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PROCLAMATION

By His Honor THOMAS CARTER,

Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the “Gold-Fields Act, 1862,” it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the said Act, except the powers conferred by Sections nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and sixty-one thereof, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or evoke any such powers.

And whereas by virtue of a commission, bearing date the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Grey, at the Government House at Auckland, and under the Public Seal of the Colony, His Excellency Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested, did delegate absolutely and without restriction unto Thomas Carter, Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of Marlborough, all the powers vested in him under or by virtue of the “Gold-Fields Act, 1862,” except the powers contained in Sections nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and sixty-one of the said Act, to have, hold and exercise within the Province of Marlborough the said powers by the said commission given.

Now therefore, I, Thomas Carter, Superintendent as aforesaid of the said Province of Marlborough DO HEREBY in pursuance of the said powers and authority constitute and appoint all that territory hereinafter described to be a Gold-Field under the provisions of the said Act, that is to say All that Territory comprising One hundred and seventy-five thousand acres or thereabouts, situate within the Watershed of the Ranges enclosing the basin of the Pelorus River to that point in the said river as may be determined by the intersection of the said river with a line drawn North-west (true bearing) from the North-western boundary of the Township of Havelock, being the North-west corner of Section one hundred and twenty-two of the said Township.

The aforesaid territory to include only such portions as are included within the boundaries of the Province of Marlborough.

And I declare that this proclamation shall come into operation and take effect on the Fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Marlborough, this eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.

THOMAS CARTER,

Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office, Picton,

June 11, 1864.

IT is hereby notified, for Public Information, that I have appointed the undermentioned gentlemen as Members of the Executive Council of this Province—

A. P. SEYMOUR, Esq.,

C. GOULTER, Esq.,

W. STRACHAN, Esq.,

GEO. FYFFE, Esq.

THOMAS CARTER,

Superintendent.

Province of Marlborough,

Crown Lands Office,

Picton, 11th June, 1864.

NOTICE

IS HEREBY GIVEN, that decisions in favour of the following applicants for Licenses to Depasture Stock, have been given in accordance with the provisions of the Land Regulations of 1st July, 1856.

John Gibson ) District —

Arthur Beauchamp ) Pelorus Sound.

Williams, Brothers, District, Clarence.

Boundaries not to be definitely settled until Plans of the Runs have been sent in, as required by the Regulations.

All Reserves and Freehold Land to be shewn on the Plans.

COURTENAY KENNY,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Superintendent’s Office,

Picton, Marlborough.

IT IS NOTIFIED that the undermentioned Portions of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province of Marlborough as hereinafter described, have been reserved for various purposes of public utility, viz.—

All that piece or parcel of Land being Section No. 456, of the Town of Picton.

A Block of Land, situated in the Town of Picton, bounded towards the North and East partly by Section Number 484, and partly by the Waitohi Stream; towards the South by Sections Numbers 480, 481.