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REGULATION No. 5 (BY-LAW NO. 1.)

DRIVING OF CATTLE.

(In Substitution.)

[Extract from New Zealand Gazette, No. 40,
July 10, 1871.]

G. F. Bowen, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," it is among other things enacted that the Governor may, at the request of the Superintendent of any Province, from time to time make regulations (as therein mentioned) for the conduct of Immigration under the said Act into such Province, and for the nomination of Immigrants by persons resident therein, and for the distribution of funds provided by the said Act for Immigration purposes, and for the introduction into and settlement in such Province of Immigrants, and for selling as special settlements for any such Immigrants any lands which he may acquire from any Province under the provisions therein contained, or any lands acquired under "The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or the Acts amending the same, and for laying out and allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such Immigrants: And whereas William Rolleston, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, hath requested me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, to make regulations under the provisions of the said Act as and in manner hereinafter set forth:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, by virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the forty-first section of "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1870," and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, and in compliance with the request of the said Superintendent, do hereby make the following Regulations, that is to say:—

Regulation of the Council of the City of Christchurch, under Part 1 of the 13th Schedule of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the said Schedule of the said Act the Council of the City of Christchurch make the following Regulations, that is to say:—

1. The Regulation No. IV., made by the Council, under Part 1 of the 13th Schedule of the said Act, is hereby repealed, and the following shall be Regulations for the purposes specified in Section 44, Sub-section 9, of Part 1 aforesaid.

2. No person shall drive, assist to drive, or cause to be driven, any goat in harness within the City of Christchurch, between the hours of Seven o’clock a.m. and Eleven o’clock p.m.

3. Excepting in the cases in this clause specified, no person shall drive, assist to drive, or cause to be driven, any other cattle within the City of Christchurch, between the hours of Ten o’clock a.m. and Four o’clock p.m., from the First day of October to the Thirty-first day of March, both days inclusive; and between the hours of Ten o’clock a.m. and Three o’clock p.m. from the First day of April to the Thirtieth day of September, both days inclusive.

   (1.) Oxen in yoke, and horses in harness may be so driven within the said hours.

   (2.) Cattle found trespassing within the City may be driven to pound within the said hours.

   (3.) The Town Belt shall not be considered to be within the City of Christchurch, for the purposes of this Regulation.

   (4.) The word "cattle" shall, for the purposes of this Regulation, be deemed to include horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats, and swine, of all ages, and of either sex, and to apply to any one of such animals driven alone as well as to a mob or herd.

Passed by the Council, this Seventeenth day of July, 1871.

J. P. JAMESON,
[L.S.] Mayor.

I hereby certify that the above Regulation is in compliance, as regards the City of Christchurch, with the 184th Section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS INTO THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Any person residing in Europe desirous of obtaining an assisted passage to the Province of Canterbury in vessels under contract to proceed to any port of that Province, may receive assistance as follows:

1. The Government will afford assistance equal in amount to the sum paid in cash by the Immigrant. If there should be any balance, the Government will advance the sum, taking from the Immigrant promissory notes for the amount advanced, payable to Her Majesty the Queen. Such notes will be made payable on demand in the form printed below; but unless the Immigrant dispute the debt or shall attempt to leave the Province, payment will only be required in sums of five pounds at a time, at periods of three months, until the whole debt is discharged—the first payment to be made six months after landing.

Form of Promissory Note.

[Place of making and date.]

On demand I promise to pay to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in the Colony of New Zealand, the sum of pounds sterling for value received.

[Signature of Maker.] A.B.

Note.—To be stamped and executed according to the English law.