MUNICIPALITY OF WAVERLEY. - PROCLAMATION. - New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900) - 16 Jun 1859 (original) (raw)

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Thu 16 Jun 1859 - New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900)
Page 1343 - MUNICIPALITY OF WAVERLEY.

MUNICIPALITY 01? WAVERLEr.

By Hia Excellency Sra William Thomas I

DuNisoNj Knight Commander of tbe Most

Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor

General in and over all Her Majesty's

Colonics of New South Wales, Tasmania,

Victoria, South Australia, Western Aus

tralia, and Captain General and Governor

in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales

and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of

WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of

New South Wales passod in the twenty

scent)d year of the reign of Her present Majesty,

intituled, " Arl Act for establishing Municipal

" Institoiions" and commonly styled and cited

as u The Municipalities Act of 1858," it wiuj

amongst other things enacted, that any City,

Town, or Hamlet, then or thereafter established,

Or any liural District, might, as therein provided,

be constituted a Municipality; and it was by

the said Act enacted, that the Governor, with

t*he advice of the Executive Council, might, on

the receipt of a Petition, signed by not fewer

than fifty householders resident within any such

City, Town, Hamlet, or Rural District, praying

IhjLt the tame might be declared .a Municipality

under the said Act, and stating the number of

the inhabitants thereof, cause the substance and

prayer of Buch Petition to be published in the

Government Gametic; and unless a, Counter

Petition, signed by -a grater number of house

holders^ resident as aforesaid, should bo received,

by the Colonial Secretary within tlireo months

from the date of such publication, the Governor,

with the advice aforesaid, might by Proclamation

published m like manner, tied are such City*

Town, or Hamlet, or such Rural District., to be a

Municipality, by a name to be mentioned in such

Proclamation, and might also, by the same or

any otber Proclamation, define the limits and

boundaries thereof; and that upon such publica

tion the Municipality should be constituted

accordingly : And whereas a Petition signed by

seventy householders resident within the Rural

Districts of Waverley, Boudi, and Little Coogcc,

iu the County of Cumberland, in the Colony

of Now South Will tip, praying thai tbo same

might be declared a Municipality under the pro

vision# of the said Act, and stating that the num

ber of the .inhabitants thereof was twelve hun

dred, wag presented to the G overnor, the substance

and pr&yftr of which Petition were duly published

in the Government Guzcite} m accordance with

the provisions of the said Act: And whereas

tio counter Petition signed by a greater num

ber of householders resident within the said

Rural DisLrietn of Waver!ey, Boudi, and Little

Coogee, waa received by the Colonial Secretary

within three months from the date of such

publication : And wbcrcas the Governor, with

tho 3d vice of the Executive Council, hafy in

c&arcise of the powers conferred by the said Act,

determined to declare by Proclamation such

Rural District# of Waverley, Bondi, and Little
Coogee, to be a Municipality by the same
hereinafter mentioned, and to define tlie Itoiite
and boundaries thereof in the • manner here

inafter defined: Now, therefore, £, Sir William
Thomas DENISON, the Governor General and Go
Ternoj>in-Chief aforesaid, in pnrsuancc of the pro
visions of the said Act, and with the advice of the
Executive Council, do by this my Proclamation
declare that the district hereinafter described and
named, shall be a Municipality within the meaning

of the said Act; and that tbe limits and bonnda* j
riea thereof shall bo as follows, that is to say :—

the AiuNioirALirY :oF\Y?AYSnmrr

Embracing a north-eastern portion of the parish
of Alexandria, in the County of Cumberland; and
bounded on the south from the sea by the north-
ern boundary of the Municipality of Randwick,
being the southern boundaries of J. H. Atkinson's

portions of 5 acres, 5 acres and 23 perches, and 5
acres; the southern and part of western boundary
of E. Bellis' 5 acres ; the southern boundaries of
W. Busby's 2 acres 2 roods 5 perches, F. Kny-
vett's 2 acres 2 roods 5 perches, and H. Wheeler's
two portions of 2 acres 2 roods 5 perches each, to
Arden-street ; by thence by that street to Douglass-
lane; by that lane and Varna-lane westerly to
Fern-street; by Fern-street to its junction with the
Frenchman's Road; by that road, and the south
and west boundaries of W. Roberts' 2 acres 1
rood 33 perches, to the north-west corner thereof ;

thence by a line forming partly the south boundary
Of J. B. Jones' 10 acres, bearing west to the

east boundary of the Water Reserve on the west
by that boundary, forming partly the west boun-
daries of Abercrombie's 5 acres and G. W. Cole's
5 acres, and by the west boundary of H. Hough's
10 acres northerly to the Old South Head Road;
thence by that road to the south boundary of the
reserve at the Light House on South Head; on
the north by the south boundary of that reserve,
forming the north boundaries of B. P. Griffin's
3 acres 3 roods 27 perches, and J. R. Harrison's
4 acres 2 roods 15 perches, easterly, to the sea ;
and on the east by the sea, southerly, to the north
boundary of the Randwick Municipality, afore

said.

And I do hereby with the advice aforesaid^
declare and direct that such Municipality shall
be called by the name of " The Municipality of
<F Warerley "

Given under my Hand and the Seal of tli£

Colony, at Government House, Sydoey,
this thirteenth, day of Jtine, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine, and in the twenty-*
second year of Her Majesty's Reign.

(LS,) W. DENISO&
- lij/ 2fis Excellency's Command,

CHARLJSS COWPEK.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEtf I

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Printed acd Published by TuOua& Utchakds, 6ov<?m

laeat Printer, FLiUfp-street, l$lh June, 1859.