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Proclamation.

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

I, WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by “The Local Boards Act 1873,” do hereby proclaim and appoint that a meeting of persons qualified to vote for “The Lower Hutt District,” under the said Act, shall be held at the Mechanics Institute, Lower Hutt, on Monday, the 21st day of September, 1874, at 12 o’clock noon, for the purpose of electing five persons to constitute the Board of Commissioners for the said District.

And further, I do hereby appoint Ebenezer Baker, the Returning Officer, at such meeting for the election of Commissioners aforesaid.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this 2nd day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Countersigned, Superintendent.
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Proclamation

By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esq., C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS by clause 84 of the Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council, shortly intituled “The Highways Act, 1874,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to proclaim the following clause to be in force in any Highway District on receiving an application from the Board of Wardens of a Highway District, viz. :

“Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of any Highway Board that the weight carried on vehicles having the breadth of their wheels of less than five inches requires to be restricted, the Board may, by notice posted in the district, or by advertisement inserted at least twice in some newspaper circulating in the district, give notice that all such vehicles will be subject to a penalty of not less than one shilling per hundred weight, or fractional part of a hundred weight so carried above the weight of one ton five hundred weight on two wheels, or two tons ten hundred weight on four wheels, and that such penalty shall be recoverable at the suit of the collector or other agent appointed for that purpose by the Board: Provided for the carrying into operation of this clause the Board shall be empowered to take such steps as to them shall appear necessary for ascertaining the weight of any load, and no liability or damage shall accrue for any necessary delay in ascertaining the said weight.”

And whereas application has been made to me on behalf of the Wellington Highway Board, that the said clause may be proclaimed in force in the Wellington Highway District.

Now therefore, I, William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said clause as above recited, shall be and be deemed to be in force within the boundaries of the said Wellington Highway District on and after Monday, the seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Countersigned—
HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by THOMAS M’KENZIE, Printer for the time being to such Government.