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Hokitika Municipal Ordinance 1866

4. The Hokitika Municipal Ordinance 1866.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Municipal Electoral Officers Hokitika declared to have been duly elected.

2. Title.

Whereas in pursuance of the powers vested in him by Section 3 of “The Municipal Council Ordinance” Session XIV. No. 2 the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury did upon the Petition of one hundred householders resident within the town of Hokitika praying that the said town might be declared a Municipal District under the said Ordinance by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Province by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette of the said Province of Canterbury on the Thirtieth day of

May One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six declare the town of Hokitika to be a Municipal District under the said recited Ordinance by the name of the Town of Hokitika Whereupon the householders of the said town of Hokitika and others entitled to vote nominated and elected certain persons to be Members of the Municipal Council for the said town of Hokitika And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of such elections which doubts it is expedient to remove.

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Municipal Electoral Officers Hokitika declared to have been duly elected. That the several persons who were declared by the Chairman and Assessors appointed to conduct the first election of Councillors for the said Town of Hokitika at the Warden’s Court in the said town in the month of October One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six to have been duly elected to serve as the Members of the said Municipal Council are hereby declared to have been duly elected according to law and shall and may during their respective terms of office have and exercise all the rights powers and privileges conferred upon Municipal Councils by the said recited Ordinance notwithstanding any error omission or irregularity in the mode of conducting such election or any proceedings

precedent thereto.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Hokitika Municipal

Ordinance 1866.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on the 27th

December 1866, and assented to by the Superintendent, WS Moorhouse, on the

29th December.


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