MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 8, 29 December 1869, Page 5

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

ELECTION FOR BRIDG-E WARD. In accordance with the notification which appeared in our last issue, signed hy the Mayor, f ( the Councillor appointed to receive nominations j \of candidates for the representation of Bridge (Ward attended at the Council Chamber at noon onFriday, the 24th instant. O’rtly three persons } wire present, viz., Councillor Badger (Presiding | Officer), Councillor Burros, and the Town Clerk, j-S'S After waiting until after the appointed hour, f / ; the Presiding Officer stated that as no nomination had been received, ho would bn compelled 1 to carry out the provisions of the 25th Clause of I ’ the “ Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, L 1303," and receive a nomination which had been B made in accordance with that clause. He then B read the nomination of Mr James Dawkins, the p, ", hoposer being Mr W. Smitham, and the seI <f'/ conder Mr James Gossar,’ arid thereafter declared / Mr Dawkins duly elected to the officer of Conn-

idllor (or |lri>l(i« Ward, in lliw fii'itn »t I 'illo"lll" r K, ’11,,. «itivimi rcfurrml |.t nun M Ml"** I • " should it'* niimtwiNi <*f MiidhlAt** l„r (ha ~ til Mayor, • 'miMfilliir, it AmlHof, »f i'll her irf tIIHH, ff,h** Jiln«(* (of WHlltlif mHeUt 111 i,l mi/ ciM/mi In 1..* n-imitmii-1 (<* within Um tlnin llti'il fur public iiMmiii.aliiitrt, iirid «((•(■♦ MtM Hu itnll(ii'il by tin' MhJit. if mil'lli I"' Hwfnl Inr tim cKUmi* t" nlfi'f Huy I**m*M, whn dll ill It llimiillrtti'il Mi-fni.. without liH mummf, iiml the idiictloii shall In ill *if In * f f< sm'iiN l>H ih provided in ll'ii llriliiliiiiflH, mi l he held jt '» IIM1)..• I lliif IHceedilljJ n ' l " r ** It id (timber dtmutorl in Urn f»f«tli)ftnro that tlm declaration nf acceptance <d utflcn hy IKtrmiii elected under (Midi cifciiiiHtnMces shall l,n made within llvn days after nothin nf his *’•*•«• tiiiii i (ailing which, tlm Htiludiihi nl I'eimltlcs provide* (h,»t "iivery person (imt tim-mptm.l tiy thi* (Irdiiiance) elected to tlm nlHco nf (Jumiclllnr or Amlil'ir not making mill Hiilmerihiug such declaration within tlm tiiim aforesaid, shall pay a (iim of ,C 20.” Tlm Town (lurk wna directed to communicate Ht once with Mr Dawkins, informing him of his election ; mnl thin wmi accordingly do no. Tlm proceedings thuu terminated.