THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 279

5th March, 1863), a Stamp bearing the words
"Miner's franchise exercised," was appointed "at
each election as the distinguishing mark or stamp to
be impressed upon every Miner's Right in respect of
which any person shall vote at such election."

And whereas by an Order in Council made in
pursuance of the provisions of the first mentioned
Act, and notified in the New Zealand Gazette of the
5th September, 1865, it was provided that whenever
any person qualified to vote by virtue of clause II.
of "The Miners' Representation Act, 1863," shall
have voted, in respect of such qualification, at any
election of Gold Fields Members of the House of
Representatives, or of Gold Fields Members of the
Provincial Council of any Province, or for Members
of the General Assembly or of a Provincial Council,
the Returning Officer or Poll Clerk shall forthwith
thereafter write upon the Miner's Right held by such
voter the word "exercised;" adding thereto the
date of such vote, and the signature of such Return-
ing Officer or Poll Clerk.

And whereas it is expedient that the two Orders
in Council hereinbefore recited should be revoked,
and other regulations made in their stead:

Now therefore His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, doth hereby revoke the said recited
Orders in Council, and doth hereby direct that the
following regulation shall be in force from and after
the 1st day of October, 1865:—

A Stamp or Stamps bearing the words "Miner's
franchise exercised," and the date of such exercise
on each occasion is hereby appointed at each election
of Gold Fields Members of the House of Represen-
tatives or of Gold Fields Members of the Provincial
Council of any Province as the distinguishing mark
or stamp to be impressed upon every Miner's Right,
in respect of which any person shall vote at such
election.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Regulations respecting delegation of powers to Super-
intendents under "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Wellington, the
eighteenth day of September, 1865.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Warrants under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor, bearing date this
eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-five, the Governor has with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of New
Zealand delegated to the Superintendents respectively
of the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington,
Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago, and
Southland, certain powers conferred on him by "The
Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," subject to certain
Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council
under the said recited Act.

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
New Zealand, by virtue of the authority given to
him by the 14th section of the above recited Act,
doth hereby make and ordain the following Regula-
tions:--

1. Each Superintendent shall immediately after
   exercising any of the delegated powers, notify the
   same to the Governor, and he shall transmit to the
   Governor particulars of all appointments and copies
   of all Regulations made by him.

2. He shall, so soon as conveniently can be, notify
   all Regulations made by him to the Colonial Secretary
   or Chief Secretary of each of the Australian Colonies,
   and cause the same to be published in England in
   the Times newspaper.

3. In the exercise of powers delegated under the
   9th section of the said Act, the Superintendent of
   any Province, may, either in the first instance or
   afterwards, from time to time by Proclamation in the
   Government Gazette of the Province, except out of
   any district proclaimed as infected under the said
   Act, any port or place within the limits of such
   district, and every such excepted port and place
   shall be deemed not to be within the proclaimed
   district, and the Superintendent may also from time
   to time by Proclamation as aforesaid, rescind any
   Proclamation of an infected district wholly or as to
   any part thereof, and also the Proclamation of any
   such exception as aforesaid.

4. In the exercise of powers delegated under the
   10th section of the Act, the Superintendent of any
   Province may prohibit the importation, either by
   land or by sea, of cattle into such Province from any
   other Province or any particular port or place in
   any other Province, or across the borders of a
   Province or any particular part thereof.

5. In all such last-mentioned cases such Superin-
   tendent shall cause notice as speedily as possible of
   such prohibition to be given to the Superintendent
   of the Province from which the importation shall be
   prohibited, and also to the Governor.

6. The Superintendent of any Province may in
   his discretion suspend or forbear to exercise all or
   any of the powers delegated to him under the said
   Act.

7. The Superintendent of each Province shall, as
   soon as can be after the commencement of each
   sitting of the Provincial Council of such Province,
   lay before such Council copies and particulars of all
   the Appointments, Regulations, Acts, and Proceed-
   ings whatever, issued, made, or done by him under
   the delegated powers of the said Act.

8. If the Provincial Council of any Province shall
   by resolution declare their dissent from all or any of
   such Appointments, Regulations, Acts, and Pro-
   ceedings, such Resolution shall be forthwith trans-
   mitted by the Speaker to the Governor for his
   consideration.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

[The following is published for general information.]

Memorandum on the distribution of Customs and Gold
Duty in Western Gold Fields.

THE Grey is chiefly a port for the Gold Field
on the northern or Nelson side of the river;
Hokitika supplies the chief Canterbury diggings;
those at Taramakau may be supplied from either the
Grey or Hokitika.

I propose as an equitable adjustment of the
Revenue question as regards the Provinces, that the
Customs received at the Grey be assumed to arise
from the district included in the Grey basin, and the
country southwards of the Grey basin as far as the
Taramakau River; and that for the purpose of
ascertaining the proportion of revenue to be credited
to each Province under the Surplus Revenues Acts,
the numbers of Miners' Rights exercised during the
quarter (or other period) within the above district
on each side of the Provincial boundary be taken as
the rates for apportioning the revenues to each of
the Provinces.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Approved in Council,
G. GREY.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

4th September, 1865.