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said Acts: and I do further proclaim and declare the following Regulations for prohibiting the importation of Cattle into the Province of Canterbury from such districts, and for the landing or driving of such Cattle, and for the destroying of 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 Province of Canterbury, 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 Province of Canterbury.

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 Province of Canterbury, 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 Police Constable acting under the authority of these Regulations, every person so offending may be taken before two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds.

V.—These Regulations shall take effect from and after the date of publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand at Christchurch, this ninth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor’s command,
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865” (section 4), the Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time to time, annul, make void, or alter, or vary, and make anew any Orders in Council, regulations, appointments, or prohibitory or other declarations made and published by the Governor under the authority of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or of this Act, or by the Superintendent of any Province, under or in pursuance of any power delegated to him under any of the powers of delegation contained in the said Act; and whereas by Section Five of the said Amendment Act, “as to regulations, appointments, and prohibitory and other declarations made by Superintendents of Provinces in pursuance of any power delegated under the powers of delegation contained in the said Act, or this Act, the power of annulling, making void, or altering, and making anew such regulations, appointments, and prohibitory or other declarations vested in the Governor by this Act, may, from time to time, be delegated by the Governor in Council, by warrant under his hand, to the Superintendent of any Province:”

And whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to William Rolleston, Esquire, so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, all the powers which, by the said fifth section of the said Amendment Act, the Governor in Council is authorised so to delegate:

Now therefore I, William Rolleston, by virtue of such powers in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare that, after the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, all that portion of the Middle Island of New Zealand lying to the north of the Hurunui River, and of a straight line from the source of that river to the County of Westland, the County of Westland, and the Provinces of Otago and Southland in the Middle Island, and the Provinces of Auckland and Taranaki in the North Island, shall be deemed to be Infected Districts within the meaning of the said Acts; 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 Quarantine 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 Diseased 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 may be taken