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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 date of publication
in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand at Christchurch,
this ninth day of June, One thou-
sand 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, Regula-
tions, 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 dele-
gated to him under any of the powers of
delegation contained in the said Act; and
whereas by section 5 of the said Amend-
ment Act, “as to Regulations, Appointments,
and prohibitory and other declarations, made
by Superintendents of Provinces in pur-
suance of any powers delegated under the
powers of delegation contained in the said
Act, or this Act, the power of annulling,
making void, or altering, or varying and
making anew any such Regulations, Ap-
pointments, or prohibitory or other declara-
tions 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 Pro-
vince:”

And whereas the said Governor hath,
with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive 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,
do hereby annul the Proclamation issued
by William Sefton Moorhouse, Esquire, on
the 20th day of April, 1868, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette on the 21st day
of April, 1868; and I do hereby make the
following Proclamation in lieu thereof.

Whereas it has been made to appear to
me that the disease called Pleuro-pneumonia
has broken out amongst Cattle in that por-
tion of the Province of Canterbury hereinaf-
ter described:

Now therefore I, the said William
Rolleston, 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 Pro-
vince 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 or
north bank of that river, not including the
Kaiapoi Island, 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 the
Diseased Cattle within the said Infected Dis-
trict, and for preventing the further spread
of the aforesaid disease:

1.—If any Inspector appointed under these
Regulations, or otherwise under the
“Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or the
“Diseased Cattle Act Amendment
Act, 1865,” shall at any time have
reasonable grounds to suspect that
any cattle within the Infected District
above referred to are infected with
pleuro-pneumonia, it shall be his duty,
and he is hereby authorised forth-
with, or as soon as he conveniently
can, to proceed to, and enter into,
and upon the place, whether enclosed
or otherwise, where such Cattle are,
or are supposed by him to be, and by
inspecting such Cattle, or in any
other manner shall satisfy himself
whether such Cattle or any of them
are infected, or may be reasonably
suspected to be infected, with pleuro-
pneumonia, or whether the same are
free from pleuro-pneumonia.

II.—If such Inspector shall be satisfied
that such Cattle, or any of them, are
actually infected with pleuro-pneumonia,
he shall forthwith give to the
owner, or the person having the
custody, charge or possession of the
said Cattle, notice of which of the
said Cattle he deems actually infected
with such disease; and such owner
or person aforesaid shall, within
forty-four hours after such notice,
destroy the Cattle so deemed in-
fected, and shall forthwith bury four
feet under ground or burn the car-
casses of the Cattle so destroyed;
and if the owner or person having
the custody or possession of the
Cattle deemed by the Inspector to be
infected cannot readily be found, or
if such owner or person neglect to
destroy the Cattle deemed to be in-
fected after the receipt of the notice
aforesaid, any Inspector for the said
Infected District may seize and
destroy, or cause to be seized and
destroyed, such Cattle so deemed in-
fected.

III.—If any owner of Cattle, or person
having the custody or charge of
Cattle, shall, after having received