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that purpose by the Principal Returning Officer of the Province ; whereof seven days' previous notice shall be given in some newspaper published within the Province, or by keeping such notice posted for not less than seven days in some conspicuous place within the Province, and, after electing their Speaker (which election shall be at once valid and effectual), shall, by an absolute majority, elect some person qualified to vote in the election of a member of the said Council to be Superintendent of the Province : Provided that in the event of the election of a Member of the Provincial Council to the office of Superintendent, the seat in the said Council of the person so elected shall be deemed vacant : Provided also, that whenever the office of Superintendent shall become vacant in any of the cases provided for by the Constitution Act, a new election shall in like manner take place on a day to be fixed by the Speaker, and to be notified as aforesaid, not being less than ten days, nor more than fifteen days, after the vacancy shall have been notified by the Governor to the Speaker. Superintendents eligible for seats in Provincial Council. XI. The Superintendent of any Province established under this Act shall be capable of being elected and sitting as a Member of the Provincial Council and as the Speaker thereof, and accordingly, if a Member of any such Council shall be elected Superintendent, and his seat in the Council shall be thereby vacated, he shall nevertheless be eligible for re-election. Superintendent not to assent to Bills on behalf of Governor. XII. It shall not be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province established under this Act to assent on behalf of the Governor to any Bill passed by the Provincial Council of such Province but only to declare, according to his discretion, and subject to such instructions as may from time to time be given him by the Governor either that he withholds the assent of the Governor or that he reserves such Bill for the signification of the Governor's pleasure thereon. Governor may return Bills with amendments. XIII. It shall be lawful for the Governor before declaring his pleasure in regard to any such Bill to make such amendments therein as he may think needful or expedient, and to return such Bill with amendments to the Superintendent, whose duty it shall be to transmit the Bill and amendments to the Provincial Council, aud the consideration of such amendments by such Council shall take place in such convenient manner as the Council shall think fit ; and on the Bill being again presented to the Governor, either amended or not, it shall be lawful for the Governor, at any time within 3 months after he shall have received the same, to signify his pleasure thereon. Provincial Revenues of original Province levied within new Province to be subject to appropriation of Provincial Council of new Province. XIV. All the Revenues arising from taxes, duties, rates, and imposts, levied, received, or otherwise howsoever arising, within any province established under this Act, which, at the time of the establish-, ment of such Province, shall be subject to the appropriation of the Provincial Council of any Province of which such new Province shall have formed a part, shall, fronf and after the establishment of such new Province, be payable and paid to the Treasurer thereof, for the public uses thereof, and shall be subject to the appropriation of the Provincial Council of such new Province. Apportionment between original Province and new Province of the charge of the public debt of original Province. XV. Every Province established under this Act shall contribute from its Revenue to the payment of the Interest and Sinking Fund, on such part of the loan raised under the Act of Assembly intituled "The New Zealand Loan Act, 1856," as shall be a special charge upon the Revenues of the Province of which such District shall have formed a part, and also to the payment of the interest on the amount, at the time of the establishment of such new Province, of the Permanent Debt of such original Province, rateably, according to the proportion which the annual aggre-_ gate of the sums payable to the Treasurer of such new Province, under the- Acts of Assembly, respectively intituled "The, Surplus Revenues Act, 1858," and "The Land Revenue Appropriation Act, 1858,"