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Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
13th December, 1854.

HIS Excellency the Officer Administering
the Government having been pleased to
approve of the following Bye Laws for the
Hundred of Auckland, has directed that the
same be published for general information.
These Bye Laws will come into operation
on the 1st February, 1855, according to the
provision of the Act.

By His Excellency's command.
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

HUNDRED OF AUCKLAND.

In pursuance of the powers conferred by an
Act of the Legislative Council of New Zea-
land, 13 Vic., No. 1, Session 10, intituled—
An Ordinance to regulate the occupation of
Waste Lands of the Crown, in the Province of
New Ulster,—as also by an Act of the Legis-
lative Council, 15 Vic., Session 11, No. 10,
intituled—An Ordinance to amend the Crown
Lands Ordinance, No. I, Session 10, and to
extend the operation thereof, to the islands of
New Zealand. We, the undersigned Wardens
for the time being, of the Hundred of Auck-
land, do make the following Bye Laws, for the
regulations of the said Hundred, agreeable to
the provisions of the aforesaid recited Ordi-
nances.

No. 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 owners registered or returned brand,
under a penalty of two shillings and sixpence
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 Sixpence per quarter, and for each and
   every head of Sheep the sum of Threepence
   per quarter, payable quarterly in advance, and
   that cattle for any portion of time within any
   quarter, shall be chargeable and paid for as if
   running the entire quarter.

3. That the Assessment hereby made shall
   be paid to the Wardens of the said Hundred,
   quarterly in advance; at their office, on the
   first day of every quarter, commencing in
   January.

4. That all persons depasturing cattle as
   aforesaid, shall, in the first week of January,
   April, July, and October, give notice in writ-
   ing, duly signed by him or her, to the Ranger
   for the time being of the said Hundred, or
   other authorised person, of the number of cat-
   tle then running, and bearing his or her
   brand, and being bona fide his or her pro-
   perty, as also of the number of cattle if any,
   hired of and from any other person, and whom,
   and particulars of the brands any such hired
   cattle may bear; the said return to be left
   at the office of the Wardens for the aforesaid
   Hundred, at the residence of the Poundkeeper
   at Newmarket, near Hobson's Bridge, under a
   penalty of ten shillings (10s.) for the first
   omission, and one pound (£1) for every fur-
   ther omission.

5. That in case any person duly licensed or
   otherwise lawfully authorised to depasture cat-
   tle as aforesaid, shall have in his possession
   any cattle hired of, or from any other person,
   such other person being licensed or authorised
   to depasture cattle within the said Hundred,
   such hired cattle shall be branded with the re-
   gistered brand of the real 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 run any 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 re-
   quired by the Ranger or any other person
   duly authorised by the Wardens of the afore-
   said Hundred, give in writing or otherwise,
   as the Ranger, or such person authorised
   may require, full and correct information of
   the number of cattle running on his or her
   account, and whether hired or otherwise, as
   also the part of the Hundred on which and
   where last seen, and any other information re-
   lating thereto, which the Ranger or such
   aforesaid authorised person shall ask for or
   require, and any person refusing to give such
   information or giving false or evasive informa-
   tion, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five
   Pounds (£5), for each and every such of-
   fence.

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 ac-
   count of the apportionment made by the
   Wardens to him or her, or making any collu-
   sive agreement of any kind, with a view to im-
   pose upon the Wardens, or the Ranger, or to
   defeat the fair and just provisions of the Ordi-
   nance above referred to, shall for the first
   offence forfeit and pay the sum of Forty shil-
   lings (40s.), for the second offence Four
   Pounds (£4), for the third and every further
   offence the sum of Five Pounds (£5.)

9. That no entire male cattle, great or
   small, be allowed to run upon any part of the
   said waste lands, without the consent in writ-
   ing of two of the Wardens, at least, under a
   penalty of Twenty shillings (20s.), for each
   and every offence, and any entire male cattle
   found upon the said waste lands without con-
   sent as aforesaid, shall be deemed and treated
   as cattle trespassing.

10. That any person worrying cattle, by
    driving them with dogs or otherwise, off the
    said waste lands, or other unenclosed lands,
    not in the lawful occupation of the person so
    driving off such cattle, shall forfeit and pay
    the sum of Two Pounds (£2), for the first