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. XLI. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1864. [No. XX.]

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in the said Governor by the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the Fifteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and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 : And whereas it has been made to appear to me as such Superintendent as aforesaid, that the disease called "Pleuro-pneumonia," being an infectious, or contagious disease, has broken out amongst cattle within the several districts hereinafter described:

Now therefore, I, SAMUEL BEALEY, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that the District comprising the several Provinces of Otago, Southland, Nelson, and Marlborough in the Middle Island, and the District comprising the several Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington in the North Island, are infected within the meaning of the said Act, and that from and after Monday the Fourth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, no cattle shall be imported from the said Districts into the Province of Canterbury, and I do further proclaim and declare the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased cattle, and for the preventing the removal or transportation of cattle from the said several infected Districts into the Province of Canterbury.

I. If any person shall drive or remove, or cause to be driven or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from either of the said infected districts into the Province of Canterbury, such person shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds for every head of cattle so driven into the Province of Canterbury.

II. It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or Police Constable to destroy or cause to be destroyed any cattle which shall pass into this Province from either of the said districts.

III. If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any Inspector or any Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending shall and may be seized and detained by such person so acting as aforesaid, or any person or persons he may call to his assistance, until such offender or offenders be brought before some Justice of the Peace to be dealt with according to law.

VOL. XI—No. 20.