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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

intituled "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,"
it is enacted that if at any time it shall be
made to appear that any infectious or con-
tagious disease has broken out amongst
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 the said Act,
and from time to time to make such regula-
tions for destroying 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.

And Whereas by Section the 14th of the
said Act it is enacted that the Governor in
Council may by warrant under his hand from
time to time delegate to the Superintendent
of any Province all or any of the powers
vested in the Governor or the Governor in
Council by the said Act, subject to such
regulations as he may think fit.

And Whereas the Governor in Council
did, by warrant under his hand, dated the
9th day of May, 1863, delegate to me, John
Hyde Harris, so long as I shall hold the
office of Superintendent of Otago, amongst
others the powers vested in the Governor by
the 10th Section of the said Act.

And Whereas by Proclamation under my
hand and under the Public Seal of the said
Province, on the 14th day of January last, at
Dunedin, I, the said John Hyde Harris,
Superintendent of the said Province, by
virtue of the powers vested in me in that
behalf, did thereby proclaim and declare that
from and after the date thereof until further
notice that portion of the Province of Otago,
in the Colony of New Zealand, therein
described, shall be deemed to be an infected
district within the meaning and for the
purposes of the said "Diseased Cattle Act,
1861."

And Whereas it is expedient to extend the
limits of the said district so as to include
that portion of the said Province as lies
between the Shag River, in the said north-
eastern district of the said Province, and
the Horse Range, in the said north-eastern
district.

Now, therefore, I, the said John Hyde
Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to
and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby
proclaim and declare that from and after the
date hereof, and until further notice, that
portion of the north-eastern district of the
Province of Otago, in the Colony of New
Zealand, hereinafter described, shall be
deemed an infected district within the mean-
ing and for the purposes of the said "Di-
seased Cattle Act, 1861," that is to say: All
that area situate in the north-eastern dis-
trict of the Province of Otago, bounded
towards the north-east by the boundary line
of run No. 109 to its south-eastern corner,
thence by a line to the Horse Range, thence
by the Horse Range to the ocean, towards
the east by the ocean, towards the south by
the southern boundary of the Waikouaiti

Native Reserve, thence by a direct line to
Trigonometrical Station L, in the Waikouaiti
Survey district, thence towards the west by
a direct line to Trigonometrical Station O,
in the said Waikouaiti Survey district, thence
by a line due north to the Waikouaiti River,
thence by the boundary of New Hawksbury
Hundred to the southern boundary of run
numbered 80, thence by the southern and
north-western boundaries of the said run
numbered 80 to the boundary of New
Moeraki Hundred, thence by the boundary
of the said New Moeraki Hundred to the
boundary line of run numbered 109 the
starting point.

(L.S.)

Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Province of Otago, at Dunedin,
this sixteenth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four.

J. HYDE HARRIS,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's Command,
THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

Prohibiting the Importation of Cattle from
Gipps Land and Mornington.

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

WHEREAS by proclamation under my hand
and issued under the Public Seal of the
Province of Otago, at Dunedin, the
eighteenth day of January last, and pub-
lished of that date in the Provincial Govern-
ment Gazette, I, John Hyde Harris, by virtue
of the powers delegated to and vested in me
in that behalf, did thereby proclaim and
declare that from and after the date thereof
all the Australian ports, with the exception
of Gipps Land and Mornington, in the
Colony of Victoria in Australia, should be
deemed infected districts, places, or ports,
within the meaning and for the purposes of
the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," and that
no cattle from and after the date thereof
until further notice should be permitted to
be imported into the Province of Otago
from any of the said Australian ports with
the exception of Gipps Land and Morning-
ton aforesaid.

And Whereas it has been made to appear
to me that a certain contagious or infectious
disease has broken out in Gipps Land and
Mornington aforesaid, and it is expedient to
declare that such districts are infected
within the meaning of the said Act, and to
prohibit the importation of cattle into the
said Province from the said districts.

Now, therefore, I, the said John Hyde
Harris, by virtue of the powers delegated to
and vested in me in this behalf, do hereby
rescind the said exceptions, and do Proclaim
and Declare that from and after the date
hereof Gipps Land and Mornington shall