THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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or vary and make anew, any regulations, appoint-
ments, and prohibitory or other declarations made
under "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," or "The
Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865," by the
Superintendent of any Province to whom such power
is delegated, or by any previous Superintendent of
the same Province:

And whereas by "The County of Westland Act,
1868," it is enacted that all powers at the time of the
coming into operation of "The County of Westland
Act, 1867," vested in the Superintendent of the Pro-
vince of Canterbury, either solely or with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Province, by any Act of the General Assembly, or
by any Ordinance mentioned in the Schedule to
"The County of Westland Act, 1868," except so far
as any such powers have been divested, varied, or
altered by law on or since the coming into operation
of "The County of Westland Act, 1867," shall,
within the said County, so far as applicable to the
circumstances of said County, be vested in the
Chairman of the County Council, and all powers
and authorities which under any Ordinance of
the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor and the
Legislative Council of New Zealand, or under
any Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
may be delegated by the Governor or the Governor
in Council to the Superintendent of a Province, or
to any person or persons, may within and for the
County of Westland be delegated to the Chairman
of the County Council or to any other person or
persons, as the Governor may think fit:

And whereas by an instrument in writing bearing
date the third day of February, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette of the eighth February, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine, His Excellency
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New
Zealand, did, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, delegate unto me,
Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of
the County of Westland, so long as I shall remain
Chairman of the County Council, the several powers
vested in the Governor by the second, fourth, fifth,
seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of "The Diseased
Cattle Act, 1861," and all the powers which by the
fifth section of "The Diseased Cattle Act Amend-
ment Act, 1865," the Governor in Council is
authorized to delegate, subject to be rescinded as in
the said Acts provided, and subject to the regulations
contained in an Order in Council of the fourth day
of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 62, of the eighth day of November, 1868:

And whereas it has been made to appear to me
that it is expedient to revoke the said Proclamation
made by W. S. Moorhouse, Esq., the then Super-
intendent of Canterbury:

Now therefore, I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the
County Council, by virtue of the powers vested in
me in that behalf, do hereby rescind, annul, and
make void the said Proclamation, and do further
order that this Proclamation shall take effect from
and after the first day of March next.

Given under my hand, at Hokitika, this thirty-
first day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy.
C. Hoos.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,"
it is enacted that the Governor in Council may,
by Warrant under his hand, from time to time,
delegate to the Superintendent of any Province or
any other person 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 may
think fit, and from time to time to rescind such
delegation :

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the
third day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
by and with the advice of the Executive Council of
the said Colony, did hereby delegate to me, Conrad
Hoos, Chairman of the County Council of the County
of Westland, the several powers vested in him by the
second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth sections
of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said
Act provided, 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 the County of Westland:

Now therefore, I, Conrad Hoos, Chairman of the
County Council, in pursuance of the powers in
that behalf vested in me, do hereby declare all that
portion of the Colony described in the first Schedule
to "The County of Westland Act, 1868," as the
County of Westland, to be an infected district within
the meaning of "The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,"
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 Regu-
   lations, or otherwise under "The Diseased Cattle
   Act, 1861," for the infected district above referred to,
   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 forth-
   with, 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 himself whether such
   cattle or any of them are infected, or may reasonably
   be suspected to be infected, with 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 carcases 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-four hours
   after such notice, such owner or person aforesaid
   shall be liable to a fine or penalty of fifty pounds for
   every head of cattle which he shall have neglected or
   refused to destroy.

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