Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Fifth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

G. G. Gazette, No. 31, August 16, 1864.

Delegation of the Governor’s Powers, under “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to the Superintendent of Canterbury.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

WHEREAS, by section nineteen of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order in Council, from time to time to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any part thereof, Wardens’ Courts for the administration of justice therein, and to appoint Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with power to act alone or with assessors or juries, and in such manner, and to exercise all or any of the powers therein-after mentioned, as the Governor shall think fit to direct:

And whereas, by the fifth section of an Act of the General Assembly, intituled “The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, and under such restrictions as he shall think fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by section nineteen of the said Act, and to alter or revoke by said delegation:

Now, therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in pursuance of the power and authority for this purpose in me vested, do hereby delegate unto

SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire,

as Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, all the powers vested in me by the nineteenth section of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to have, hold, and exercise, within the Province of Canterbury, the said powers hereby given the said Samuel Bealey, so long as he shall continue and remain Superintendent of the said Province, and no longer, and to have, hold, and exercise such powers subject to the regulations hereunder written; namely,--

REGULATIONS.

All acts and appointments done and made by the said Superintendent under the foregoing delegation shall be provisional, until the same shall have been confirmed and allowed by the Governor; and the Governor shall have power to disallow the same.

The Superintendent shall report, without delay, to the Governor all such acts and appointments.

The Superintendent shall lay before the Provincial Council of the said Province every such act and appointment at the Session of the said Council next following.

The Provincial Council of the said Province may, through their Speaker, transmit to the Governor any resolutions respecting any such act or appointment.

Given under my hand, at the Government House, at Auckland, and issued under the Seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

G. GREY.

By His Excellency’s command,

WILLIAM FOX.

G. G. Gazette, No. 31, August 16, 1864.

Delegation of the Governor’s Powers, under “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” to the Superintendent of Canterbury.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight, Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, except the powers conferred by sections nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and sixty-one thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers:

Now, therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for this purpose in me vested, do hereby delegate unto

SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire,

as Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, all the powers vested in me under or by virtue of “The Gold Fields Act, 1862,” except the powers contained in sections