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4. If any owner of cattle which any such Inspector
   as aforesaid has notified to be infected, or if any
   person having the custody, care, or possession of any
   such cattle shall, after the same or any of them have
   been destroyed, neglect or refuse to bury four feet
   underground or burn the carcasses thereof within
   twenty-four hours after the destruction thereof, such
   owner or person aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty
   of ten pounds for every carcass which he shall neglect
   or refuse to bury or burn.

5. If any Inspector for the said infected district
   shall suspect that any cattle within the said infected
   district are infected with pleuro-pneumonia, but shall
   not be satisfied that such cattle are actually infected,
   he may, if he think fit, give to the owner, or to the
   person having the custody, charge, or possession of
   such cattle, notice in writing of what cattle he sus-
   pects to be infected with pleuro-pneumonia, and shall
   in and by such notice order and require such owner
   or person having the custody, charge, or possession
   of such cattle to drive or cause to be driven the cattle
   mentioned in the said notice to such place within the
   said infected district as such Inspector shall think
   fit; and such Inspector may in and by such notice
   direct and fix by what roads and route the said cattle
   shall be so driven, and if any person being the owner
   of any cattle, or having in his custody, care, or
   possession any cattle within the said infected district,
   shall, after the expiration of forty-eight hours after
   such last-mentioned notice has been served upon him
   or left at his usual place of business or residence,
   neglect or refuse to obey such order, or shall neglect
   or refuse to drive or cause to be driven the cattle
   mentioned in the said notice to the place and by the
   roads and route directed and fixed on by the said
   notice, such person shall be liable to a penalty of
   ten pounds for every head of cattle included in such
   last-mentioned notice; and after the expiration of
   the said period of forty-eight hours it shall be lawful
   for any such Inspector, if such owner or person as
   aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to obey such order,
   to seize and take into his possession the cattle in-
   cluded in such notice, and drive or cause to be driven
   the said cattle to the place and by the roads and
   route mentioned and fixed in the said notice.

6. In case any person shall wilfully impede or
   obstruct any Inspector or any police constable acting
   under the authority of these Regulations, every
   person so offending shall and may be seized and
   detained by such person so acting as aforesaid, or
   any person or persons he may call to his assistance,
   until such offender or offenders can be taken before
   two Justices of the Peace, and shall be liable to a
   penalty of fifty pounds.

7. All owners or persons having the custody, care
   or possession of any cattle within the said infected
   district shall within fourteen days from the first day
   of December next, give a notice in writing to the
   officer in charge of the Police Station nearest to the
   place where such cattle are kept or are, containing
   the number of such cattle, the particulars as nearly
   as can be of the place or places where such cattle are
   kept or are, and the brands with which they are
   branded; and if such owners or persons shall neglect
   or refuse to obey this regulation, they shall be liable
   to a penalty of ten pounds.

8. These Regulations to take effect on and after
   Friday, the twenty-second day of November, one
   thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

Given under my hand, and issued under the
Public Seal of the Province, at Christ-
church, this thirteenth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
seven.

(L.S.)

W. S. MOORHOUSE,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

COLIN ALLAN, Esq.,

to be Census Enumerator for the District of Otago,
in the room of John Hislop, Esq., resigned.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1867.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the undermentioned
person, viz. :--

Name. Residence. Occupation. Date.

1867. Leopold Griebel Wellington Tobacconist 12 Nov.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th November, 1867.

THE following Report of a Select Committee of
the House of Representatives in the last Session
on the subject generally of claims for compensation
for losses arising out of war, is published for general
information.

The Government considers itself bound by this
Report with respect to all claims made after the
6th September, 1867, the date of the Report.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Report of the Select Committee upon Claims for Com-
pensation for losses sustained in War.

YOUR Committee report, in reference to the claims
submitted for their consideration, that the following
principles were adopted by way of resolution for
guiding them in the determination of those claims.

1. That, in considering the claims for compensation
   submitted to this Committee, it is of opinion (as a
   principle to guide them) that it is inexpedient, and
   contrary to all precedent in other countries, that
   sufferers from hostile incursions on the part of the
   Natives should be entitled to any claim for indemnity
   out of the Public Revenues.

2. That as a further principle, in considering such
   claims, this Committee is of opinion that no claims
   for indemnity out of the Public Revenues, in rela-
   tion to the action of the defending Forces, should
   be entertained, except for injuries to property result-
   ing from the direct and duly authorized action of
   such Forces for purposes of common defence.

3. That it is expedient that compensation for losses,
   on the principles upon which the same ought to be
   granted, as laid down in the last resolution, should be
   chargeable upon the Colony as a whole.

Pursuant to those principles they have dealt with
the several claims in the manner set out in the
schedule annexed to this Report.

The Committee, however, would draw the especial
attention of the House to the fact that some of these
claims have arisen from the direct action of the
Imperial Troops after the date at which the Govern-
ment of the Colony had requested that the Imperial
Troops should be entirely withdrawn, and they con-
ceive that in such cases the claims should be satisfied
by the Imperial Authorities, and should not fall upon
the Colony.

WM. THOS. LOCKE TRAVERS,
Chairman.

6th September, 1867.