THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 77

districts, to seize the same and take charge thereof
until he shall be satisfied that no attempt will be
made to drive such cattle out from the said infected
district; and it shall be lawful for any Inspector of
the said districts, or any Police Constable, to seize
any cattle that have strayed or been driven out of or
from any of the said infected districts and to take
charge of the same, and to drive or cause to be
driven the said cattle back into the district from
which they had been driven; and, if such Inspector
or Constable shall deem it expedient so to do, to
keep the said cattle under his control until the
owner or the person having the right to the
possession thereof shall be found or made known to
him.

IX. In case any person shall wilfully impede or
obstruct any Inspector or Police Constable, acting
under the authority of these Regulations, every
person so offending shall be liable to a penalty of
fifty pounds.

X. No cattle shall be slaughtered within any of
the said infected districts for the purpose of sale or
use, except the same shall have been previously
inspected by an Inspector appointed as aforesaid,
and then only upon a certificate signed by him that
such cattle do not appear to be infected; nor shall
any carcase or portion of any carcase of any cattle
so slaughtered be removed from any of the said
infected districts, unless such carcase or portion of
such carcase shall have previously been inspected by
an Inspector, and a certificate in writing given by
such Inspector, stating that such carcase or portion
of carcase is free from disease, and fit for human
food; providing always that the offal, including
horns, hides, hoofs, &c., of any cattle so slaughtered
shall be buried by the owner of such cattle four feet
deep, within the area of the infected district within
which such cattle shall have been slaughtered; and
should any such offal, or part thereof, remain un-
buried as aforesaid for longer than one hour after
slaughter, the owner of such slaughtered cattle shall
be liable to a penalty of five pounds.

XI. It shall be lawful for any Inspector under
the Diseased Cattle Acts, with the consent of the
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, or, in
his absence, of the Provincial Secretary, to give
notice in writing to the owner or occupier of any
farm or run within any infected district upon which
he shall be satisfied that there are infected cattle, or
cattle which have mixed with cattle which are
actually infected, or suspected to be infected, that
no cattle will from the date of such notice or order
be permitted to be driven off such farm or run
without the written consent of the Superintendent,
or, in his absence, of the Provincial Secretary; and
any such owner or occupier who shall neglect or
disobey such order, or shall suffer any such cattle to
stray, and any person driving any cattle from such
farm or run, shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds
for every head of cattle mentioned in the said notice
which shall be found outside the limits prescribed by
the Inspector.

XII. When any cattle have been ordered to be
confined on any farm or run in accordance with the
preceding regulation, the Inspector shall have power
to order that a brand shall be placed on such cattle
by the owner or person having charge or possession
of the said cattle.

XIII. When any cattle have been ordered to be
confined on any farm or run, in accordance with the
preceding regulations, it shall be lawful to the Super-
intendent or Provincial Secretary, if he shall think
fit, to order that the said cattle shall be inoculated
for the purpose of preventing pleuro-pneumonia, and
the owner or person having the custody, charge, or
possession of the said cattle, shall thereupon cause
them to be inoculated; and if the said owner or
person having the custody, charge, or possession of
the said cattle, shall neglect or refuse to cause the
said cattle to be inoculated, he shall be liable to a
penalty of fifty pounds for every week during which
the said cattle shall not be inoculated, from and after
a date to be fixed by the Superintendent or Provincial
Secretary.

XIV. The Superintendent of Canterbury, or, in his
absence, the Provincial Secretary, may give notice in
writing that from and after a day to be named by him
in such notice, no cattle will be permitted to travel
on any road within such district as may be defined
by him in the said notice, within an infected district,
and such notice shall be published in one or more
newspapers of the Province, and be posted in such
places within the district as shall be prescribed by an
Inspector under the Diseased Cattle Acts.

XV. If any cattle be driven into, or be found
straying within, any of the said infected districts, the
owner or person having charge of the same shall be
liable to a penalty of ten pounds in respect of every
head of cattle so driven or straying; and no such
cattle shall again be removed from any infected
district into which they may have been driven or may
have strayed.

XVI. No cattle shall be driven into any sale-yard
in any infected district within the Province of Can-
terbury which has been proclaimed in the New
Zealand Gazette, for the purpose of being sold by
auction or otherwise, without the written authority
of an Inspector under the Diseased Cattle Acts;
and any person guilty of any breach of this regula-
tion shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds for
every head of cattle driven into such sale-yard.

XVII. All owners or persons having the custody,
care, or possession, of any cattle within any such
infected district as aforesaid, shall, within thirty days
after notice shall have been given to that effect, give
a notice in writing to the officer in charge of the
Police Station nearest 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.

XVIII. Every Inspector appointed under "The
Diseased Cattle Acts" by the Superintendent, shall
make a report in writing to the said Superintendent
of all things done by him under these Regulations,
and under the said "Acts, as and when he shall be
required so to do.

XIX. These Regulations shall take effect from and
after the day following the date of publication in the
New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this
third day of February, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

By His Honor's command,
EDWD. JOLLIE,
Provincial Secretary.

PUBLISHED in pursuance of "The Canterbury
Rivers Act, 1968."

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, passed in the thirty-second year of
the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
"The Canterbury Rivers Act, 1868," it was, inter
alia, enacted that "it shall be lawful for the Super-
intendent, by Proclamation in the New Zealand
Gazette and also in the Provincial Gazette of the
said Province, so soon as the Provincial Council
shall by resolution in this behalf approve, to declare