596

to be a Gold Field Surveyor and a Mining Surveyor for the Thames District, from this date.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

THAMES GOLD FIELD.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 29th December, 1868.

I HEREBY notify for general information that, from and after the first day of January, 1869, all persons desirous of being appointed Gold Field Surveyors or Mining Surveyors will be required to pay to the Provincial Treasurer a fee of five pounds (£5) per annum, and all persons who have already been so appointed will likewise be required to pay to the Provincial Treasurer a fee of five pounds (£5) per annum, the first payment to be made on or before the 31st day of January, 1869.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 17th December, 1868.

I HEREBY notify, for general information, that George Lipsey has been appointed Inspector of Business Licenses at the Thames Gold Field in this Province. This appointment to date from the 23rd of November, 1868.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 17th December, 1868.

In pursuance of the sixth clause of “The Slaughter-house Act, 1866,” it is hereby notified for general information, that application has been made, under the provisions of the fourth clause of the said Act, by Messrs. J. & J. W. Rountree, for the grant of a Private Slaughter-house License to their premises upon Section No. 10, in the Mount Albert District, at a distance of about 30 chains from the Great North Road.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

An application has been made to the Superintendent by Mr. William Walters, for the renewal of the Private Slaughter-house License granted to his premises near the ‘Harp of Erin’ Hotel.

J. Williamson,
Superintendent.

[From New Zealand Gazette of the 7th Dec., 1868, page 589.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington,
this second day of December, 1868.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Lunatics Act, 1868,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to order and direct that all or any of the powers, functions, duties, and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any Province or other District of the Colony, shall be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any such Province, or by any other person the Governor may think fit; and thereupon such functions, powers, duties, and authorities may, by such Superintendent or other person, be exercised or performed within the Province or other District of the Colony specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose vested in him, doth hereby order and direct that all the powers, functions, duties, and authorities vested in or required to be performed by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by “The Lunatics Act, 1868,” within the Province of Auckland, shall be exercised by the Superintendent of such Province.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[From New Zealand Gazette of the 14th Dec., Page 596.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by “The Lunatics Act, 1868,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time, by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette, proclaim any house or building provided or deemed suitable for the reception of lunatics, and wholly or in part supported out of any money appropriated for the purpose.