THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
591

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of December, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, to order and
direct that all or any of the powers, functions, duties,
and authorities vested in or required to be performed
by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any Pro-
vince or other District of the Colony, shall be
exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any
such Province, or by any other person the Governor
may think fit; and thereupon such functions, powers,
duties, and authorities may, by such Superintendent
or other person, be exercised or performed within the
Province or other District of the Colony specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the
power and authority for that purpose vested in him,
doth hereby order and direct that all the powers,
functions, duties, and authorities vested in or
required to be performed by the Governor, or the
Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by
"The Lunatics Act, 1868," within the Province of
Otago, shall be exercised by the Superintendent of
such Province.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of December, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Lunatics Act, 1868," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor
in Council, from time to time, to order and direct
that all or any of the powers, functions, duties, and
authorities vested in or required to be performed
by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or the
Colonial Secretary, by the said Act, within any Pro-
vince or other District of the Colony, shall be
exercised or performed by the Superintendent of any
such Province, or by any other person the Governor
may think fit; and thereupon such functions, powers,
duties, and authorities may, by such Superintendent
or other person, be exercised or performed within the
Province or other District of the Colony specified:

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Colony, in pursuance and in exercise of the
power and authority for that purpose vested in him,
doth hereby order and direct that all the powers,
functions, duties, and authorities vested in or
required to be performed by the Governor, or the
Governor in Council, or the Colonial Secretary, by
"The Lunatics Act, 1868," within the Province of
Southland, shall be exercised by the Superintendent
of such Province.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
second day of December, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act Amend-
ment Act, 1865," it is enacted that the
Governor may, by any Order in Council, from time
to time annul, make void, or alter or vary and make
anew, any Orders in Council, regulations, appoint-
ments, or prohibitory or other declarations made and
published by the Governor under the authority of
"The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," or "The Diseased
Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," or by the Super-
intendent of any Province under or in pursuance of
any power delegated to him under any of the powers
of delegation contained in the said Acts: And whereas
William Rolleston, Esq., the Superintendent of the
Province of Canterbury, by a Proclamation made the
sixth day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette on the eleventh day of November, 1868, did
proclaim and declare certain portions of the Province
of Canterbury to be infected districts, and did make
the regulations therein contained for the destruction
of diseased cattle and for preventing the further
spread of disease: And whereas it is expedient that
the said regulations should be altered and varied in
certain respects:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance and in exercise of all powers and authori-
ties for that purpose vested in him, doth hereby order
that the said regulations shall be altered and varied
in manner hereinafter mentioned—that is to say,
wherever in and by the said regulations a penalty is
imposed of any sum not exceeding a sum specified,
the said regulations shall be read and construed as if
a penalty of fixed amount (being the amount named
as the sum which the penalty must not exceed) had
been in and by the said regulations in such case
imposed; and doth further order that this Order in
Council shall take effect from and after the twelfth
day of December, 1868.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
TO WILLIAM ROLLESTON, ESQUIRE, SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, AND TO
ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
GREETING:

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the
sixth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette on the eleventh day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, William
Rolleston, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province
of Canterbury, under the powers for that purpose
vested in him by "The Diseased Cattle Act Amend-
ment Act, 1865," did make the regulations and
prohibitory declarations therein contained: And
whereas by an Order in Council, bearing even date
herewith, the said regulations were altered and
varied, in accordance with the provisions of the Act
aforesaid, as in the said Order mentioned:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby notify my
assent to the said regulations and prohibitory
declarations contained in the said Proclamation of
the sixth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight, subject to the alterations
made by the Order in Council aforesaid.