✨ Disease Control Proclamation
Auckland Provincial Government Gazette.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
Vol. XII.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1864. [No. 5.
PROCLAMATION.
By Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand.
WHEREAS an infectious disease known as Pleuro-Pneumonia has broken out amongst the Cattle in the Province of Auckland, and it is desirable to check the spread of such disease.
And 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, that part of the Province of Auckland, lying South of a line running West from the Whau Bridge to the sea 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 of the Province of Auckland until the 23rd day of February instant.
REGULATIONS.
No person shall drive, or permit to be driven, any cattle infected or otherwise over or along any Public road or highway in any district proclaimed under the said Act, unless he shall have first obtained a certificate under the hand of some Inspector appointed under the said Act, certifying that such cattle are not infected. Every such certificate shall describe the cattle therein referred to with a reasonable degree of certainty: Provided that such certificate shall only remain in force for a period not exceeding 24 hours.
Any person who shall knowingly or wilfully drive over or along any road or highway which may be infected with any infectious or contagious disease, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £500.
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 £500.
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...
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1864, No 5
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- Robert Graham, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland