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prohibiting the importation of cattle into the
Colony from such district, and the landing or
driving of such cattle, and for destroying
cattle imported, landed, or driven contrary
to such regulations; and by section 10 of the
same Act it is also enacted that, "if at any time
it shall be made to appear to the Governor
that any infectious or contagious disease has
broken out among cattle in any district of the
Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor,
by order in Council, to declare that such
district is infected within the meaning of this
Act, and from time to time to make such
regulations for destroying diseased cattle
therein, and for prohibiting the removal or
transportation of cattle from one part of the
Colony to another, and for preventing the
further spread of such disease as to him
shall seem fit:" and it is by the same Act
also enacted that the Governor in Council
may by warrant under his hand, from time to
time delegate to the Superintendent of any
Province within the Colony, all or any of the
powers vested in the Governor, or Governor
in Council, by the said Act, subject to such
regulations as he may think fit, and may from
time to time rescind such delegation: And
whereas the Governor hath, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of New
Zealand, delegated to Isaac Earl Featherston,
Esq., so long as he shall hold the office of
Superintendent of the Province of Welling-
ton, the several powers vested in the Gover-
nor by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh,
ninth, and tenth sections of the said Act,
subject to being rescinded as in the said Act
is provided, and subject to the regulations
issued by the Governor in Council on the
15th day of September, 1863, and to any
other regulations to be from time to time
duly made.

Now therefore I, the said Isaac Earl Fea-
therston, by virtue of the powers vested in
me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and
declare-first, that after the date hereof the
several colonies of Australia, that is to say,
the colony of Victoria, the colony of New
South Wales, the colony of Queensland, the
colony of South Australia, and the colony of
Western Australia, as well as the colony of
Tasmania, and the colony of Cape of Good
Hope, and the islands of Great Britain and
Ireland, shall be deemed to be infected dis-
tricts within the meaning and for the pur-
poses of the above-mentioned Act, and that
no cattle after the date hereof until further
notice shall be imported into the Province of
Wellington from such districts: provided,
however, that the Superintendent of the Pro-
vince may allow any cattle to be landed from
vessels from the islands of Great Britain and
Ireland, subject to such conditions and re-
strictions as he may deem expedient, and the
circumstances of any case may require; and
I do also proclaim and declare that after the
date hereof, the province of Otago and the
province of Southland, in the Colony of New
Zealand, shall be deemed to be infected dis-
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and that no cattle shall be imported into the
province of Wellington from either of the
said provinces.

Given under my hand, and issued under
the public seal of the Province of
Wellington, at Wellington, this
14th day of October, 1863.
(L.S.) I. E. FEATHERSTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
J. WOODWARD,
Acting Provincial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, Dec. 29th, 1863.

THE following Proclamation by His Honor
the Superintendent of Dunedin, under
the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," is re-
published for general information.
WM. Fox.

PROCLAMATION.
Under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."
Rescinding Proclamation issued fifth
day of June, 1862, so far as the same
affects Port Stephens and Port New-
castle, in the Colony of New South
Wales.

By the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent of the Province of
Otago.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation, dated the fifth
day of June, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two, John Larkins Cheese Richard-
son, Esquire, then being the Superintendent
of the Province of Otago, by virtue and in
exercise of the powers in him vested in that
behalf, did thereby proclaim and declare that
after the date thereof, all districts, places,
and ports wheresoever, out of the main land
of the North and Middle Islands of New
Zealand, should be deemed to be infected
Districts, within the meaning and for the
purposes of the "Diseased Cattle Act,
1861:" And whereas, since the date of the
above-named Proclamation, it has been
found expedient to remove the prohibitions
thereby imposed, so far as the same relate
to the Colony of Queensland, the Colony of
Tasmania, the Port and District of Twofold
Bay, in the Colony of New South Wales, so
much only of the District of Gipps Land as
lies south and west of the Rivers M'Alister,
Thomson, and Latrobe, as described by
Proclamation dated 11th day of July last;
and a portion of the county of Mornington,
in the Colony of Victoria, as described in
Proclamation dated 6th day of November
instant: And whereas it is further expedient
to remove the prohibitions imposed by the
said Proclamation of the 5th day of June
1862 so far as regards Port Stephens and
Port Newcastle, in the Colony of New
South Wales:-Now, therefore, I, John
Hyde Harris, by virtue and in exercise of
the powers delegated to and vested in me
in that behalf, do hereby rescind the said