Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 18

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✨ Proclamation of Infected District

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,
EDWARD JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XV. TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1868. No. XVIII.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, Esq., 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 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, Esq., 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in the said Governor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations issued by the Governor on the Eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty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 it has been made to appear to me that the disease called Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out amongst cattle in that portion of the Province of Canterbury hereinafter described.

Now, therefore, I, the said WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE, do hereby declare all that the said portion of the Province to be an Infected District within the meaning of the said Act; that is to say all that portion of the Province of Canterbury north and east of the line described as follows, viz:—Commencing at the junction of the Waimakariri River with the sea, thence following the left bank of that river to the junction of the Poulter branch; thence up the left bank of the Poulter to its source, and thence in a direct line to the summit of the Teremakau saddle; and I do hereby make the following Regulations for the destruction of diseased

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