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RETURN of SMALL CATTLE Slaughtered in the Auckland District during the week ending Saturday, the 16th June, 1855.

DAVID G. SMALE,
Inspector of Slaughter-houses.

RETURN of SMALL CATTLE Slaughtered in the Auckland District during the week ending Saturday, 23rd June, 1855.

DAVID G. SMALE,
Inspector of Slaughter-houses.

Superintendent’s Office, Auckland
July 7, 1855.

THE following outline of a proposed Road Act for the Province of Auckland is published for general information.

W.M. BROWN,
Superintendent.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES ON WHICH IT IS PROPOSED THAT SUCH ACT SHOULD BE BASED.

1. The public roads of the Province being for the general benefit of its inhabitants, the whole expense of constructing the same shall be defrayed out of the Provincial Treasury.

2. Such roads, when constructed, shall be kept in repair at the joint expense of the owners and occupiers of lands in the respective Districts wherein the same shall be situate, and the Provincial Government.

3. The Provincial Government to determine from time to time the roads to be constructed.

REGULATIONS.

1. The Province to be progressively divided into Road Districts for the purposes of the intended Act.

2. Such Districts to be, from time to time, appointed and defined by Proclamation in the Provincial Gazette.

3. Maps of such Districts respectively to be prepared, showing intended lines of road through the same.

4. Road Commissioners or Trustees for each District to be elected by the owners and occupiers of lands therein.

5. The Provincial Government to transfer to such Commissioners the management and direction of any public road, or part thereof, in the course of construction therein as soon as such road or part shall have been constructed.

6. Commissioners forthwith to call for tenders for the maintaining of such roads in repair at so much per chain.

7. Owners and occupiers of lands in such District to levy rates for defraying one-half of the expense of keeping such roads in repair; such rates not to exceed the maximum amount to be in that behalf fixed by the Provincial Legislature.

8. Commissioners, in case of there being no tenders sent in, to order the necessary repairs themselves.

9. And if Commissioners should not do so, the Provincial Government may order the same to be done, and levy rates in such district for that purpose.

10. Owners and occupiers of land may levy additional rates for the purpose of making other roads in the district which the Provincial Government may not be undertaking: Provided always, that such other roads shall not be undertaken without the approval of the Provincial Government.

11. Such rates to be paid into the Provincial Treasury.

12. After such payment shall have been made, the Superintendent shall issue warrants to pay out of the Treasury (provided there be funds applicable thereto) for the purpose of constructing such road, of a sum double in amount of that raised by such rates, and paid in as aforesaid.

13. Voluntary contributions to be treated as rates.

14. The rates levied to be at so much per acre; the maximum amount to be inserted in the Act.

15. Such roads, when constructed, to be kept in repair, subject to the same rules and regulations as in the case of public roads constructed by the Provincial Government.

16. No person to depasture cattle of any kind on any public road within a proclaimed road district, without the license of the Commissioners of that district.

Auckland: Printed by WILLIAMSON & WILSON, for the New Zealand Government.