Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1867 – No. 8

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✨ Gold Fields Proclamation

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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF NELSON.)
Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature
thereunto annexed, 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,
ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XV. - NELSON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1867. - No. 8.

PROCLAMATION.

By his Honor ALFRED SAUNDERS, Esquire,
Superintendent of the Province of Nel-
son, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c.,
&c. &c.

WHEREAS by the "Gold Fields Act,
1866," it is amongst other things
enacted that whenever any Gold Mine or
Gold-Field should be discovered and pro-
claimed upon any Crown Lands which at the
date of passing of that Act should have been
held under License or Lease for depasturing
purposes, it should be lawful for the
Governor at his discretion to cancel the
License or Lease under which such Land
should have been held in occupation as
regards the whole or any part of the Lands
so held under such License or Lease, or
with the concurrence of the Licensee or
Lessee to suspend such License or License as
regards the whole or any part of such
Lands:

And whereas by virtue of commission
bearing date the twelfth day of October,
1866, given under the hand of his Excellency
Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor of New
Zealand, at Government House, Wellington,
and issued under the Public Seal of the
Colony, his Excellency the Governor, with the
advice and consent of his Executive Council,
and in exercise of the power and authority
in him vested did delegate, absolutely and
without restriction, unto Alfred Saunders,
Esquire, as Superintendent of the Province of
Nelson, all the powers vested in the said
Governor under or by virtue of the "Gold-
Fields Act, 1866," except the powers
conferred in Sections twenty-two, forty,
forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred
and seven, of the said Act; to have hold
and exercise within the Province of Nelson the
said powers by the said commission given:

And whereas a Gold-field has been dis-
covered and proclaimed upon certain Crown
Lands in the District of the Grey, in the
said Province, held under Licenses by
Samuel Hillier Piko, Esquire: And whereas
it is considered expedient that the said
Licenses should be cancelled:

Now, therefore, I Alfred Saunders, Super-
intendent of the Province of Nelson, by
virtue of the powers in me vested as afore-
said do hereby CANCEL the Licenses bear-

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