Numb. 20.
191

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1868.

R E-PUBLISHED in pursuance of "Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865."

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor WILLIAM SEFTON MOORHOUSE,
Esq., Superintendent of the Province of
Canterbury, under "The Diseased Cattle
Act, 1861."

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," it
was provided that the Governor in Council might,
by warrant under his hand, from time to time,
delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within
the said Colony, all or any of the powers vested in
the Governor in Council by the said Act, subject to
such regulations as he might think fit, and might
from time to time rescind such delegation. And
whereas the said Governor hath, with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of New Zea-
land, delegated to William Sefton Moorhouse, Esq.,
so long as he shall hold the office of Superintendent
of the Province of Canterbury, the several powers
vested in the said Governor by the second, fourth,
fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of the said
Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act pro-
vided, and subject to the regulations issued by the
Governor on the eighteenth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and to any
other regulations to be from time to time duly
made.

And whereas it has been made to appear to me
that the disease called pleuro-pneumonia has broken
out amongst cattle in that portion of the Province of
Canterbury hereinafter described :

Now therefore, I, the said William Sefton Moor-
house, do hereby declare all that said portion of
the Province to be an infected district within the
meaning of the said Act, that is to say : all that
portion of the Province of Canterbury North and
East of the line described as follows, viz., commenc-
ing at the junction of the Waimakariri River with
the sea, thence following the left bank of that river
to the junction of the Poulter branch, thence up the
left bank of the Poulter to its source; and thence in
a direct line to the summit of the Teremakau Saddle.
And I do hereby make the following Regulations
for the destruction of diseased cattle within the said
infected district, and for preventing the further
spread of the aforesaid disease.

1. If any Inspector appointed under these regula-
   tions or otherwise under "The Diseased Cattle Act,
   1861," shall at any time have reasonable grounds to
   suspect that any cattle within the infected district
   above referred to are infected with pleuro-pneumonia,
   it shall be his duty, and he is hereby authorized
   forthwith, or as soon as he conveniently can, to
   proceed to and enter into and upon the place,
   whether enclosed or otherwise, where such cattle are
   or are supposed by him to be, and by inspecting such
   cattle, or in any other manner, shall satisfy him-
   self whether such cattle or any of them are
   infected, or may reasonably be suspected to be
   infected with pleuro-pneumonia, or whether the same
   are free from pleuro-pneumonia.

2. If such Inspector shall be satisfied that such
   cattle or any of them are actually infected with
   pleuro-pneumonia, he shall forthwith give to the
   owner or the person having the custody, charge, or
   possession of the said cattle, notice of which of the
   said cattle he deems actually infected with such
   disease; and such owner or person aforesaid shall,
   within twenty-four hours after such notice, destroy
   the cattle so deemed infected, and shall forthwith
   bury four feet under ground, or burn the carcasses of
   the cattle so destroyed; and if the owner or person
   having the custody or possession of the cattle
   deemed by the Inspector to be infected cannot
   readily be found, or if such owner or person neglect
   to destroy the cattle deemed infected after the receipt
   of the notice aforesaid, any Inspector for the said
   infected district may seize and destroy or cause to be
   seized and destroyed such cattle so deemed infected.

3. If any owner of cattle, or any person having
   the custody or charge of cattle, shall, after having
   received such notice as aforesaid, neglect or refuse
   to destroy the same or any of them within twenty-