of it by which the responsibility vested by the Constitution Act in the Superintendent becomes transferred to a majority of the Provincial Council, and is at the same time divided among three salaried officers. But as the elected guardian of the interests of the Province, I am naturally anxious that any change which it may be thought necessary to make should be made deliberately and with due caution—and in effecting so important a change as the one proposed in the Government of the Province, I require to be assured that it is desired by a majority of its inhabitants. To such an expression of opinion it is my duty to give effect, though I should not feel justified in co. ceding to the request of one tenth of the electors a change which must so largely affect the interests of the whole community.
A copy of the memorial will be transmitted with the measure for the consideration of His Excellency's Government; in the meantime it is open to the memorialists to obtain additional signatures to it, or further signatures to another copy.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient servant,
CHARLES BROWN.
To the
Gentlemen signing the Memorial.
NOTICE.
Superintendent's Office,
November 20th, 1856.
THE PASTURAGE of the unenclosed lands lying waste and uncultivated within the undermentioned Districts in the Town of New Plymouth and Town Belt, will be put up for sale on WEDNESDAY the 24th day of December next, at Noon, at the Office of the Provincial Treasurer, in Courtenay Street, for the term of One Year, commencing on the 1st of January, 1857. The sale is pursuant to the provisions of the Ordinance of the Province, Session II, No. 2; and to the subjoined conditions.
PARTICULARS:
District No. 1.—North of the Mangatuku, and West of Queen Street.
District No. 2.—South of the Mangatuku and West of Robe Street and Queen Street.
District No. 3.—North of Devon Street and bounded East by Hobson Street and West by Liardet Street.
District No. 4.—South of Courtenay Street and bounded East by River Henui and West by Carrington Road.
CONDITIONS.
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Each District shall be put up at the sum fixed by the Auctioneer; and if any dispute shall arise as to the last or highest bidder for any District, the same shall be put up again at a former bidding.
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No person shall at any bidding advance less than one pound—or retract his bidding.
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The purchase money will be payable as follows:—Ten per cent at the auction, and the remainder by equal instalments of ten per cent, payable on the 1st of January, 1857, and on the first of each subsequent month until the full amount is paid.
CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.
Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1856, No 14
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Memorial regarding Provincial Council reform and reply
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government19 November 1856
Memorial, Electors, Provincial Council, Executive Council, Reform
- Charles Brown, Superintendent responding to memorial
- Charles Brown, Superintendent
🗺️ Sale of pasturage rights on unenclosed lands
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey20 November 1856
Pasturage, Unenclosed lands, New Plymouth, Auction, Provincial Treasurer
- Charles Brown, Superintendent