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Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

Vol. XIII.] MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1864. [No. 24.

PROCLAMATION.

By Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.

WHEREAS, by a warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the fifteenth day of September, 1863, the said Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, delegated to the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland certain powers conferred upon him by the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” subject to certain regulations to be made by the Governor in Council under the said recited Act;

Now, therefore, I, Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in pursuance of such delegation, do hereby proclaim and declare that from and after the day of the date hereof, the Province of Auckland shall be and be deemed to be an “Infected District,” within the meaning of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.” And in further pursuance of such delegation, I, the said Superintendent, do hereby make and ordain the following Regulations, which shall be in force in the said District until further notice.

REGULATIONS.

1. The said proclaimed district shall, for the purposes of the said Act, be called and known as the “Auckland District.”

2. Any person who shall knowingly or wilfully drive over or along any road or highway cattle which may be infected with any infectious or contagious disease, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £200.

3. Any person who shall knowingly keep in his possession or on his premises any cattle so infected and shall not give notice to some Inspector appointed under the said Act, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding £200.

4. It shall be lawful for any Inspector appointed under the said Act to enter upon all or any lands in any district which may have been declared to be an infected district in pursuance of the said Act, for the purpose of inspecting any cattle which may be on such lands; and if any such Inspector shall find any cattle on such lands infected as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for him to give notice thereof to the owner of any such cattle, or the person having charge of the same, or the occupier of the lands on which such cattle may be running or depasturing, and shall at the same time require any of such persons to forthwith destroy any such cattle, and to bury or burn the carcasses thereof to the satisfaction of such Inspector. And if any person being thereto lawfully required shall refuse to carry out such direction or requisition, or shall neglect to do so within a reasonable time after being so required, he shall forfeit and pay any penalty not exceeding £200.

5. If any person shall refuse or neglect to kill or bury any such cattle as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any Inspector duly appointed under the said Act to take such steps as to him shall seem fit for destroying such cattle, and burying the carcasses thereof; and all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by any such Inspector in killing or burying any such cattle shall be paid by the person so neglecting or refusing to kill or bury such cattle, and shall be recovered in addition and by the same means as any penalty inflicted by the said Act: Provided that such penalty, together with such costs, charges, and expenses, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of £200.

6. It shall be lawful for any Inspector appointed under the said Act to take such steps as to him shall seem fit for the destruction of any cattle found on such lands infected as aforesaid.