✨ Provincial Proclamation
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,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIV.] SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1867 [No. XX.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, April 10, 1867.
THE following Proclamation issued by His Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury, under “The Diseased Cattle Act,” is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.
PROCLAMATION
By His Honor WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, 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 William Sefton Moorhouse, 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in the said Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor on the Eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and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.
And whereas by a proclamation dated the Twelfth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, all that portion of the Province of Canterbury to the west of the dividing range was appointed a quarantine ground under the said Act:
Now, therefore, I, the said William Sefton Moorhouse, by virtue of such power in me vested, do hereby make the following Regulations for the management of the said quarantine ground, to take effect from and after Tuesday the Thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven:—
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It shall be lawful for any Inspector of Cattle or police constable to destroy or cause to be destroyed any diseased cattle which shall pass from the said quarantine ground into any other portion of the Province of Canterbury.
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If any person shall wilfully impede or obstruct any inspector or police constable acting under the authority of the foregoing Regulation, every person so offending shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds.
Given under my hand, this Twenty-first day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.
By His Honor’s command,
F. E. STEWART,
Provincial Secretary.
G. G. Gazette, No. 23, April 12, 1867.
Vol. 14.—No. 20.
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🌾 Proclamation under the Diseased Cattle Act
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources21 March 1867
Diseased Cattle Act, Quarantine Regulations, Canterbury Province
- William Sefton Moorhouse, Superintendent of Canterbury
- F. E. Stewart, Provincial Secretary
- E. W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary