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Relevant Legislation

Ordinances of the Otago Provincial Government:
Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865 Amendment Ordinance 1870
- election of first mayor, councillors and auditors
- election procedures
Invercargill Corporation Borrowing Powers Extension Ordinance 1875
- power to Corporation to borrow money on security of rates up to £30,000
Invercargill Reserves Management Ordinance 1875
- vested with named land for purpose now held, and for public recreation
- power to manage named land and all money received

Acts of the General Assembly:
Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act 1865
- powers of Councils, etc.
  -  gaspipes, sewers, kerbs, public health, Inspectors of Nuisances, dangerous buildings, rates, bylaws etc
Otago Municipal Councils Empowering Act 1865 Amendment Act 1866
- section 41 repealed after 31 December 1866
Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act 1868
- power to Superintendent to extend Municipal Corporations Act 1867 to towns incorporated before passing of said Act
- this power may be exercised as often as required
Public Libraries Act 1869
- city or town councils, road boards etc - may adopt this Act with rate-payers' consent
- may levy rates, borrow money, etc for library purposes
- management of library etc
Municipal Corporations Acts Amendment Act 1871
- Superintendent may declare that parts of the Municipal Corporations Act 1867 apply to places incorporated under Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance 1865
- Council to cause plans of proposed works to be prepared and open for inspection; etc
- Superintendent to approve sale of Council lands not required for borough purposes
- conduct of elections
- on petition of burgesses (quarter of total number), Superintendent may divide borough (etc) into wards
Invercargill Public Gardens Reserves Alienation Act 1871
- proceeds of alienation of specified lands to go to utilisation and ornamentation of remaining reserves of Town of Invercargill - under authority of Corporation
Tramways Act 1872
- powers of local authorities - largely re supervision of construction of tramway
Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act 1872
- Council (of any borough under Municipal Corporations Act) may make debentures payable in Australia
Municipal Corporations Waterworks Act 1872
- Councils - power to construct water works etc; detailed provisions for procedures, duties, other powers
Municipal Corporations Waterworks Act Amendment Act 1873
- Council may make debentures redeemable within 50 years rather than 30 years
Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act 1873
- Superintendent and Provincial Council may bring Act into operation
- Council may make bylaws for licensing hackney carriages, etc
Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Act 1874
- Council may make bylaws for licensing hackney carriages and borough stage coaches for ten miles' radius from post office
Municipal Reserves Act 1874
- powers to make reserves for public purposes, includes power to make reserves for municipality
Invercargill Gas Loan Act 1874
- Corporation may borrow money for gas works (up to £12,000)
Invercargill Gas Loan Act 1874 Amendment Act 1875
- Corporation may borrow up to £16,000 for gas works
- Council may levy rates to cover borrowing
Invercargill Municipal Council Empowering and Waterworks Loan Act 1875
- Council may borrow up to £50,000 for water works
Abolition of Provinces Act 1875
- licence fees (publicans, billiard-rooms, music, auctioneers, hawkers, dogs, etc) to go to municipalities (or road boards)
- annual subsidy from Consolidated Fund (£1 for £1 rates) to go to municipalities
Municipal Corporations Acts Amendment Act 1875
- amended provisions for various aspects of corporation's procedures
Municipal Corporations Act 1876
- consolidates legislation



Notes

This documentation has been prepared as part of a project on the archives of the Otago Provincial Government.  Because none of the Council's archives are held by Archives New Zealand, no further research into the background or administrative history of the Council is being done at this stage.

The starting date for this agency is not clear.  It may have been during the period in which Southland was a separate province (1861-1870), or it may have been the proclamation in 1872 of the application of the Municipal Corporations Act.

The exact terminology has not been researched: should the agency in fact be the Invercargill Borough Council at some stage?  Because the agency is itself peripheral to the project currently being undertaken, it is not practicable to spend any more time on these questions.
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Otago Provincial Council.  Ordinances, 1854-1875

New Zealand Statutes, 1865-1876
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