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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 640, 20 September 1851, Page 4

ft is intersected by the boundarv h” Whanganui block, and procee "?'“'Mid line to highwater mark on the Southwestern boundary then H, and proceeds in a South EastA®** along the shore at hioh « 7 v Pectin J Wilaon’s Bluff as hei Given under tny hand, Md - under the public seal „( vmce of New Munster ; inlands of New Zealand at cement House, at Wellim* I’- 1 ’- seventeenth <U yo f Sep &M /the year of our Lo rd eight hundred and fifty! O ne r* j «G* Gmxy 1 Governor and Commanded By His Excellency’s command I Alfred Domett, I Colonial J God Save the Queinj 1 Colonial Wellington, 18th September 1 TTIS EXCELLENCY THE (Z n NOR has been pleased to St publication of the following correspoZ for general information. r By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secriaq, Resident Magistrate’s Court Wellington, 13th September, Sir. —The List of Electors, for 1851-52. for Commissioners for the Town of wi? ton, having been this day revised by the Bench of Magistrates, I have the honor to I request instructions previous to the pnbfica. tion of notice by the Resident Magistrate for the Electors to assemble for the electing of Commissioners as to the mode ofproceeL in such election. The Ordinance does not define the manner in which the votes are to be taken ; how the list is to be prepared; i or who is to be the Returning Officer. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, (Signed) Henry St. Hili, R. M. The Honorable

The Colonial Secretary, Wellington. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 17th September, 1851, Sir, —In reply to your letter of the 13i instant, requesting instructions, with resped to the election of Road Commissioners fe the Town of Wellington, as to the mam in which the votes are to be taken, how the list is to be prepared, and who is to be the Returning Officer; lam directed to infers you that his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has caused the opinion of the Attorney General to be taken on the following points:— Ist. Whether the law is defective into particulars referred to by the Resitel Magistrate. 2nd. If such is the case, who has thl the power under the Ordinance, or any other law, to determine: — FTW ....... • »♦,.«. — oMlt me muuuer in which me vuivo taken: [ The mode in which the lists are to«, prepared, and who is to be the turning Officer: i The opinion of the Attomey-Gw^ ll to the effect that, " the Ordinance h fective in not enacting what manner the election of the Commissioners shall be hdAw.l the defect cannot be cured by any aut not equipollent with that which made, J Ordinance, viz., a Legislative Council I am further to request enough to communicate this opinion t 0 members of the Bench of Magistrate 5 signed the requisition for the Procla® a of the Ordinance in question. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient Ser van> (Signed) An,.nn The Resident Magistrate, Wellington.