Page 6 Advertisements Column 1

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 1, Issue 52, 18 September 1858, Page 6

NEW PRO VI NCES ACT. "".-■■' No. 7. ' Assented to Aug. 21, 1858. ■jln act to provide for the estabLISHMENT OF NEW PROVINCES IN NEW ZEALAND. Preamble. "IXTHEREAS it is expedient to make ~ better provision for Local Self Government, attd for that purpose, to provide for the establishment of new Provinces,, in certain cases. Be it THEKEfpRE enacted hy the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same; as follows : — Establishment of New Provinces. 1. Whenever not less than three-fifths of the Registered Electors entitled to vote in the election of Members of the House of. Representatives, resident within any District whereof the area shall not be less than 500,000 acres, shall petition the Governor an Council to establish a new Province com.p.rising such District, the Governor in Council by order published in the "New Zealand Government Gazette" shall with all convenient speed establish such Province accordingly ; subject nevertheless to the fulfilment of the following conditions, ■that is to say, — 1. Such Petition shall be signed by at - least one hundred and fifty registered Electors, exclusive of persons of the Native Race, and shall contain a sufficient description of the District proposed to be comprised in the new Province. 2. There shall he at the date of the Order in Council establishing any Province under this Act a population bona fide resident within such district, within an area of not exceeding one million acres, of at least one thousand souls, exclusive of aboriginal Natives, and of Officers, non-commissioned Officers, and Privates of her Majesiy's Troops serving in the Colony. 8. There shall be at the date of the said Order in Council within the limits of such District, a Town which shall be constituted the Capital of the Province, and a Port or Ports from which the greater part in value of the exported produce of the District shall be shipped coastwise, or for exportation beyond seas, or into which the greater part of the imported commodities consumed within such District, shall be brought coastwise or imported from beyond seas. A. No point of the boundary of any such District shall be within 60 miles measured in a right line, of the Capital Town of any Province already or hereafter to be established in New Zealand, except the Province of New Plymouth, nor within 35 miles of the Town of New Plymouth : Provided always that this condition shall not .apply to any boundary line dividing territory drained by rivers falling into Blind Bay from adjacent territory to the eastward thereof. £. The area of any such District shall npt exceed three millions of acres. And eyery Province established under this Act, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be a Province established under the Constitution Act. 6, So such District shall comprise any part of more than one Province. Definition of limits of new Prqvinees. 11, Provided always tb.at the Governor in Council shall define the limits of every such new Province, by the order in Counpil establishing thp same, and in so doing, may ftt his discretion, include Territory not within the District described in the Petition, or exclude Territory comprised in such District, or may tjoth inejude land exclude Territory asf aforesaid : Provided, also that the limits of every new Province shall he go fixed as that if a description qf the Territpry therein comprised had- been substir ttited. in the Petition upon which such prder shajl be made in lieu of the description., of tftev District actually described in puch PetitiQn,- ajl the aforesaid conditions s the i presentation' pf such Pe- { tition, ;&ay6 jjeenfuJfiUed in respect ofsttchl, \- f^eas^^i:,\'^X-\. •.,;',.;•....;:: .',. ■'„• , '..-', . ;IIIi rEyery such! Order in: Council shall tfil^ifjeet at §uch time, not exceeding six