Numb. 36. 269

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1865.

DELEGATION.
Delegating certain powers to Superintendent of Otago,
under Gold Fields Acts.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight
Commander of the Most Honorable Order
of the Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand intituled "The Gold Fields
Acts, 1862," it is provided that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, under his hand and the
public seal of the Colony, from time to time, to dele-
gate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to
such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all
or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the
Governor in Council by the said Act except the
powers conferred by sections nineteen, thirty-one,
thirty-two, thirty-three, and sixty-one thereof, sub-
ject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he
may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke
any such powers.

And whereas by the fifth section of an Act of the
General Assembly, intituled "The Gold Fields Act
Amendment Act, 1863," it is enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand
and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time,
to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province,
or to such other person as he shall think fit, all or
any of the powers vested in the Governor, or the
Governor in Council, by section nineteen of "The
Gold Fields Act, 1862," and to alter or revoke
any such delegation.

And whereas by section fourteen of an Act of the
General Assembly, intituled "The Gold Fields Act
1862," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, and subject to the provision of
that Act, to make rules and regulations relating to the
terms and conditions upon which Miners' Rights
shall be granted, and the forms of such Miners'
Rights, and of licenses and leases to be issued under
that Act, and the modes, terms, and places of the issue
thereof; and also touching the extent and condition
of any claim, and the conditions under which it shall
be worked, held, assigned, or forfeited; the applica-
tion and use of machinery, and all such other rules
or regulations relating to mining under Miners'
Rights or otherwise on any gold field as he may deem
most beneficial. And whereas by section four of an
Act of the General Assembly, intituled "The Gold
Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863," it is enacted that
it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from
time to time, to alter, amend, and revoke, all or any
rules and regulations made or to be made under the
said section fourteen of the said first recited Act.

And whereas by section five of the said last recited
Act it is further enacted that it shall be lawful for
the Governor in Council, under his hand and the
public seal of the Colony, from time to time, to dele-
gate to the Superintendent of any Province, or to
such other person as the Governor may deem fit, and
under such restrictions as he shall think fit, all or any
of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor
in Council by the said last recited Act and to alter
or revoke any such delegation.

And whereas it is expedient to except sections
forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three of "The Gold
Fields Act, 1862" from the delegation now issued, so
far as the same affect leases to dig or work for gold
within any gold field:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor
aforesaid of the said Colony, do hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in
exercise of the power and authority for this purpose
in me vested, delegate unto

THOMAS DICK, Esquire,

as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the
powers vested in me under and by virtue of "The
Gold Fields' Act, 1862," and under the fourth section
of the Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1863,"
except sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three,
forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three (so far as sections
forty-one, forty-two, and forty-three affect leases to
dig or work for gold within any gold fields); and
sixty-one of "The Gold Fields Act, 1862" to have,