Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, by virtue of the authority given to him by the 14th Section of the above recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following Regulations:

1. The delegation of powers under the said Warrants shall continue to be in force for the period of one year from this date, subject to be rescinded according to the provisions of the above recited Act.

2. Each Superintendent shall, immediately after exercising any of the Delegated Powers, notify the same to the Governor, and he shall transmit to the Governor particulars of all Appointments and copies of all Regulations made by him.

3. He shall, so soon as conveniently can be, notify all Regulations made by him to the Colonial Secretary or Chief Secretary of each of the Australian Colonies, and cause the same to be published in England in The Times newspaper.

4. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 9th Section of the said Act, the Superintendent of any Province may either in the first instance or afterwards from time to time, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette of the Province, except out of any District, proclaimed as infected under the said Act, any port or place within the limits of such District, and every such excepted port and place shall be deemed not to be within the proclaimed District, and the Superintendent may also from time to time by Proclamation as aforesaid, rescind any Proclamation of an infected District, wholly or as to any part thereof, and also the Proclamation of any such exception as aforesaid.

5. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 10th section of the Act, the Superintendent of any Province may prohibit the importation, either by land or by sea, of cattle into such Province from any other Province, or any particular port or place in any other Province, or across the borders of a Province or any particular part thereof.

6. In all such last mentioned cases such Superintendent shall cause notice as speedily as possible of such prohibition to be given to the Superintendent of the Province from which importation shall be prohibited, and also to the Governor.

7. The Superintendent of any Province may in his discretion suspend or forbear to exercise all or any of the powers delegated to him under the said Act.

8. The Superintendent of each Province shall, as soon as can be after the commencement of each sitting of the Provincial Council of such Province, lay before such Council copies and particulars of all Appointments, Regulations, Acts and Proceedings whatever issued, made or done by him under the Delegated Powers of the said Act.

9. If the Provincial Council of any Province shall by Resolution declare their dissent from all or any of such Appointments, Regulations, Acts, and Proceedings, such resolution shall be forthwith transmitted by the Speaker to the Governor for his consideration.

J. DWYER,
For Clerk of Executive Council.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 2nd February, 1863.

THE following “Warrant” is published for general information.

ROBERT GRAHAM,
Superintendent.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY
Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the “Waste Lands Act 1858,” the Governor is empowered from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province or to such other person as he may think fit, all or any of the powers vested in him by sections three, four, and five, and also by section fourteen of the said Act, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as the Governor may think fit ;

Now therefore I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the said power and authority, do hereby delegate unto Robert Graham, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, all such powers as are vested in me by section fourteen of the said Act to be exercised within the limits of the said Province without any limitation or restriction.

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand this twenty-seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT.