Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, May 14th, 1850.

HIS Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased to direct the publication for general information of the following Bye Laws, which have received His Excellency’s assent, and which will come into operation on the fourth June Twenty days after the publication of the Act.

By His Excellency’s command,
Andrew Sinclair,
Colonial Secretary.

BYE LAWS FOR THE HUNDRED OF AUCKLAND.

In pursuance of the powers conferred by an Act of the Legislative Council of New Zealand (13 Vict. Sess. 10, No. 1), intituled “An Act to Regulate the Occupation of Waste Lands of the Crown in the Province of New Ulster,” we, the undersigned Wardens (for the time being) of the Hundred of Auckland, do make the following Bye Laws:—

1. That all Cattle depastured on the aforesaid Waste Lands of the Crown shall be branded on some conspicuous part of the body with the initials of the owner’s christian and surname, in letters of not less than four (4) inches in length, in their ordinary position and form, and of corresponding proportions, under a penalty of 7s. 6d. per head for each and every omission.

2. That each and every person who shall depasture cattle on such waste lands, shall be assessed, and is and are hereby assessed, for each and every head of Great Cattle, the sum of four (4) pence per month, and for each and every head of small cattle, the sum of one (1) penny per month, and that cattle running for any portion of time within any month shall be chargeable and paid for as if running the entire month.

3. That the assessment hereby made shall be paid to the Ranger of the said Hundred, within each and every month.

4. That all persons depasturing cattle as aforesaid, shall in the first week of each and every month give notice in writing, duly signed by him or herself, to the Ranger for the time being of the said Hundred, of the number of cattle then running, and bearing his or her brand, and being bona-fide his or her property; as also of the number of cattle (if any) hired of or from any other person, and whom, and particulars of the brand; any such hired cattle may bear, under a penalty of 40s. for the first omission, and five (5) pounds for every further omission.

5. That in case any person duly licensed, or otherwise lawfully authorized to depasture cattle as aforesaid, shall have in his possession any cattle hired of or from any other person, such other person being licensed or authorized to depasture cattle within the said Hundred, such hired cattle shall be branded with the initials of the christian and surname of the owner, and shall be deemed and accounted as cattle depastured by him, under the apportionment made to him by the Wardens; but in case the person of or from whom such cattle be hired, shall not be lawfully entitled to depasture cattle within the said Hundred, such hired cattle shall be deemed and accounted the cattle of the person hiring the same.

6. That no person shall turn loose cattle upon the said waste lands, but such as shall be his or her own property, or bona-fide hired by him or her.

7. That each and every person depasturing cattle as aforesaid, shall at all times when required by the Ranger to do, give in writing or otherwise, as the Ranger may require, full and correct information of the number of cattle running on his account, and whether hired or otherwise; as also the part of the Hundred on which, and when turned out; and when and where last seen, and any other information relating thereto which the Ranger shall ask for or require, and any person refusing or giving false or evasive information, shall forfeit and pay the sum of £5, for each and every such offence.

8. That any person allowing cattle not bona-fide his or her property, or bona-fide hired as aforesaid to run in his or her name, or on account of the apportionment made by the Wardens to him or her, or making any collusive agreement of any kind with a view to impose upon the Wardens or the Ranger, or to defeat the fair and just provisions of the Ordinance above referred to, shall for the first offence forfeit and pay the sum of forty shillings; for the second offence, four (4) pounds; for the third and every further offence, the sum of five (5) pounds.

9. That no entire male cattle, Great or Small, be allowed to run on the said Hundred.