PROCLAMATION.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 350, 9 December 1848, Page 3

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Edward John Eyre, Esquire, Lieutenant- Governor of the Province of New Munster, in, the Islands of New Zealand. \\7"HEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by , _ the Lieutenant-Governor" of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the LegislativejCouneil, Sess. 8, No. 9, intituled "An Ordinance for Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the- colony of New Zealand," it is enacted that for the purposes of the said Ordinance " it shall be lawful for the Governor (or Lieutenant-Go-vernor) by Proclamation to be for that purpose issued, to divide the colony of New Zealand into such and so manyr districts as he shall think fit, and every such district shall be called by a distinct name, and. shall be a Deputy Registrar's district: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Go,vernor to revoke such Proclamation, and to issue from time to time a new Proclamation, dividing the colony anew, into such and so. many districts as he shall think fit :" And whereas, by a Proclamation dated the15th May, 1848, the Province of New Munster was divided into certain disti icts X to be the Deputy Registrar's districts thereof : Now therefore I, the Lieutenant-Gover-nor, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested by the said in part recited Ordinance, do hereby revoke so much of thesaid Proclamation as relates to the Boundaries of the district of Otakou, in the said, Province of New Munster, and I hereby appoint and declare that the, said district of Otakou shall be divided into two districts — the names and boundaries- of which shall,, for the present, be as follows:-: — -* -

. • District oil Otakou. All that part of the Middle Island lying 1 between the district of Akaroa and a direct line drawn across the island from Doubtful Harbour, to the point where the Southern boundary of the settlement, of Otako.a strikes the Eastern Coast of the Island, shall' be called the district of Qtajkou, and shall be

t£e district 3 *^ thVDepu'ty-Registrar' thereof for alj. intents and purposes. ' ' ' '°DISTRICT : ,OF FoVEAUX StRAITS*. ',» ' , Xll that part of the of New' Munster not included in any of the districts hitherto proclaimed (comprising Stewarts Island, or New Leinster, the islands in ! Foveaux Straits, ,and all other islands adjacent t6 that part of the l&ddle ilslan'd ' ihcludcd within this district) shall be' called the' dis± tfict of Fo veaux Straits, and shall *be''fH6' district of the Deputy-Registrar thereof for all intents and purposes. Given under my hand, at Government House, Wellington, • in the' Province of New Mun- • ' ster, in' the said Islands "of New Zealand,, this twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of Our , Lord one thpusand eight hundred • andfortyeight. , E, Etrb. By His Excellency's Command,- > Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary. , „ God Save the Queen ! ;