NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signatures, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s Command,
WILLIAM ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XI.] THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1864. [No. XIII.]

PROCLAMATION.

UNDER "DISEASED CATTLE ACT, 1861."

WHEREAS, by the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it was provided that the Governor in Council might, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the said Colony, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to such regulations as he might think fit, and might from time to time rescind such delegation.

And whereas the said Governor, hath with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to Samuel Bealey, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers vested in the said Governor by the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the Fifteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and to any other regulations to be from time to time duly made.

Now, therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare, that from and after the Second day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the Province of Wellington in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be deemed to be an infected district within the meaning of the said Act, and that no cattle shall be imported into the Province of Canterbury from the said Province.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Twenty-second day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s Command,
WM. ROLLESTON,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by a certain Ordinance passed by the Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Ordinance to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Constabulary Force," it is (amongst other things) enacted, that it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to cause a sufficient number of fit and able men, to be embodied to serve as an armed Police Force, who shall be sworn before a Justice of the Peace, to act as Constables in and throughout the Colony, for preserving the peace, and preventing robberies and other felonies, and apprehending offenders against the peace; and that it shall also be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, by warrant under his hand, to appoint Commissioners and Inspectors of such Police Force, or such other Officers as he may deem expedient for the general superintendence and management of the said Force; and such Commissioners, Inspectors, and other Officers, from time to time, to displace and remove and to appoint others in their place.

VOL. II.—No. 13.