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PROCLAMATION

By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of
Canterbury, declaring certain districts
to be infected under “The 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rescinded as in the said Act provided, and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 Eighteenth day
of September, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five, 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 after the
date hereof the several Colonies of Australia,
(that is to say), the Colony of Victoria, of
New South Wales, of Queensland, of South
Australia, and Western Australia, as well as
the Colony of Tasmania, and the Colony of
the Cape of Good Hope, and the Islands of
Great Britain and Ireland, shall be deemed
to be infected districts within the meaning
of the said Act.

And I do further proclaim and declare the
following regulations for prohibiting the
importation of cattle into the Colony of
New Zealand, from such districts, and for
the landing or driving of such cattle,
destroying of diseased cattle, imported,
landed or driven contrary to these regulations.

I. If any person shall import any cattle
from either or any of the said infected
districts into the Colony of New Zealand,
unless upon quarantine ground, and after
having obtained from an Inspector of Cattle
a quarantine certificate, he shall be liable to
a penalty of fifty pounds for every head of
cattle so imported into the Colony of New
Zealand.

II. If any person shall land or cause to be
landed, or assist in landing any cattle coming
from either of the said infected districts in
or upon any part of the Colony of New
Zealand, unless upon a quarantine ground,
and after having obtained a quarantine
certificate, he shall be liable to a penalty of
fifty pounds for every head of cattle so
landed.

III. It shall be lawful for, and the duty
of any Inspector of Cattle, or Police
Constable to destroy, or cause to be
destroyed any cattle which shall be
imported or landed contrary to these
regulations.

IV. If any person shall wilfully impede or
obstruct any Inspector of Cattle, 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 can
be taken before two Justices of the
Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty
of fifty pounds.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch,
and issued under the Public Seal of the
Province, this Twenty-seventh day of
November, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.

S. BEALEY,
(L.s.)
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,

EDW. JOLLIFFE.
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq.,
Superintendent of the Province of
Canterbury, declaring certain Districts
to be infected under “The 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 Eighteenth day
of September, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five, 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 after the
date hereof the several Provinces of the
Colony of New Zealand, that is to say, the
Provinces of Otago and of Southland, in the
Middle Island, and the Provinces of Auck-