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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in the said Governor by the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Sections of the said Act, subject to being rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor in Council on the Eighteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred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 Auckland and of Taranaki in the North Island, 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 the destruction of diseased cattle, and for the preventing and regulating the removal or transportation of cattle from the said several infected Districts into the Province of Canterbury.
I. If any person shall import, drive, or remove, or cause to be imported, driven, or removed, or assist in driving or removing any cattle from either of the said infected Districts into the Province of Canterbury, except upon quarantine ground, and the authority of a quarantining certificate, such person shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds for every head of cattle so imported, driven, or removed.
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 contrary to these Regulations.
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 can be taken before two Justices of the Peace and shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds.
IV. These Regulations shall take effect from and after the Fifth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this Twelfth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
S. BEALEY,
Superintendent.
By His Honor’s command,
Edw. Jollie,
Provincial Secretary.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1866, No 23
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Declaration of Infected Districts
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources12 March 1866
Proclamation, Infected Districts, Diseased Cattle Act, Cattle Importation, Quarantine Regulations
- Samuel Bealey, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury
- Edw. Jollie, Provincial Secretary