VICTORIA. ANNO VICESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIA REGIN^. No. LXIV. An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof. [17th December, 1858.] T7I7HEREAS it is expedient that the several Electoral Districts Preamble. » * of Victoria should be altered so as to provide for a more equal distribution of the elective franchise and that the number of members of the Legislative Assembly be increased Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly in this present Parliament assembled as follows—that is to say: I. The tenth section of the Constitution Act together with the Repeal of Section X. schedule thereunto annexed marked F shall be and the same is hereby Constitution Act repealed. II. The colony shall be and the same is hereby divided into the Division of colony into electoral dis­ several electoral districts specified in the schedule to this Act annexed tricts. and the boundaries of the said electoral districts respectively and the names thereof shall be those set forth in the said schedule. III. From and after the commencement of this Act the several Number of members electoral districts shall return the number of members assigned to them to be elected. in the said schedule and the Legislative Assembly shall consist of the total number of members so returned. IV. Immediately after the commencement of this Act the regis­ Registrars to make out new rolls of trars of the electoral districts of Ararat the Ovens South Gipps Land and electors for Ararat the East Bourke Boroughs shall make out from the general and special and the East electoral rolls a list of all persons whose qualifications are set forth in the Bourke Boroughs. said rolls as being within the area comprised within the boundaries of the said districts as respectively defined in the schedule to this Act annexed and shall submit the said lists and rolls to the justices of the peace assembled at the court of petty sessions in or nearest to the said districts who shall compare the said lists and rolls and certify the said lists Published an a Supplement to the ' Victoria Government Gazette' of Fridays 24ih December, 1858. 8 1858.J 22 VICTORIA. [No. 64. Electoral Districts Alteration. lists which said lists when certified by the said justices in accordance with the provisions of an Act passed in the twenty-first year of the reign of Her Majesty intituled An Act to extend the Right of Voting and to provide for the Registration of Parliamentary Electors shall until New roils after revi- the next general rolls be made out be the general rolls of voters for general roils of the the said districts respectively and the said rolls shall when so certified he as districts &c. valid to all intents and purposes and all proceeding shall be had in respect of the same as if the same had been made in accordance with the provisions of the said last mentioned Act. Registrars to amend V. After the said justices shall have compared the said lists compare and eer- with the said rolls and shall have certified the said lists in the manner tify the same. hereinbefore provided they shall transmit the same to the registrars of the district or districts to which the said rolls respectively relate or belong and the said registrars shall amend the said rolls by striking out therefrom all the names which shall have been inserted in the said lists of persons entitled to vote for the electoral districts of Ararat the Ovens South G-ipps Land and the East Bourke boroughs and the said registrars shall then submit the said lists and rolls when so amended to the justices of the peace assembled in petty sessions by whom the said rolls shall have been previously revised and certified who shall compare the said lists and amended rolls and shall certify the said rolls to have been amended and the said rolls so amended and certified shall until the next general rolls be made out be the general and special rolls for the districts to which they respectively relate or belong. VI. This Act shall commence and come into operation from the last day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine. SCHEDULE. 1858.J 22 VICTOBUE. [No. 6.4. Electoral Districts Alteration. SCHEDULE. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. BOUNDARIES OF THE ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. 1. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OP WEST MELBOURNE.^ N£coflS: Commencing at that point on the north bank of the River Yarra Yarra inter- assigned toeman5 sec ted by a line passing through the centre of Elizabeth-street; thence 5lSmi °r DIS- north-westerly by a line passing through the centre of Elizabeth-street to tnct' Victoria-street; thence west, by a line passing through the centre of Victoria- street and by ;i lino bearing west (excluding the Benevolent Asylum reserve) to the western boundary of the city; thence south by the western boundary of the city to the River Yarra Yarra; and thence easterly by the north bank of the River Yarra Yarra to Elizabeth-street, the com­ mencing point aforesaid ... ... ... ... ... Two. 2. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF NORTH MELBOURNE. Commencing at that point in the centre of Victoria-parade intersected by a line passing through the centre of Nicholson-street; thence north by a line passing through the centre of Nicholson-street, and by a line bearing north to the southern boundary of portion 90, parish of Jika Jika; thence west by the southern boundary of that portion and by the southern boundary of portion 91 to the Moonee Ponds; thence southward by the Moonee Ponds to the site of Main's bridge; thence by a line bearing south to a point due west of Victoria-street; thence by a line bearing east (including the Benevolent Asylum reserve), and by a line passing through the centre of Victoria-street and Victoria-parade to Nicholson-street, the commencing point ... ... ... ••• ••• ••• Two. 3. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF EAST MELBOURNE. Commencing at that point on the north bank of the River Yarra Yarra inter­ sected by a line passing through the centre of Elizabeth-street; thence north-westerly by a line passing through the centre of Elizabeth-street to Victoria-street; thence east by a line passing through the centre of Vic­ toria-street and Victoria-parade to Gisborne-street; thence southward by the eastern side of Gisbornc-strcet and a line bearing south to the River Yarra Yarra; and thence westerly by the north bank of the River Yarra Yarra. to the commencing point ... ... ... ••• ••• Two. 4. THR ELECTORAL DISTRICT OP EMERALD HILL. Commencing at a point on the south bank of the River Yarra, due south from the Gas Works; thence by a line south-easterly to a point on the shores of Hobson's Bay, twenty chains more or less westward of the Battery ; thence by the sea coast to Fitzroy-strect, St. Kilda; thence by that street and the Main Brighton Road to Prince's Bridge; and thence by the River Yarra to the commencing point ... ••• ••• ONE. 5. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF SANDRIDGE. Commencing at the junction of the River Yarra and the Saltwater River; thence\y the River Yarra to a point due south of the Gas Works; thence by a line south-easterly to a point on the shores of Hobson's Bay, twenty chains more or less westward of the Battery ; thence by the sea coast and the River Yarra to the commencing point ... ... ... ••• ONE. G. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF WILLIAMSTOWN. # Commencing on the sea coast at the south-east angle of portion A, section 3, parish of Cut-naw-paw, bounded on the west by a line bearing north to the Stony Creek • thence by the Stony Creek to the River Yarra Yarra; thence by the River Yarra Yarra to the sea; and thence by the sea coast to the commencing point ... ••• ••• ••• ... ONE. 7. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF COLLINGWOOD. Commencing at that point, in the centre of Victoria-parade intersected by a line passing through the centre of Nicholson-street; thence north by a hue passing through the centre of Nicholson-street and by a line bearing north to'the°southem boundary of portion 90, parish of Jika Jika ; thence east by the southern boundary of that portion to the 3Icrri Creek; thence southwards by the Morri Crook and the River Yarra Yarra to a point due east of the centre of Victoria-street; and thence by a line bearing west and by lines passing through the centre of Victoria-street and Victoria- parade to the commencing point ... ... ••• ••• ••• THREE, 1858.] 22 VICTORIA. [NO. 64. Electoral Districts Alteration. 8. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF RICHMOND. Number of Mem- hero of tlio Lc^iB- en Commencing at a point on the Yarra Yarra River due south of the south- !^1P/E !i!$ eastern side of Gisborne-street; thence by a line bearing north to SSfor£ Gisborne-street; thence by the east side of Gisborne-street to Victoria- trict- parade ; thence by a line passing through the centres of Victoria-parade and Victoria-street, and a prolongation of that line to the Yarra Yarra River; and on the east and south by the Yarra Yarra River to the com­ mencing point ... ... ... ... ... -.TWO. 9. THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF ST. KILDA. Bounded on the east by a road bearing north from the south-east angle of portion No. 32, east of Elsternwick, to the Yarra Yarra River; on the north by the Yarra Yarra River to Prince's Bridge; on the west by a road bearing south-east to the northern angle of section No.