✨ Proclamation on Cattle Trespass
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF NEW MUNSTER.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto 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 Excellency’s Command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. II. WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1849. [No. 22.]
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Edward John Eyre, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster, in the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by Ordinances recently enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 27, entitled “An Ordinance to repeal the Cattle Trespass Ordinance; and the Cattle Trespass Amendment Ordinance; and to provide for the summary recovery of compensation for damage done by Cattle trespassing,” it is amongst other things enacted, that “If any Cattle shall be found wandering at large in any street, or public place within the limits of any town or village, which shall be proclaimed by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor to come within the operation of this present provision, the owners thereof shall forfeit and pay for every head of cattle so wandering any sum not exceeding Five Shillings, to be recovered in a summary way; and it is also further provided that, for the purposes of this Ordinance, the word Cattle shall be taken to include horned or neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, and swine.”
Now therefore I, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster aforesaid, in pursuance of the authority by the said in part recited Ordinance me invested, do hereby by proclamation declare that on and after the First day of October, 1849, all that portion of the Town of Akaroa bounded on the North by the River which runs through Hayman’s Valley to the “Boat” on the beach by the southern extremity of C. B. Robinson’s paddock fence, also by the southern extremities of Malachi McKenna’s and James Reid’s present cultivations; on the East by an almost direct line from the North bound including the present cultivations of Eli Barrian, Pierre Joseph Rousoleau, Francois Lelieve, and Francois Melmauche, and from thence in a direct line to the south-eastern extremity of James Reid’s cultivation; and on the West by the harbour; shall come
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New Munster Gazette 1849, No 22
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⚖️ Proclamation on Cattle Trespass Ordinance
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement14 September 1849
Proclamation, Cattle Trespass, Ordinance, Akaroa, New Munster
8 names identified
- Edward John Eyre (Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor), Issued proclamation
- C. B. Robinson, Mentioned in boundary description
- Malachi McKenna, Mentioned in boundary description
- James Reid, Mentioned in boundary description
- Eli Barrian, Mentioned in boundary description
- Pierre Joseph Rousoleau, Mentioned in boundary description
- Francois Lelieve, Mentioned in boundary description
- Francois Melmauche, Mentioned in boundary description
- Edward John Eyre, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Munster
- Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary